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CULTURAL STUDIES-CRITICAL METHODOLOGIES
Volume 10, Issue 6, Pages 479-490Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/1532708610372769
Keywords
organic food; local food; localism; community-based economics; social movements
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This article analyzes the development of local food institutions from a social movements perspective. Over the last decade, institutions that shorten the links between producer and consumer have developed through a diverse collaboration of many social sectors (farmers, agronomic experts, retailers, chefs, food writers, and several distinct consumer sectors). Some agronomists and rural sociologists critical of the globalization and industrialization of agriculture have recognized this development as heralding Polanyian reembedding of market exchanges in social relations. This article analyzes whether and how local food is a social movement, using new social movement theory as an analytic framework.
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