What is it about?
This article develops the notion of Radical Food Democracy as the radicalization of freedom and equality through a critical engagement with existing institutions. It contributes to the literature on post-industrial agrifood systems by refining Gibson-Graham’s “diverse economies” with James Tully’s notion of “diverse citizenship”, via a theory of social transformation instructed by Bob Jessop’s “strategic-relational approach”. The article illustrates this by presenting a case study on German Alternative Food Networks.
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Why is it important?
This article makes an important contribution to defining both the ideational and material character of Food Democracy. It shows that the transformative (or better emancipatory) potential of Alternative Food Networks and similar initiatives rests not only in their practice, but also in their ability to disrupt the broader structures of socio-economic organization, most prominently, market-mediated capital accumulation.
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Scholars can and do participate in shaping practice through theory! Our aim was precisely to intervene in public debates and to build dialogue across existing practices of food democracy toward more emancipatory futures.
Rubén Vezzoni
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This page is a summary of: Joining the ideational and the material: transforming food systems toward radical food democracy, Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, April 2024, Frontiers,
DOI: 10.3389/fsufs.2024.1307759.
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