Food Transgressions

Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics

Michael K. Goodman, Colin Sage, Michael K. Goodman, Colin Sage

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN: 9780754679707
• eBook ISBN: 9781317134220
• Topic: Physical Sciences
• Subtopic: Geography
• Index: Geography

Reconnecting so-called alternative food geographies back to the mainstream food system - especially in light of the discursive and material 'transgressions' currently happening between alternative and conventional food networks, this volume critically interrogates and evaluates what stands for 'food politics' in these spaces of transgression now and in the near future and addresses questions such as: What constitutes 'alternative' food politics specifically and food politics more generally when organic and other 'quality' foods have become mainstreamed? What has been the contribution so far of an 'alternative food movement' and its potential to leverage further progressive change and/or make further inroads into conventional systems? What are the empirical and theoretical bases for understanding the established and growing 'transgressions' between conventional and alternative food networks? Offering a better understanding of the evolving position of the corporate food system vis a vis alternative food networks, this book considers the prospects for economic, social, cultural and material transformations led by an increasingly powerful and legitimated alternative food network.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Routledge Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Foreword by Anne Murcott
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• 1 Food Transgressions: Ethics, Governance and Geographies
• 2 Pathways of Transformation or Transgression? Power Relations, Ethical Space and Labour Rights in Kenyan Agri-Food Value Chains
• 3 Of Red Herrings and Immutabilities: Rethinking Fairtrade’s Ethic of Relationality among Cocoa Producers
• 4 Greater than the Sum of the Parts? Unpacking Ethics of Care within a Community Supported Agriculture Scheme
• 5 Polite Transgressions? Pleasure as Economic Device and Ethical Stance in Slow Food
• 6 Eating Powerful Transgressions: (Re)Assessing the Spaces and Ethics of Organic Food in the UK
• 7 Transgressing Retail: Supermarkets, Liminoid Power and the Metabolic Rift
• 8 Making Meat Collectivities: Entanglements of Geneticisation, Integration and Contestation in Livestock Breeding
• 9 Making and Un-Making Meat: Cultural Boundaries, Environmental Thresholds and Dietary Transgressions
• 10 Knowing Brand Wales: Agro-Food Transitions in Firms, Innovation and Governance
• 11 Food for Poorer People: Conventional and ‘Alternative’ Transgressions?
• Index