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Alternative Food Networks - Knowledge, Practice, and Politics (Paperback)
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Alternative Food Networks - Knowledge, Practice, and Politics (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies of Gastronomy, Food and Drink
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Farmers' markets, veggie boxes, local foods, organic products and
Fair Trade goods - how have these once novel, "alternative" foods,
and the people and networks supporting them, become increasingly
familiar features of everyday consumption? Are the visions of
"alternative worlds" built on ethics of sustainability, social
justice, animal welfare and the aesthetic values of local food
cultures and traditional crafts still credible now that these foods
crowd supermarket shelves and other "mainstream" shopping outlets?
This timely book provides a critical review of the growth of
alternative food networks and their struggle to defend their
ethical and aesthetic values against the standardizing pressures of
the corporate mainstream with its "placeless and nameless" global
supply networks. It explores how these alternative movements are
"making a difference" and their possible role as fears of global
climate change and food insecurity intensify. It assesses the
different experiences of these networks in three major arenas of
food activism and politics: Britain and Western Europe, the United
States, and the global Fair Trade economy. This comparative
perspective runs throughout the book to fully explore the
progressive erosion of the interface between alternative and
mainstream food provisioning. As the era of "cheap food" draws to a
close, analysis of the limitations of market-based social change
and the future of alternative food economies and localist food
politics place this book at the cutting-edge of the field. The book
is thoroughly informed by contemporary social theory and
interdisciplinary social scientific scholarship, formulates an
integrative social practice framework to understand alternative
food production-consumption, and offers a unique geographical reach
in its case studies.
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