Rethinking Food Production–Consumption: Integrative Perspectives
Rethinking Food Production–Consumption: Integrative Perspectives
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重新思考食品生产-消费:综合视角
DOI:
10.1111/1467-9523.00216
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发表时间:
2002
影响因子:
4.1
通讯作者:
D. Goodman
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作者:
D. Goodman
Following some initial forays in the early 1990's and more recent reconstructive work on commodity systems analysis, there are now further encouraging signs that the consumption turn, already animating other social science fields, is beginning to be acknowledged in agro-food studies. Indeed, consumption matters, manifest in systemic anxieties about food provision and a turbulent politics, simply have become too prominent to be ignored. The chronology of recurrent food scares, epitomized by the mad cow pandemic in Western Europe and E. coli O157: H7 outbreaks in the United States, is by now very familiar. Yet, for all its contemporary prominence, consumption is still very much a theoretical black box in agro-food studies. Furthermore, despite the metabolic vectors so evident in food scares, the analytical categories of production and consumption are rarely articulated holistically. The salience of consumption has been further reinforced by the explosive growth of literature on the so-called quality turn, which comprehends organic production, other alternative agro-food networks, quality assurance schemes, and territorial strategies to valorize local food products. In Europe, this research is contextualized by public debate aroused by food scares and the gradual redirection of the Common Agricultural Policy from narrowly sectoral productivist goals towards more endogenous and multi-dimensional policies of rural development.