Organic food and the plural moralities of food provisioning
Organic food and the plural moralities of food provisioning
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jrurstud.2011.07.004
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发表时间：
2011-10-01
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5.1
通讯作者：
Andersen, Anne Holst
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作者：
Andersen, Anne Holst
该文致力于研究两个问题.第一个目标是揭示有机食品消费作为家庭食品供应的一部分在道德上的复杂性。通过承认这种复杂性，以及确定食物供应中什么是“好的”和“正确的”的困难，这个想法是为了更好地理解有机食物可能或可能不适合食物供应的各种关注点。第二个目的是分析粮食供应者如何处理这种复杂性，使粮食供应能够作为一项日常活动进行。本文分析了丹麦家庭粮食供应研究的实证材料。在理论上，它借鉴了以博尔坦斯基和泰维诺关于道德惯例和交往制度的著作为代表的法国实用主义社会学。分析表明，食品供应涉及几套相互竞争的道德习俗，有机食品与这些习俗的关系往往是不确定和有争议的。然而，它也确定了供应商之间的不同策略，以处理这种道德复杂性在日常生活中。这份文件呼吁在试图改变消费者的消费行为以支持有机产品时要有一些谦虚。向消费者提供更多关于有机食品的信息，可能不会让消费者在购买食品时更容易确定什么是“好”和“对”的。这可能只会增加粮食供应的复杂性，从而增加妥协和务实的必要性。(C)2011爱思唯尔有限公司保留所有权利。
The aim of this paper is twofold. The first aim is to unfold the moral complexity of organic food consumption as part of household food provisioning. By acknowledging this complexity, and the difficulty of determining what is 'good' and 'right' in food provisioning, the idea is to allow for a better understanding of how organic food may, or may not, fit in with the various concerns of food provisioning. The second aim is to analyse how food provisioners handle this complexity so that food provisioning can proceed as an ordinary everyday activity.The paper analyses empirical material from a study of household food provisioning in Denmark. Theoretically, it draws on French pragmatic sociology as represented by the work of Boltanski and Thevenot on moral conventions and regimes of engagement. The analysis illustrates that food provisioning involves several competing sets of moral conventions and that the status of organic food in relation to these is often uncertain and contested. However, it also identifies among provisioners different strategies for handling this moral complexity in ordinary everyday life. The paper calls for some modesty in trying to change consumer behaviour in favour of organic products. Providing consumers with more information about organic food may not make it easier to determine what is 'good' and 'right' when buying food. It may only add to the complexity of food provisioning and thus to the need for compromise and pragmatism. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.