TY - JOUR

T1 - Varieties of Alterity

T2 - Alternative Food Networks in the UK, Italy and China

AU - Martindale, Leigh

AU - Matacena, Raffaele

AU - Beacham, Jonathan

PY - 2018/2/1

Y1 - 2018/2/1

N2 - By comparing insights from three different fields sites located in the UK, Italy, and China, the authors explore how AFNs, in different ways that are context dependent, are providing a variety of alternatives to the mainstream food system. We argue that “alterna- tives” have both emerged and been constructed through a variety of social, political and economic responses which are dependent on the local conditions AFNs are derived from, and employing the lenses of locality, scale and food materialities, they suggest that alterity across spatial contexts points to a (hyper) generalised typology that may have interesting implications for future research.

AB - By comparing insights from three different fields sites located in the UK, Italy, and China, the authors explore how AFNs, in different ways that are context dependent, are providing a variety of alternatives to the mainstream food system. We argue that “alterna- tives” have both emerged and been constructed through a variety of social, political and economic responses which are dependent on the local conditions AFNs are derived from, and employing the lenses of locality, scale and food materialities, they suggest that alterity across spatial contexts points to a (hyper) generalised typology that may have interesting implications for future research.

KW - Alternative Food Networks

KW - food system

KW - locality

KW - comparative analysis

KW - China

U2 - 10.3280/SUR2018-115-S1003

DO - 10.3280/SUR2018-115-S1003

M3 - Journal article

VL - 115

SP - 27

EP - 41

JO - Sociologia Urbana e Rurale

JF - Sociologia Urbana e Rurale

IS - S1

ER -