Beyond Alternative Food Networks Italys Solidarity Purchase Groups
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 210
ISBN-13: 9780857852281
Description: Food activism is core to the contemporary study of food - there are numerous foodscapes which exist within the umbrella definition of food activism from farmer's markets, organic food movements to Fair Trade. This highly original book focuses on one key emerging foodscape dominating the Italian alternative food network (AFN) scene: GAS (gruppi di acquisto solidale or solidarity-based purchase groups) and explores the innovative social dynamics underlying these networks and the reasons behind their success. Based on a detailed 'insider' ethnography, this study interprets the principles behind t.