Should we go “home” to eat?: toward a reflexive politics of localism

DuPuis, E. Melanie; Goodman, David

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2005.05.011

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“…Researchers have stressed the hazards of unwittingly conflating certain spatial/structural characteristics, such as those associated with local and alternative food networks, and with environmentally or socially desirable outcomes (Dupuis and Goodman, 2005;Tregear, 2011). Hence we have framed the methodology and explored the data with the goal of revealing more about the environmental and social dimensions of FSP.…”

Section: Food Self-provisioning As a Sustainable Practice: Czech Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe's productive gardeners

Smith

Jehlička

2013

Journal of Rural Studies

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This paper investigates notable examples of sustainable lifestyles in relation to food systems. It explores the surprisingly neglected case of widely practised and environmentally sustainable food self-provisioning in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe. Our argument is rooted in qualitative and quantitative data gathered over a seven-year period (2005)(2006)(2007)(2008)(2009)(2010)(2011). The research considers the extent of and motivations for these practices in Poland and Czechia. The very high rates compared to Western Europe and North America have generally been explained in terms of an 'urban peasantry' meeting essential needs. After reviewing and rejecting those accounts we present evidence for these as socially and environmentally beneficial practices, and explore how the motivations derive from a range of feelings about food, quality, capability and family and / or friendship. Rather than relate these practices to temporal signals of quality and sustainability in food ('slow' and 'fast'), or presenting them as 'alternative food networks' we suggest that they represent 'quiet sustainability'. This novel concept summarises widespread practices that result in beneficial environmental or social outcomes and that do not relate directly or indirectly to market transactions, but are not represented by their practitioners as relating directly to environmental or sustainability goals. These practices represent exuberant, appealing and socially inclusive, but also unforced, forms of sustainability. This case further demonstrates the severe limitations of decision makers' focus on economics and behaviour change, and their neglect of other dimensions of social life and change in developing environmental policies.

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Section: Food Self-provisioning As a Sustainable Practice: Czech Andmentioning

confidence: 99%

Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe's productive gardeners

Smith

Jehlička

2013

Journal of Rural Studies

175

179

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“…One powerful initiative in response to these supply logistics has been to support "food security" and buy "slow food", made from wholesome ingredients that are sourced or farmed locally, and in a sustainable manner, within, say, a 100-kilometre radius of the consumer (Andrews, 2008;Jones, Shears, Hillier, Comfort, & Lowell, 2003). Most food activist discourses make a strong connection between the localisation of food systems, the notion of appropriate technology and the promotion of environmental sustainability and social justice (DuPuis, & Goodman, 2005;Nabhan, 2002;Schumacher, 2010).…”

Section: What's Cooking? Explaining the Food Crazementioning

confidence: 99%

Feeding the Rural Tourism Strategy? Food and Notions of Place and Identity

Baldacchino

2015

Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism

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The humble rural cuisine has now been thrust at the forefront of economic development strategies. This conceptual paper is a contribution to a growing critical awareness of the operations of the food industry and helps to foster a critical understanding of how, if at all, local food and its associated culture can help sustain rural tourism particularly and rural communities generally. It is inspired by literature about the international political economy of food and the many experiences of local food development, and is aware of the contrast between the structure of the industry and the hopes associated with its practice on the ground. The paper thus argues that, beyond the glamour and hype, there are those who gain, as well as those who lose, from the current food fad. While it explains the causes of the contemporary craze with food, the paper also interrogates the naïve expectations often placed in food as a motor of rural development, and as the panacea for struggling rural communities. The empirical data on which this chapter is based are drawn from 18 short chapters explaining the history of various "traditional dishes" from the islands of the broad North Atlantic that feature in a recent food publication.

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“…The scale question in the local foods literature is well-tread (e.g. Winter 2003;DuPuis and Goodman 2005;Born and Purcell 2006). Born and Purcell (2006) in particular ask us to avoid the trap of assuming local means better, since it has no fixed definition.…”

Section: Commodity Practicementioning

confidence: 99%