Seasonality as value(s) in organic farming: On the conflict on heating greenhouses in France

Blancaneaux, Romain

doi:10.1177/02685809221115959

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“…The seedlings and suggested environmental practices end up reducing biodiversity, increasing the risk of disease and increase deforestation because of a narrow framing of environmental sustainability that allows for monocropping. Blancaneaux (2022) studies the process of making the value of a 'season' within organic standards for tomato production in France. He explores how the modern, industrial food system has devalued -symbolically and economically -the seasonal quality of food through the use of technologies and international trade among different agro-ecological zones.…”

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“…Blancaneaux (2022) studies the process of making the value of a ‘season’ within organic standards for tomato production in France. He explores how the modern, industrial food system has devalued – symbolically and economically – the seasonal quality of food through the use of technologies and international trade among different agro-ecological zones.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Governing value(s) and organizing through standards

Loconto

Arnold

2022

International Sociology

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Standards are strongly intertwined with values in economic contexts, which goes far beyond economic value. Standards’ diversity is expressed in local spaces where standards are made, put into action, circulate and commensurate. In these mutually linked and globally distributed spaces, we can analyze the ways in which standards and value(s) encounter each other and what consequences this brings for individuals, organizations, communities, and societies. Examining different settings of food production and organization brings new insights into the sociological explanations and understandings of how standards are guided by values and create value(s). These insights highlight new tensions between global and local social dynamics and offer two ways forward for the sociology of standards. First, is the importance of intermediation between the values of the standards and the governance effects of these same standards. Second, is the relevance of valuelessness, where the prioritization of some values devalues others or loses them completely.

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Section: Standards Makingmentioning

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Governing value(s) and organizing through standards

Loconto

Arnold

2022

International Sociology

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Heterogeneity and agency in the contemporary food regime in Switzerland: among the food from nowhere, somewhere, and here sub-regimes

Stotten

2024

Rev Agric Food Environ Stud

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This study empirically illuminates the contemporary food regime in Switzerland to understand the organisation of food production, distribution, and consumption. From the perspective of food regime theory, it highlights in detail the (inter)relationships in the food regime between the food from nowhere, somewhere, and here sub-regimes using empirical means. Heterogeneous structures, processes, and relations that coexist within an umbrella food regime are examined. To address the criticisms of food regime theory ignoring social agency, this study further reveals collective agency and addresses the role of alternative food systems within the food regime in Switzerland. In-depth document analysis and subsequent qualitative data collection relying on expert interviews were performed. This study illustrates the collective agency shaping the contemporary food regime in Switzerland, encompassing private companies, relevant media, as well as associations and unions involved in farming, processing, and consumption. These influential entities and actor-networks advance different sub-regimes of food from nowhere, somewhere, and here that reflect the heterogeneity of the contemporary food regime in Switzerland. However, the data did not provide sufficient information to determine the collective agency of actors within the alternative food system. The dynamics of the food regime are shaped by contested social practices, which are influenced and interpreted through social agency. This results in an overlap of the sub-regimes that has led to strong counter-movements within the contemporary food regime in Switzerland.

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Seasonality as value(s) in organic farming: On the conflict on heating greenhouses in France

Cited by 2 publications

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Governing value(s) and organizing through standards

Governing value(s) and organizing through standards

Heterogeneity and agency in the contemporary food regime in Switzerland: among the food from nowhere, somewhere, and here sub-regimes

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