<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>Alternative agri-food initiatives have the ambition to build an alternative to the market and industrialization, but these initiatives are nevertheless accused of depoliticization. Scarcely prone to subversion, allegedly they would only address the upper classes and fail to create a movement. An ethnographic survey among these initiatives in a city in eastern France, provides answers to these questions, showing a different definition of the economy re-embedded in politics and territory.</p></abstract>

Alternative agri-food initiatives have the ambition to build an alternative to the market and industrialization, but these initiatives are nevertheless accused of depoliticization. Scarcely prone to subversion, allegedly they would only address the upper classes and fail to create a movement. An ethnographic survey among these initiatives in a city in eastern France, provides answers to these questions, showing a different definition of the economy re-embedded in politics and territory.

Politics Within Associations of Food Production and Distribution. Ethnography of an Alternative Food System in a City in Eastern France

Swiss Journal of Sociology

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Alternative agri-food initiatives have the ambition to build an alternative to the market and industrialization, but these initiatives are nevertheless accused...

Politics Within Associations of Food Production and Distribution. Ethnography of an Alternative Food System in a City in Eastern France

Published Online: Nov 23, 2021

Page range: 451 - 471

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0024

Keywords
CSAs, shared gardens, associations, food, political movements

© 2021 Antoine Perrin, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Politics Within Associations of Food Production and Distribution. Ethnography of an Alternative Food System in a City in Eastern France

Published Online: Nov 23, 2021

Page range: 451 - 471

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/sjs-2021-0024

KeywordsCSAs, shared gardens, associations, food, political movements

© 2021 Antoine Perrin, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
CSAs, shared gardens, associations, food, political movements