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JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
Volume 45, Issue 7, Pages 1460-1483Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2017.1313238
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agriculture; food; practices; institutions; social orders
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The food regime approach occupies a privileged place in the sociology of agriculture and food. However, it is criticized for its structural, universalist and homogenizing bias. From a dialogue between institutionalism and pragmatism, this contribution discusses an alternative framework constructed from the 'social order' concept, which defines the existence of different arrangements of practices related to socio-technical and institutional apparatuses. Both the critique of the 'regime' narrative and the new proposition are associated to a reinterpretation of Brazil's agricultural trajectory. Contrasting with the overemphasized export-oriented plantation/agribusiness image that prevails in the majority of analysis about Brazilian insertion in globalized agri-food regime, this paper explores the heterogeneity of production and consumption practices, arguing for the coexistence of multiple and contradictory ordering processes.
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