Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring Alternatives

by Moya Kneafsey, Rosie Cox, Lewis Holloway, Elizabeth Dowler, Laura Venn

Overview

Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food presents a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of alternatives to current models of food provision. The book offers insights into the identities, motives and practices of individuals engaged in reconnecting producers, consumers and food. Arguing for a critical revaluation of the meanings of choice and convenience, Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food provides evidence to support the construction of a more sustainable and equitable food system which is built on the relationships between people, communities and their environments.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781847886187
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	10/01/2008
Series:	Cultures of Consumption Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Moya Kneafsey, Coventry University Rosie Cox, Birkbeck, University of London Lewis Holloway, University of Hull Elizabeth Dowler, University of Warwick Laura Venn, BMG Research, Birmingham Helena Tuomainen, formerly at University of Warwick
Rosie Cox is Professor of Geography at Birkbeck, University of London. She has been researching au pairs and other forms of paid domestic labour in the UK for nearly 20 years. She is the author of The Servant Problem: Domestic Employment in a Global Economy (2006), coeditor of Dirt: New Geographies of Cleanliness and Contamination (2007), co-author of Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring Alternatives (2008), Dirt: The Filthy Reality of Everyday Life (2011) and editor of Au Pairs' Lives in Global Context (2015).

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Contextualising Alternative Food Relationships Chapter 2. Conceptualising Alternatives Within a Framework of Care Chapter 3: Researching Alternative Food Networks Chapter 4: Analytical Description of Six Alternative Food Schemes Chapter 5: Growing and selling food: producers and production Chapter 6: Reconnecting Producers and Consumers: identities and motives Chapter 7: Locating food in everyday life: Consumer practices, care, convenience and choice Chapter 8: Conclusions: Reconnection Through Care