Towards reflexive localism: exploring the diverse co-creators of alternative food across time in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia

Ferguson, Hazel; Kijas, Johanna; Wessell, Adele

doi:10.1016/j.jhg.2016.12.005

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“…Such an attitude is, therefore, contrary to defensive localism and favours the introduction of the principle of sustainable development not only in the local environment close to the consumers of organic food in wealthy societies but also in economically less developed countries (Winter, 2003;DuPuis & Goodman, 2005). As noted by some authors (Fonte, 2013;Spillare, 2016;Ferguson et al, 2017), it is a process that conditions the dynamisation of local development and is based on the concept of the common good and the concept of Shared Social Responsibility (SSR) and reduces the potential threats to local environments resulting from the negative effects of globalisation. As pointed out by DuPuis & Goodman (2005), localisation is not necessarily incompatible with globalisation and may be open to deployment in a neoliberal "glocal" logic.…”

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Supporting local economic development as a motive for purchasing organic food

Czudec¹,

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Zając

2022

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The aim of this paper is to assess the significance of organic food purchases by consumers in Poland – motivated by supporting the local economy – against the background of other factors shaping consumer behaviour. The empirical material consists of the results of a survey among 850 consumers of organic food in Poland. The empirical material was analysed using Pearson’s chi-squared test of independence and the non-parametric Mann–Whitney U test. The study shows that for a large group of organic food consumers, supporting the local economy appears to be an important motive for its purchase. The only factor significantly differentiating the two groups of consumers (motivated or not motivated by supporting the local economy) was the level of family income. The study allowed us to conclude that among consumers motivated by supporting the local economy, attitudes described as reflexive localism (the motive of supporting the local economy associated with concern for the natural environment) predominate.

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Supporting local economic development as a motive for purchasing organic food

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Zając

2022

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“…Throughout this article, the perspectives, results and recommendations will be critically embedded within the scholarship of reflexive localism (e.g., Born & Purcell, 2006; Cleveland et al., 2015; Dupuis & Goodman, 2005; Feagan, 2007; Ferguson et al., 2017; Levkoe, 2011; Mount, 2012). These are studies that acknowledge the complex, imperfect and relational reality of alternative food networks, local food movements and short food supply chains by highlighting their potential as well as their pitfalls.…”

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Exploring farm‐to‐restaurant relations and the potential of a local food hub: A case study in the city‐region of Groningen, the Netherlands

Smaal

2022

Sociologia Ruralis

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Urban restaurants are increasingly putting local food on the menu. How do farm-to-restaurant relations fit into the local food movement, and how can these collaborations be supported by food policies and programmes of urban governments? Through a qualitative case study in the city-region of Groningen (The Netherlands), this article explores the values urban restaurants, local food suppliers and urban governments attribute to local food, the trust and barriers these actors experience in their collaborations, and their views on the municipality's preliminary plans for a local food hub. In line with the concepts of reflexive localism and values-based territorial food networks, and taking into account the perspectives, benefits, pitfalls and conditions uncovered in this study, a farm-to-restaurant-oriented food hub would need to (1) embrace the complex and relational nature of place, (2) foster reciprocal and practical partnerships, (3) negotiate reflexive and values-based goals and (4) broker between and unburden the involved parties.

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Narrative curation and stewardship in contested marketspaces

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Thorp

2022

J. of the Acad. Mark. Sci.

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We identify value narratives as stories that promote certain product or service attributes as benefits within the marketplace. We show how value narratives reflect benefit attributes that align with alternative versus mainstream market settings. Our empirical focus is local food value narratives within a common local food system with alternative settings being farmers’ markets and mainstream settings being supermarkets. Farmers’ market and supermarket purveyors choose which benefit characteristics to emphasize throughout narrative curation, enabling us to witness strategic narrative use, or what we term narrative stewardship. We find that multiple value narratives express an array of ‘local food’ benefits in ways that create a contested marketplace. Narrative deployment at farmers’ markets is guided by an amalgam of institutional perspectives, while narrative use at supermarkets is dominated by a market institutional perspective. We identify a continuum of value narrative stewardship (promotion-neglect) within farmers’ markets that leaves the meaning and value of ‘local food’ vulnerable to mainstream market appropriation via narrative voidance, dilution, and replacement. We propose strategies for better value narrative stewardship.

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Towards reflexive localism: exploring the diverse co-creators of alternative food across time in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, Australia

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Supporting local economic development as a motive for purchasing organic food

Supporting local economic development as a motive for purchasing organic food

Exploring farm‐to‐restaurant relations and the potential of a local food hub: A case study in the city‐region of Groningen, the Netherlands

Narrative curation and stewardship in contested marketspaces

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