Governance by campaign: the co-constitution of food issues, publics and expertise through new information and communication technologies

Schneider, Tanja; Eli, Karin; McLennan, Amy K.; Dolan, Catherine; Lezaun, Javier; Ulijaszek, Stanley J.

doi:10.1080/1369118x.2017.1363264

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“…Holmberg, 2017; Jauho, 2016). Other research has explored how European food activists establish themselves as experts, to mobilize collective action in resistance to national and European Union (EU)-level food governance (Schneider et al, 2019), and how women nonactivists frame their personal experience as “natural maternal knowledge” to cast themselves as having the expertise needed to resist state nutritional authorities (O’Key & Hugh-Jones, 2010).…”

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Public Expressions of Trust and Distrust in Governmental Dietary Advice in Sweden

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We examine public trust and distrust in governmental food and nutrition authorities, through analyzing 727 letters sent electronically to the Swedish National Food Agency by lay people. Using thematic analysis, four themes were developed, defining public expressions of trust and distrust in official dietary advice. Trust was expressed as (a) seeking to confirm and clarify dietary advice or (b) seeking official arbitration between competing dietary advice. Distrust was expressed as (c) questioning and scrutinizing dietary advice or (d) protesting and resisting dietary advice. Notably, expressions of distrust employed discursive practices that both mirrored authoritative discourses and subverted official advice, by appealing to scientific language and “alternative” evidence. All letters positioned the agency as the ultimate authority on healthy eating; notwithstanding whether the agency’s advice was to be followed or resisted. Thus, the letters revealed how the same authoritative discourses can simultaneously be a site of public trust and distrust.

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Public Expressions of Trust and Distrust in Governmental Dietary Advice in Sweden

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“…Resistance observed in the food sector in Iran to Nutrition Traffic Light labelling as opposed to nutrition fact has also been reported in Australia, where the industry was against Traffic Light Labelling and lobbied through the Australian Food and Grocery Council However, the two countries differed with regard to the role of NGOs, as in Iran no NGO has been active to advocate for healthy industrial food products, while in Australia, different stakeholders and NGOs acted in the implementation of the “Health star rating” food labelling program . The Food Upfront campaign that attempted to ask the UK government and food industry to commit to introduce mandatory food labeling and make nutritional labeling clear or the Food watch European advocacy group which focused on protecting nutritional consumer rights are two examples of the role of NGOs in this regard which their absent could be felt in Iran.…”

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Development and implementation of nutrition labelling in Iran: A retrospective policy analysis

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Health Planning & Management

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Background: Nutrition labelling is a strategy to promote healthy eating and combat non-communicable diseases (NCDs). The present study aimed to provide an analysis of the nutrition labelling policy and its opportunities to improve in Iran.Methods: Data were collected by 1) reviewing relevant documents and 2) semi-structured interviews with stakeholders through purposive and snowball sampling, continued until data saturation was achieved. A deductive content analysis was used by applying the policy triangulation framework and the Kingdon multiple stream theory. MAXQDA software was used to manage data analysis.Results: Iran, is the first country in the Eastern Mediterranean region which has accomplished to implement nutrition traffic light labelling. The main contextual factors that affected nutrition labelling policy to become a national included health, political commitment, and international factors. Poor involvement of media for public awareness of nutrition traffic labeling, the inconsistency of nutrition traffic light color ranking using food standard guidelines, lack of consistency between nutrition traffic light colors and the healthy/unhealthy nature of some food products and the absence of a comprehensive evaluation plan were among the policy challenges identified.Conclusions: Strengthening the governance for a healthy food environment is recommended to improve the program.Also, establishing national portion sizes for food labelling,

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“…Taylor-Smith and Smith (2019) conceive (ANT-inspired) "participation spaces" as socio-technical assemblages and model them as Socio-Technical Interaction Networks. Schneider et al (2019) refer to ethno-epistemic assemblages denoting the entanglement of laypeople and experts.…”

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Becoming E-Petition: An Assemblage-Based Framework for Analysis and Research

Briassoulis

2021

Sage Open

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Ε-petitions, the digital version of printed petitions, are increasingly being used as complimentary means of nonconfrontational, online citizen mobilization/protest. They attract considerable research interest because they provide (big) data to study e-petitioning and the political and other aspects of socio-spatial issues. E-petition studies lack discussion of ontology, of “what is an e-petition,” implicitly treating e-petitions as “systems-as-a-whole” or, seldom, as relational formations. Acknowledging the foundational role of ontology, Assemblage Thinking (AT) is argued to beget a more judicious approach when e-petitions are employed as research instruments to study the “who-what-when-where-and-how” of a socio-spatial issue and, concurrently, their situated contribution to issue-related decision-making. After presenting the reductionist/essentialist and the nonreductionist/relational approaches to the study of e-petitions and introducing ΑΤ, an assemblage-based framework is proposed that conceptualizes e-petitions as multiplicities comprising assemblages, dynamic compositions emerging from processes of heterogeneous components coming together to serve a purpose. A concomitant methodology is outlined and an illustrative example is offered. The advantages of assemblage-based over reductionist/essentialist approaches for the situated co-analysis of socio-spatial issues and e-petitions are discussed, indicating how they address prominent concerns of the literature, and future research directions are suggested.

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Governance by campaign: the co-constitution of food issues, publics and expertise through new information and communication technologies

Cited by 20 publications

References 39 publications

Public Expressions of Trust and Distrust in Governmental Dietary Advice in Sweden

Public Expressions of Trust and Distrust in Governmental Dietary Advice in Sweden

Development and implementation of nutrition labelling in Iran: A retrospective policy analysis

Becoming E-Petition: An Assemblage-Based Framework for Analysis and Research

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