Food, publics, science

Blue, Gwendolyn

doi:10.1177/0963662508098575

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“…tomatoes) they purchase from the big retailers in the UK are likely to be grown hydroponically (Caspall et al, 2006 they were nevertheless reasonably well informed about the threats of industrial food production such as chemical fertilisers. Debate on food in media, in the UK and beyond, is very active (Blue, 2010), possibly also because of threats to the health of consumers that have shaken their confidence in industrial food supply and production. Food threats coming from animals reared and fed in such a way that increases health risks, for example, are becoming common (Knowles et al, 2007), hence leading to a higher level of information on the food industry practices and issues related to food generally.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

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Hydroponics and community gardens: insights on the interaction between urban farmers and technology

Caputo

Rumble²,

Schaefer³

2018

Acta Hortic.

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Large-scale hydroponic systems, a highly resource and space efficient form of cultivation, already contribute substantially to global food production. Recognising the value of such an efficiency, a few hydroponic/aquaponics community projects and small social enterprises have recently been implemented in Europe. In addition to food production in itself, hydroponic gardening can be an opportunity in terms of not only enabling urban communities to produce their own food in absence of land suitable for cultivation, but also in re-skilling in a range of fields, from plumbing and energy resource management, to computer programing. The advantages of simplified hydroponics in a densely built urban context has been investigated before in the developing countries (see Facondini et al 2010) and in the developed world (Laidlaw and Magee, 2016). We intend to build on the latter and generate further insights on the possible barriers to the uptake of soil-less, small-scale, digitally operated hydroponic systems from community of gardeners and people involved in gardening projects. Gardening is traditionally an on-soil activity, with associated benefits such as physical exercise and interaction with nature. We aim to understand whether a different, technology-based approach to food cultivation can be perceived as a limit from these communities. In collaboration with the community association Big Local Fratton, we are in the process of installing a digitally-operated hydroponic unit in a community garden located in a primary school, in Portsmouth, and ask gardeners to manage it. Interviews will be held between July and September with students and parents, volunteers of the community garden, and a wider community of gardeners connected with Big Local Fratton. This paper will present the initial analysis of the interviews.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hydroponics and community gardens: insights on the interaction between urban farmers and technology

Caputo

Rumble²,

Schaefer³

2018

Acta Hortic.

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“…Although citizens worry about salmonella, dioxins, hormones, etc., in food (Blue 2010) and know that obesity is a health risk, it is difficult to turn food labels and the rising aggregate body mass index into an emotional political debate. Thus, compared to tobacco and GMOs, there were substantial differences in the framing success NGOs could hope to achieve.…”

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Biased or not? Organized interests and the case of EU food information labeling

Kurzer¹,

Cooper

2013

Journal of European Public Policy

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We address the literature on EU lobbying and the issue of biases in interest representation by examining the fate of the food labeling regulation. NGOs initially succeeded in framing the issue and dominated the process of drafting the Commission's proposal. However, NGOs lost the fight in the Parliament, where industry's preferences largely prevailed. Our explanation centers on opportunity structures and highlights three dimensions that interfered with a successful mobilization of votes in the EP: strength of the frame;, size of the lobbying coalition; and the identity of the rapporteur. Once the proposal was in the EP, NGOs found it difficult to rally the public and lost control of framing. The food industry was keen to minimize labeling requirements, constituted the dominant lobby, and enjoyed enormous resources and political connections. Finally, the rapporteur was ideologically opposed to the proposed labeling rules and greatly watered down their requirements.

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“…Forandrings-opfordrende kommunikation og de hermed forbundne mere generelle diskussioner i medierne er således med til at placere kompliceret videnskabelig viden, modsatrettede videnskabelige argumenter, og mere konkrete "oversaettelser" heraf i en hverdagskontekst (Eden, 2009). På denne måde bliver videnskabelig viden og argumentation potentielt brugt og håndteret i borgernes dagligdag, og borgerne indgår potentielt i (mikro)off entlige samtaler om videnskab (Árnason, 2012;Blue, 2010).…”

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Halkier¹

2014

Politik

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Food is an ordinary practice in everyday life. At the same time, food practices become politicised through at- tempts to regulate food related collective problems such as health, risk and climate by way of encouraging self- disciplining and normative regulation of everyday habits among citizens. Such regulatory technologies cover medialised change communication, and in the food eld, such communication often builds upon scienti c knowledge and arguments. us, when citizens relate to such communication, links between complicated scienti c knowledges and everyday translations are produced. Building on a practice theoretical approach, the article shows three empirically based ways in which Danish citizens handle scienti cally based change communication on food in their daily lives: Empowerment, resistance towards disciplining, and do-ability. e typology demonstrates that citizenship in the scienti cally based politicised food eld – „food-izenship“ – is more varied and compound than presumed in the existing approaches to change communication and the Public Understanding of Science literature.

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Food, publics, science

Cited by 26 publications

References 25 publications

Hydroponics and community gardens: insights on the interaction between urban farmers and technology

Hydroponics and community gardens: insights on the interaction between urban farmers and technology

Biased or not? Organized interests and the case of EU food information labeling

Madborgerskab? Når videnskab møder hverdagspraksis

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