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Alternative Food Networks - Knowledge, Practice, and Politics (Hardcover, New)
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Alternative Food Networks - Knowledge, Practice, and Politics (Hardcover, New)
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 standardising pressures of
the corporate mainstream with their "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 continue to intensify. It
reviews the different positions around these networks from 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. Discussions of the limitations of
market-led social change and its analysis of the future of
alternative food economies and localist food politics as the era of
"cheap food" based on open international commodity markets draws to
a close placing this book at the cutting-edge of the field. The
book is thoroughly informed by contemporary social theory and
interdisciplinary social scientific scholarship, formulating an
original integrative framework to understand alternative food
production-consumption and offers a unique geographical reach in
its case studies.
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