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HERO ID
7576880
Reference Type
Journal Article
Title
Alternative food networks as "market agencements": Exploring their multiple hybridities
Author(s)
Le Velly, R; Dufeu, I
Year
2016
Is Peer Reviewed?
Yes
Journal
Journal of Rural Studies
ISSN:
0743-0167
Volume
43
Page Numbers
173-182
Language
English
Web of Science Id
CCC:000371188100015
URL
http:///www.elsevier.com
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Abstract
The aim of this article is to show Actor-Network Theory's (ANT) potential for accounting for the alternative-conventional hybridity of alternative food networks. A review of the literature shows that this has not yet been done. Consequently, this article proposes to fill this gap with findings from ANT research regarding such notions as "market devices," "market mediation," and "market agencements." The theory is backed up by an analysis of a local food system involving five small fishermen and the delivery of fish to 1500 households in the area around Nantes in France. Seeing this local food system as a "market agencement," i.e., a sociotechnical arrangement capable of market action, makes it possible to underscore the many hybridities that compose alternative food networks: those of human, material, and natural entities; the local and global scales; and production and consumption; but also that of alternative and conventional actors and devices. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Keywords
Environmental Sciences & Ecology; Geography; Actor-Network Theory, Alternative food networks, Hybridity, Local food; systems, Market agencements; fair trade, systems, agrofood, actor, embeddedness, agriculture,; standards, consumer, dynamics, quality
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