Constructing Quality: Emerging Food Networks in the Rural Transition

Marsden, Terry; Arce, Alberto

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“…Social regulation has also been used specifically for the analysis of change in the agriculture and food sector (Lowe et al, 1994;Flynn and Marsden, 1995;Marsden and Arce, 1995;Goodwin, 2006). Regulation is seen as being practiced at different scales and by a range of actors, including the local and national levels of the state, and private business interests.…”

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Intensification of workplace regimes in British horticulture: the role of migrant workers

Rogaly

2008

Population Space and Place

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Article (Accepted Version) http://sro.sussex.ac.uk Rogaly, Ben (2008) Intensification of workplace regimes in British horticulture: the role of migrant workers. Population, Space and Place, 14 (6). pp. 497-510. ISSN 1544-8444 This version is available from Sussex Research Online: http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/11584/ This document is made available in accordance with publisher policies and may differ from the published version or from the version of record. If you wish to cite this item you are advised to consult the publisher's version. Please see the URL above for details on accessing the published version. Copyright and reuse:Sussex Research Online is a digital repository of the research output of the University.Copyright and all moral rights to the version of the paper presented here belong to the individual author(s) and/or other copyright owners. To the extent reasonable and practicable, the material made available in SRO has been checked for eligibility before being made available.Copies of full text items generally can be reproduced, displayed or performed and given to third parties in any format or medium for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-profit purposes without prior permission or charge, provided that the authors, title and full bibliographic details are credited, a hyperlink and/or URL is given for the original metadata page and the content is not changed in any way. The paper draws on concepts developed in the US literature on agrarian capitalism. It then uses case histories from British horticulture to illustrate how growers have directly linked innovations involving intensification through labour control to their relationships with retailers. Under pressure on 'quality', volume and price, growers are found to have ratcheted up the effort required from workers to achieve the minimum wage through reducing the rates paid for piecework, and in some cases to have changed the type of labour contractor they use to larger, more anonymous businesses. The paper calls for further, commodity-specific and spatially aware research with a strong ethnographic component.

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Intensification of workplace regimes in British horticulture: the role of migrant workers

Rogaly

2008

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“…This led researchers to look beyond the farm gate to understand the agricultural sector, leading subsequently to interaction with other disciplines and geographical sub-fields and extending the range of topics studied. This is illustrated clearly in the analysis of an increasingly globalised food system (McMichael, 1993;Whatmore, 1995;Le Heron andRoche, 1995, Marsden andArce, 1995;Goodman and Watts, 1997). A profusion of research on agricultural issues adopting this approach has been forthcoming, ensuring a revitalization rather than a redundancy of academic interest, although little further debate has taken place about the nature of agricultural geography itself.…”

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Research on the geography of agricultural change: redundant or revitalized?

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1999

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Summary Future research directions for agricultural geography were the subject of debate in Area in the late 1980s, and the subsequent application of political economy ideas undoubtedly revived interest in agricultural research. This paper argues that agricultural geography contains greater diversity than the dominant political economy discourse would suggest. It reviews ‘other’ areas of agricultural research such as policy, post‐ productivism, people, culture and animals, presenting future suggestions which should ensure that agricultural research continues revitalized rather than redundant into the next millennium.

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“…This theoretical shift, together with a number of significant events (such as multiple food scandals and scares, the rise of biotechnology and its controversies, and the emergence of so-called "alternative" food systems) shaped a reconceptualisation of agri-food research. In the wake of these events, its focus expanded beyond the realm of production in order to also include relations emanating from the consumption and distribution of foods [59][60][61]. This "consumption turn", as Dixon [59] points out, also implied a shift towards more cultural, action-oriented, relational and intersubjective accounts of power.…”

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Seeing GMOs from a Systems Perspective: The Need for Comparative Cartographies of Agri/Cultures for Sustainability Assessment

2015

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Over the past twenty years, agricultural biotechnologies have generated chronically unresolved political controversies. The standard tool of risk assessment has proven to be highly limited in its ability to address the panoply of concerns that exist about these hybrid techno/organisms. It has also failed to account for both the conceptual and material networks of relations agricultural biotechnologies require, create and/or perform. This paper takes as a starting point that agricultural biotechnologies cannot be usefully assessed as isolated technological entities but need to be evaluated within the context of the broader socio-ecological system that they embody and engender. The paper then explores, compares and contrasts some of the methodological tools available for advancing this systems-based perspective. The article concludes by outlining a new synthesis approach of comparative cartographies of agri/cultures generated through multi-sited ethnographic case-studies, which is proposed as a way to generate system maps and enable the comparison of genetically modified (GM) food with both conventional and alternative agri-food networks for sustainability assessment. The paper aims to make a unique theoretical and methodological contribution by advancing a systems-based approach to conceptualising and assessing genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and proposing a synthesised methodology for mapping networks of relations across different agri/cultures. OPEN ACCESSSustainability 2015, 7 11322

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Constructing Quality: Emerging Food Networks in the Rural Transition

Cited by 119 publications

References 14 publications

Intensification of workplace regimes in British horticulture: the role of migrant workers

Intensification of workplace regimes in British horticulture: the role of migrant workers

Research on the geography of agricultural change: redundant or revitalized?

Seeing GMOs from a Systems Perspective: The Need for Comparative Cartographies of Agri/Cultures for Sustainability Assessment

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