The quality ‘turn’ and alternative food practices: reflections and agenda

Goodman, David

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“…Thirdly, the local trap obscures other scalar options that might be more effective in achieving a desired outcome. For example, assuming that localisation necessarily leads to more sustainable environmental decisions will occlude the option of, say, a European-Union-wide law that mandates more sustainable agricultural practices in member-countries (Goodman, 2003).…”

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Urban Democracy and the Local Trap

2006

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Summary. This paper argues against the local trap-the tendency to assume that the local scale is preferable to other scales. The local trap is an important problem in the recent explosion of research on urban democracy and citizenship. The paper highlights one strain of that literature, the work on 'the right to the city'. It is argued that the right to the city is highly susceptible to the local trap, although it is not inherently so. As we continue to search for innovative new ideas like the right to the city that can help to democratise cities, it is critical to think carefully and strategically about scale.

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Urban Democracy and the Local Trap

2006

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“…; one that aligns Slow Food's early goals of 'taste education' with its more recent claims of integrating production and consumption such that consumers become "co-producers" involved in acts of moral salvation and ecological responsibility by contributing to the protection and reproduction of lifeways and landscapes derived from a history of social production and circulation. Much of the work of Slow Food, then, can be seen as integrally linked to the formation of alternative agro-food networks (Hinrichs 2000, Goodman 2003, Winter 2003) and, as with so many curves in academic roads, what has been labeled the 'quality turn' (Murdoch et al, 2000, Bridge and Smith 2003, Sage 2003. But where much work that would fall under those labels has adopted an explicitly political economic stance, invoking Polanyi's construct of embededness and looking to the shortening of food supply chains and alternative modes of distribution as one vector of his double movement -the push back against the social and ecological disembededness and alienation suffered through relations of industrial food production (Murdoch et al 2000); the role of more avowedly cultural practices and logics in reconfiguring relations be0tween food production and 2 As part of my work on consumption I have taken Mairtre Fromager classes and found that many of my classmates are people who operate cheese shops, the very people we might expect to already have a detailed knowledge of cheese.…”

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The morality of cheese: A paradox of defensive localism in a transnational cultural economy

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2013

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This paper uses the example of Slow Food International (SFI) and its promotion of artisanal cheese to examine how scale is produced around the defense of particular social relations of production. I argue that attempts by SFI to naturalize discursive configurations of rural/local/traditional express a particular politics tied to the anxiety of 'losing' imagined rural communities. However, SFI attempts to 'save' these communities are grounded not in planning or policy but in a kind of entrepreneurialism that locates the preferred mode of defense in the 'natural morality' of products like cheese, which is associated with the conditions of locale, the presence of communities willing and able to reproduce locale, and the historical processes of production acted out by those communities. This strategy is a paradox for Slow Food in that efforts to communicate the 'goodness' of local product rely on spatially extensive markets and memberships that support a defensive localism through consumption of what they read as (morally) good products. In its apparent defense of localism, Slow Food brings 'the local' into being and, much like the disciplinary writing of Geographical Indications (e.g., AOC), simultaneously 'displaces' it by situating the social relations of production in translocal circuits of regulation and consumption. It is reterritorializing the local in the space of its own regulatory operations, in the spaces of the institutions it is affiliated with, in its own entrepreneurial agency, and ultimately in the ideological domain of its loose network of parochial, yet transnational, members.

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“…Parte-se aqui da premissa de que não se trata de uma questão irrelevante. Mais do que nunca, vivemos hoje sob o signo de um movimento mais amplo -o quality turnque impera sobre o mundo da alimentação em geral, mormente no âmbito das cadeias agroalimentares, em toda sua diversidade (GOODMAN, 2003).…”

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Institucionalização das indicações geográficas no Brasil e na Espanha

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RESUMO O artigo analisa os desafi os existentes, no Brasil, com relação à institucionalização das indicações geográfi cas de produtos agroalimentares, tomando por base a experiência europeia. A recente expansão no número de experiências de INTRODUÇÃODurante muito tempo, admitiu-se que o combate às falsifi cações seria uma condição necessária e sufi ciente para justifi car o surgimento das indicações geográfi cas (doravante referidas como IG) na produção agroalimentar do velho mundo, sobretudo no caso da produção vitivinícola. No presente trabalho, trataremos de mostrar que a realidade atual ultrapassa os limites desse entendimento. Antes, porém, convém sopesar alguns aspectos.O caso do Vinho do Porto é emblemático para introduzir a discussão que enseja o presente trabalho. A produção de vinhos, na região do Douro, segundo registros arqueológicos, remonta ao século III. Transportado pelos famosos barcos rabelos, o precioso líquido chegava aos entrepostos da cidade do Porto para sofrer a adição de aguardente e açúcar antes de ser fi nalmente exportado à Inglaterra. Foi pela mão do Marquês de Pombal que ocorreram as grandes transformações que culminaram, em 1756, com a criação da Companhia Geral de Agricultura das Vinhas do Alto Douro, cujos objetivos eram: assegurar a qualidade do produto, evitar adulterações, regular a produção e o comércio do produto e estabilizar os preços praticados à época. São esses os aspectos que resumidamente aparecem associados ao surgimento, em termos históricos, da primeira iniciativa de delimitação da área de produção, materializada na instalação de marcos de pedra que indicavam as áreas mais adequadas para a produção vinícola, bem como do cadastro dos produtores. Existe amplo consenso de que o caso em tela, que conecta duas regiões distintas da geografi a lusitana (Douro e Porto), representa, em

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The quality ‘turn’ and alternative food practices: reflections and agenda

Cited by 564 publications

References 33 publications

Urban Democracy and the Local Trap

Urban Democracy and the Local Trap

The morality of cheese: A paradox of defensive localism in a transnational cultural economy

Institucionalização das indicações geográficas no Brasil e na Espanha

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