Beyond ‘voting with your chopsticks’
Community organising for safe food in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12582012 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Theresa Schumilas (Geography and Environmental Studies Wilfrid Laurier University 75 University Ave W. Waterloo Ontario N2L 3C5 Canada, corresponding author), Steffanie Scott (0000-0002-4754-246X, Geography and Environmental Management University of Waterloo Canada) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 301-312 |
| Publication date | 2016-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Asia Pacific Viewpoint (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1360-7456 • E-ISSN: 1467-8373 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/apv.12127 |
| OpenAlex | W2564458787 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 36 |
This paper describes the recent emergence of alternative food networks in China in the context of widespread food quality concerns. Drawing on interviews and public blog posts, we illustrate how participants in these networks are moving beyond instrumental market relations and developing the collective agency necessary to participate in shaping China's food system. We argue that the initiators and participants in these alternative food networks are not only individual shoppers who ‘vote with their chopsticks’, but are also nascent activists deploying grassroots community organising strategies. We reveal how these networks are using inclusive and reflexive processes to build diverse networks, how they are using internet communications to extend their reach, voice dissent and engage in nascent ‘bottom up’ policy formation, and how they are building influential connections and actively, but unofficially, expanding linkages to broader emancipatory spaces of global and social justice movements
Agency (philosophy · China · Context (archaeology · Dissent · Grassroots · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Reflexivity · Social movement · Social science · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture
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| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,13 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |