Plan-and-play in the polder: exploring the lived futures of sustainable food entrepreneurship in Flevoland

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Chapter 1 General introduction 1.1 Introduction -Beyond the gap of dreams and deeds 1.2 Empirical context: food system transformation and entrepreneurship in Flevoland, the Netherlands 1.2.1 Food system transformation in the Netherlands 1.2.2 Entrepreneurship in Flevoland: pioneering the past, present and future of food 1.3 Scientific context: food, futures and entrepreneurship 1.3.1 Future in society and social science: the future versus futures 1.3.2 Entrepreneurship: discovering the future versus imagining futures 1.3.3 Food entrepreneurship: process of change versus economic agency 1.3.4 Towards a new perspective: sustainable food entrepreneurship 1.4 Research objective and knowledge gap 1.5 Research questions 1.6 Theoretical and conceptual approach 1.6.1 Lived futures and the practice-turn of entrepreneurship 1.6.2 Three lenses: practice, discourse and process 1.6.3 Conceptual understanding of food system transformation and sustainability 1.7 Research approach and methods 1.8 Outline of this thesis Chapter 2 Food systems in transition: conceptualising sustainable food entrepreneurship Abstract 2.1 Introduction 2.2 Materials and methods 2.2.1 Literature reviews (I and II) 2.2.2 Expert interviews and the setting of Almere, Flevoland (III) 2.3 The sustainable food entrepreneurship framework (SFEF) 2.3.1 Introducing the concepts of the framework 2.3.2 From socio-material context to experienced pasts: food as a cultural product 2.3.3 From experienced pasts to imagined futures: organisation and cooperation 2.3.4 From imagined futures to socio-material context: matching meaning and materials 2.3.5 From socio-material context to new uncertainties: ongoing cycles of change 2.4 Discussion 2.4.1 Scope and limitations of the framework 2.4.2 Implications of the framework 2.4.3 Policy implications 2.5 Conclusion Chapter 3 Sustainability in times of disruption: engaging with near and distant futures in practices of food entrepreneurship Abstract 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Theoretical framework 3.2.1 Practice ontology and disruption 3.2.2 Future engagement 3.2.3 Near and distant future engagement 3.2.4 Context: Food entrepreneurship in Flevoland, the Netherlands 3.3 Methods and materials 3.4 Findings 3.4.1 The impact of the disruption on food entrepreneurship 3.4.2 Change in food entrepreneurship during the disruption: working and market conditions 3.4.3 Engagement with near and distant futures during the disruption 3.5 Discussion and conclusion 3.5.1 Limitations and future directions of research Chapter 4 Mission accomplished? How food entrepreneurship discursively constructs futures for sustainable food Abstract 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Theoretical framework 4.2.1 Critical discourse analysis 4.2.2 Food entrepreneurship and the discursive construction of the future 4.2.3 The spacetime configuration framework 4.3 Context and methods 4.3.1 Context: food entrepreneurship in Flevoland, the Netherlands 4.3.2 Critical discourse analysis, websites, and spacetime configuration 4.3.3 Sampling and data collection 4.3.4 Coding 4.3.5 Analysis a...