Shifting plates in the agrifood landscape: the tectonics of alternative agrifood initiatives in California

Allen, Patricia; FitzSimmons, Margaret; Goodman, Michael K.; Warner, Keith Douglass

doi:10.4324/9781315237213-8

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“…And yet, like many other academics, I have been skeptical that the production and consumption of high-priced food catering to relatively elite tastes has much transformative potential (cf., Allen et al, 2003;Guthman, 2008;. It is hard not to love a movement that has popularized pickled vegetables and hoppy beer.…”

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Social Change and the Coming of Post-Consumer Society

Brown

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Cohen³

2017

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Consumer society is an unquestionably complex social construct. However, after decades of unremitting dominance there are signs emerging that it is starting to falter, both as a coherent and durable system of social organization and as a strategy for societal advancement. Debates concerning how we can transition beyond present energy-and materials-intensive consumer society are beginning to gain greater salience.Social Change and the Coming of Post-Consumer Society aims to develop more complete appreciation of the relevant processes of social change and to identify effective interventions that could enable a transition to supersede consumer society. Bringing together leading interdisciplinary experts on social change, the book identifi es and analyzes several ongoing small-and modest-scale social experiments. Possibilities for macro-scale change from the interlinked perspectives of culture, economics, fi nance, and governance are then explored. These contributions expose the systemic problems that are emblematic of the current condition of consumer society, specifi cally the unsustainability of prevailing consumption practices and lifestyles and the persistence of inequalities. These observations are summarized and extended in the fi nal chapter of the book. This volume will be of great interest to students and scholars of sustainable consumption, sustainability transitions, environmental sociology, and sustainable development.Comprising edited collections, co-authored volumes and single author monographs, Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption aims to advance conceptual and empirical contributions to this new and important fi eld of study. In particular, this series will explore key issues such as the emergence of new modes of household provisioning, the evolution toward post-consumerist systems of social organization, novel approaches to consumption governance and innovative business models for sustainable lifestyles.The Sustainable Con sumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) is an international knowledge network of approximately 1000 scholars and policy practitioners working at the interface of material consumption, human wellbeing, and technological and cultural change. For more information about SCORAI and its activities please visit www.scorai.org."Climate change, water shortages, and toxins in our food, air, and water. Loneliness and depression. Erosion of traditional values. These are among the problems that experts tell us we must solve for humanity to thrive, or even survive. However, these threats are symptoms of a deeper pathology, namely the desire for endless growth in consumption and the substitution of material goods for human relationships. This book sets out theory to understand how this came to be and what might be done about it, from an explicitly multidisciplinary perspective. The book also provides compelling accounts of exciting experiments in sustainable consumption now underway as people around the world seek to live within the limits of our fi nite planet, and in so...

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Section: Emily Huddart Kennedymentioning

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Social Change and the Coming of Post-Consumer Society

Brown

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Cohen³

2017

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“…During this time, there was also a growing movement of food cooperatives that promoted the value of healthy, local, and locally processed food (Allen et al 2003). These diverse motives and values illustrated the ways in which the organic movement had broadened and had become much more than an agricultural movement, but also a societal movement of 'organic activism' (Sligh and Cierpka 2007, p. 34).…”

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“…Earnings from the farm are, of course, important, but they often are of secondary concern. These farmers commonly comprise counter-culture opposed to "industrialized" (or conventionalized) organic farming and marketing (Reed 2002;Tovey 2002;Allen et al 2003).…”

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Re-Thinking Organic Food and Farming in a Changing World

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2015

The International Library of Environmental, Agricultural and Food Ethics

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“…Allen et al 2003;Holt-Giménez and Wang 2011). Capitalism encourages growers to expand production into ill-suited regions and rely on pesticides to ensure the economic benefits of their capital and labor investments.…”

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