Call For Papers
AAG 2017 Boston (April 5-8, 2017)
Session title: Embedding Trust and Responsibility in Agrifood Networks
Organizer: Benjamin Schrager, University of Hawai‘i; schrager@hawaii.edu
The papers in this panel examine the ways in which agrifood networks are being remade to embed trust and responsibility (Lockie 2009, Thorsøe and Kjeldsen 2015). Far from being a uniform process, there are numerous strategies, and their impact continues to grow more pronounced for producers, retailers, non-profits, and consumers. Geographical approaches have examined the political economy of food certifications (Guthman 2004), the impacts of ethical consumption (Barnett et al., 2011), food’s visceral geographies (Hayes-Conroy and Martin, 2010), and the role of social anxiety (Jackson 2015). These agrifood studies are on the cusp of interdisciplinarity (Goodman 2015). This panel welcomes a wide range of approaches that bring together theoretical and empirical developments around food and agriculture.
Questions of interest include:
How does embedding trust in agrifood networks transcend and/or reinforce market dynamics?
What larger political goals can be accomplished through embedding?
How do the meanings of embedding change at different stages of the commodity chain?
How is responsibility experienced in everyday practices of food consumption?
Please submit abstracts of less than 250 words to Benjamin Schrager (schrager@hawaii.edu) by October 20th.
Works Cited:
Barnett, C., Cloke, P., Clarke, N., & Malpass, A. (2011). Globalizing Responsibility: The Political Rationalities of Ethical Consumption: Wiley-Blackwell.
Goodman, M. K. (2015). Food geographies I: Relational foodscapes and the busy-ness of being more-than-food. Progress in Human Geography, 40(2), 257-266.
Guthman, J. (2004). Agrarian dreams: the paradox of organic farming in California: University of California Press.
Hayes-Conroy, A., & Martin, D. G. (2010). Mobilising bodies: visceral identification in the Slow Food movement. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 35(2), 269-281.
Jackson, P. (2015). Anxious Appetites: Food and Consumer Culture: Bloomsbury Publishing.
Lockie, S. (2009). Responsibility and agency within alternative food networks: assembling the “citizen consumer”. Agriculture and Human Values, 26(3), 193-201.
Thorsøe, M., & Kjeldsen, C. (2015). The Constitution of Trust: function, configuration and generation of trust in alternative food networks.Sociologia Ruralis, 56(2), 157-175.