The Social Construction of International Food
A New Research Agenda
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4040917 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alberto Arce (0000-0002-3856-6363, Graduate School Experimental Plant Sciences), Terry Marsden (0000-0003-0503-2039, University of Hull), T K Marsden |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 69 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 293 |
| Publication date | 1993-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Economic Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-0095 • E-ISSN: 1944-8287 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/143452 |
| OpenAlex | W1585097055 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 106 |
| References cited | 20 |
In this paper, we critically review current debates associated with the international food system. We then outline a revised set of conceptual and methodological principles linking globalization to the variable responses of actors engaged in the production, supply, and transfer of food. We look at the production of agricultural exports in Chile and food consumption in the United Kingdom as examples of ways in which networks of value are developed, while assessing some of the social consequences. The new rounds of interconnectivity between producer and consumer nations and regions present opportunities to develop a more comprehensive approach that reemphasizes spatial and social variability as major characteristics of globalization. In conclusion, the paper presents some key methodological questions arising from critical analysis. These contribute to the development of a research agenda for the international study of food
Business · Political science · Regional science · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Global trade, sustainability, and social impact · Organic Food and Agriculture
Desenvolvimento, materialidades e o ator social
En busca de la soberanía alimentaria
Consuming ‘Green’
Quality, imagery and marketing
Regulating Meaning, Appropriating Nature
Alternative trade in bananas
Quality in economics
Agri‐Food Multinational Enterprises
Mapping the Bonanza
Tourism, migration, circulation and mobility
A cultural economy model for studying food systems
Aluminum, Commodity Chains, and the Environmental History of the Second World War
Re-embedding global agriculture
The social life of the tortilla
Products from paradise
The ‘New Associationalism’ in agriculture
Property, Institutions, and Social Stratification in Africa
(Re)creating authenticity
Looking beyond the digital veil
The Cultural Economy
The making of authentic tortellini
Far-fetched Meals and Indigestible Discourses
Far‐fetched meals and indigestible discourses
Spatial patterns and social/cultural implications of Japanese fast food chains in China
Commodity chains, quality conventions and the transformation of agro-ecosystems
Innovation and Changing ‘Worlds of Production’
World-scale processes and agro-food systems
A response to my critics
Explaining change in the international agro-food system
Nourishing women
Re-Figuring the Problem of Farmer Agency in Agri-Food Studies
Fields of Cultural Contradictions
Wine is not Coca-Cola
Fish, factory trawlers, and imitation crab
Mobilising the commodity chain concept in the politics of food and farming
Putting place on the menu
Sustaining the fruits of labour
The interpersonal world of direct marketing
Producer constructions of quality in regional speciality food production
The geography of Washington's world apple
Development III
Geographies of retailing and consumption
Spatializing commodity chains
Working in the global food system
Opening the boundaries of the rural experience
Linking agricultural policies with obesity and noncommunicable diseases
The Globalization of Organic Agro-Food Networks
Multinational Corporations in Indian Food Retail
Tracking Globalization
Rethinking Food Production-Consumption
Ontology Matters
Commodified Meanings, Meaningful Commodities
Agro-Food Studies in the 'Age of Ecology
Knowing food and growing food
Back to Nature
Globalization, Sustainability, and Apple Orcharding, Hawke's Bay, New Zealand
Quality standards, conventions and the governance of global value chains
The ‘queen of greens’ comes to the tropics
Middlemen versus middlemen in agri-food supply chains in Bengaluru, India
Retailing local food in the Scottish–English borders
Neoliberalism and the making of food politics in California
Living local, growing global
Agro-commodity chains, market power and territory
Globalization, Fordism, and Post‐Fordism in Agriculture and Food
Understanding Land Grabs in Africa
Consuming narratives
Globalisation, Uneven Development and Marginalisation
Global value chains and human development
The shrinking globe
Reshaping Environments
Globalization and the Changing Networks of Food Supply
Horticultural Reform in the European Union and New Zealand
Tourism and migration
Political ecology as ethical practice
Commodity Chains, Rural Development and the Global Agri-food System
Climate Science and Decision Making
Back to the Land
Resource Triumphalism
Alternative Strategies in the UK Agro-Food System
Shifts in Food Regimes, Regulation, and Producer Cooperatives
The Moral Commodity
Controlling Labor Commitment in Brazil's Global Agriculture
Geographies of Consumption
Reregulating the UK Dairy Industry
Standard quality as a boundary object-A conceptual study
Displacement, Consumption, and Identity
The Transnational Corporate Networks of Breakfast Cereals in Asia
Regulation, Retailing, and Consumption
The Urban Creative-Food Economy
Constructing Quality
Quality, Nature, and Embeddedness
Securing Sugar
Tales from Two Deltas
The Emerging Contours of the Third Food Regime
Spatializing Globalization
Jungle Law in the Orchard
Re-naturalizing sugar
Local preferences of mung bean qualities for food autonomy in India
Invoking Simplicity
Food, place and identity
The Violence of the Green Revolution
Meat
The Social Life of Things
Introduction
Labor, Markets, and Agricultural Production
Privatization in developing countries
The transformation of Mexican agriculture
Cash crops, food crops, and sustainability
Economic stabilization and structural transformation
Marxism and development sociology
Investment strategies to combat rural poverty
The (rip) tide of privatization
The monetarist experiment in Chile
The environmental consequences of Latin America's agricultural development
Towards a free market economy
Food regulation in a period of agricultural retreat
The Fish Gate
Estado, neoliberalismo y política agraria en Chile, 1973-1981
Household production and the national economy
African peasantries
| Unique citing works | 106 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,31 |
| Citation span | 1994 - 2025 (32) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 101 |