From value to values: sustainable consumption at farmers markets

Alkon, Alison Hope

doi:10.1007/s10460-008-9136-y

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“…Many academic students of food have found that the economic and social goals of local food projects often exist in tension, as with community-building versus profit-making in CSAs (Cone and Kakaliouras 1995;Hinrichs 2000;DeLind 2003;Lang 2010), commitment to agrarian ideals versus scaling-up in the organic sector (Allen and Kovach 2000;Guthman 2004;Fromartz 2007;Rigby and Bown 2007) and social justice versus earning a livelihood in farmers markets (Alkon 2008). In two recent papers, DeLind (2011) and Mount (2012) focus specifically on tensions in how local foods endeavors scale-up to expand their reach.…”

Section: She Noted That Farms Like Angelic Organics (Of the Real Dirtmentioning

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Scaling-up local foods: Commodity practice in community supported agriculture (CSA)

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2014

Journal of Rural Studies

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Section: She Noted That Farms Like Angelic Organics (Of the Real Dirtmentioning

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Scaling-up local foods: Commodity practice in community supported agriculture (CSA)

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2014

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…In this way, FMs may contribute to a move away from a dominant industrial food system to one that offers spaces for alternative "green" economic relationships (Morris and Kirwan 2011;Alkon 2012). FMs can also support rural and urban community development (Hinrichs et al 2004;Alkon 2008;Stephenson 2008;Beckie et al 2012).…”

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“…Our analysis builds on two bodies of FM studies: those examining how FMs are structured and operate (Govindasamy et al 1998;Brown 2001;Andreatta and Wickliffe 2002;Payne 2002;Stephenson 2008), and those looking specifically at the value placed on the source or origin of produce and products on sale (La Trobe 2001;Feagan et al 2004;Gillespie et al 2007;Alkon 2008;Brown and Miller 2009). However, we expand our perspective beyond the value of "localness" or "farmer-only" sales per se in order to explore the relationships between the values embodied in FM's operating structures, as well as those expressed by the FM managers, farmer/vendors and consumers (See: Smithers et al 2008;Alkon and McCullen 2011;Alkon 2012).…”

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Metropolitan farmers markets in Minneapolis and Vienna: a values-based comparison

2017

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“…Cette controverse a été analysée comme un rapport de forces entre acteurs économiques aux caractéristiques d'exploitations différenciées (Gilg et Battershill, 1998 ;McMichael, 2000 ;Allen et al, 2003), mais les variables qui caractérisent les deux partis restent difficiles à cerner, alors qu'il semble relativement aisé de l'articuler autour d'une opposition de valeurs sociales (Alkon, 2008 ;Codron et al, 2006) ou de conventions (Truninger, 2008). Mais, ces différences de valeur opposent des arguments que l'on ne retrouve pas dans la controverse : l'interprétation de la qualité des produits comme « valeur » morale ou sociale ne permet pas de rendre compte par exemple de la dispute sur la crédibilité et l'objectivité des critères de qualité.…”

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“…8 Des travaux ont ajouté à ces arguments des contradictions internes qui viennent limiter le développement du biophilosophie (Alkon, 2008 ;Allen et Kovach, 2000). attachés à un dispositif de certification appuyé sur une qualité prédéfinie et dont ils utilisent les propriétés d'autonomie, de transportabilité que cette prédéfinition lui confère.…”

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Le label AB, dispositif de promesse ou de jugement ?

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2013

Nat. Sci. Soc.

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Résumé -Deux interprétations de la notion de bio divisent les producteurs que les deux notions de dispositif de promesse et de jugement permettent de bien distinguer. La première en fait un dispositif de promesse qui objective une « caractéristique » bio prédéfinie et contrôlée. L'autre, à l'inverse, insiste sur les impasses que génère cette réduction du bio à « quelque chose » et lui préfère un bio pluriel, cadré par un dispositif de jugement. Il se présente comme le résultat d'un engagement ou d'une philosophie qui pense le bio de façon globale et intégratrice et entend soumettre l'économie à ses finalités, plutôt que d'en subir les contraintes. Ces deux interprétations engagent deux régimes de qualification du bio que L. Karpik a différenciés sous le nom de dispositifs de promesse et de jugement. Quoique formellement antinomiques, ils apparaissent aussi comme deux formes dont les interactions confèrent au label à la fois sa résistance et son efficacité.Abstract -The Organic Label system: a promise or a judgement? Organic farmers strongly disagree about the "good" use of the organic label. Two opposite interpretations arise from this debate. The first aims towards increasing and explicit organic quality in order to better control its conformity. The second, on the other hand, insists on the impasse this way of objectivising organic farming leads to. It refuses to reduce organic farming to "a thing" and prefers to understand it as the plural result of a varied range of implementations of a "philosophy" within the frame of a critical collective discussion. The opposition between these two views seems to be better grasped in the distinction L. Karpik makes between systems of promise and systems of judgment, notions he developed whilst analysing the credibility of quality signals, rather than by economic or social power relationships. Systems of promise and of judgment differentiate two formally opposite worlds, a pre-established context of action on one side, and the global result of the continued reflexive analysis of experience on the other. Yet the long-lasting controversy amongst organic farmers shows that they are in fact not antinomic. On the contrary, the certification success and its durability seem to result from the interactions between the two regimes of action deriving from these two interpretations. Therefore, one should not attempt to end the controversy for the sake of good organic farming governance but on the contrary foster interactions between the two. S'informer ou faire confiance : deux solutions et deux ontologies opposées

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From value to values: sustainable consumption at farmers markets

Cited by 109 publications

References 17 publications

Scaling-up local foods: Commodity practice in community supported agriculture (CSA)

Scaling-up local foods: Commodity practice in community supported agriculture (CSA)

Metropolitan farmers markets in Minneapolis and Vienna: a values-based comparison

Le label AB, dispositif de promesse ou de jugement ?

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