From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice

Changing interpretations of food self-provisioning

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ID4445871
AutoresPetr Daněk (0000-0002-7649-4153, Department of Geography Science Faculty Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic, autor de correspondencia), Lucie Sovová (0000-0003-2906-2144, Department of Geography Science Faculty Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic), Petr Jehlička (0000-0002-7602-7133, Department of Geography Science Faculty Masaryk University Brno Czech Republic), Jennifer Vavra (0000-0002-3171-6023, Department of Local and Regional Studies Institute of Sociology Czech Academy of Sciences Praha Czech Republic), Miloslav Lapka (0000-0001-7309-0252, Department of Regional Management and Law Faculty of Economics University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice České Budějovice Czech Republic)
Año2022
Volumen62
Número3
Páginas651-671
Fecha de publicación2022-07-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/soru.12395
OpenAlexW4283729745
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas82

While alternative food networks (AFNs) have become the leading conceptualisation of sustainable food systems, vibrant scholarship on food self-provisioning (FSP) in Central and Eastern Europe has remained confined to the geopolitical region it investigates. This article brings these two bodies of thought closer together in two steps. First, we trace four framings of FSP deployed over the last three decades-coping strategy, cultural practice, hobby and source of good food and reading FSP as transformative practice-to demonstrate its progressive affinity with AFNs. Second, we follow the most recent framing in highlighting the material reality of local food production as a feature shared by both FSP and AFNs. From this perspective, FSP can be understood as a more radical variant of AFNs given its more substantial environmental and social impact (FSP is more widespread and socially inclusive and less dependent on market transactions). By uncovering the epistemological underpinnings of these different framings of FSP and exploring their implications for food practices on the ground, this article draws general lessons for scholarship aiming to advance food system transformation

Agriculture · Coping (psychology) · Food security · Food systems · Framing (construction) · Geography · Political science · Provisioning · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability · Organic Food and Agriculture · Psychology · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability