Eating local in a U.S. city

Reconstructing “community”-a third place-in a global neoliberal economy

Bibliographic Data

ID11076180
AuthorsNana Okura Gagné (Waseda University, corresponding author)
Year2011
Volume38
Issue2
Pages281-293
Publication date2011-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Ethnologist (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0094-0496 • E-ISSN: 1548-1425
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1548-1425.2011.01306.x
OpenAlexW2079086055
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited29

In this article, I explore a particular form of exchange in which food-selling farmers and food-buying urban consumers interact beyond simple economic terms at a U.S. urban farmers’ market. By actively distinguishing their “alternative” exchange from the dominant capitalist exchange, participants objectify processes of production and consumption as well as their own “idealized form of being” (“liberal open-mindedness”) while undermining the dominant ideology of the neoliberal economy. By co-constructing this market as a “third place” where basic distinctions between commodity and gift are blurred and transgressed, customers and farmers produce a “conceptual shift” from Marxian alienated exchange to Maussian inalienating exchange by infusing market transactions with new meanings and new spatial fixes

Commodity · Consumption (sociology · Economics · Economy · Exchange value · Ideology · Market economy · Microeconomics · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Production (economics · Social science · Sociology · Consumer Retail Behavior Studies · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture · Political Economy and Marxism

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