The Organization of Practices for Instituting Economic Processes: Alternative Food Networks in Beijing

Wahn, I-Liang

doi:10.1177/1749975520935756

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“…While a social practice approach is useful as a lens to illuminate the operations of food hubs, it is criticised for downplaying wider social structures that frame social practices [33][34][35]. Thereby, somewhat neglecting concepts such as strategic networks.…”

Section: Social Practice and Stategic Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-Actor Social Networks: A Social Practice Approach to Understanding Food Hubs

Hyland¹,

Macken‐Walsh²

2022

Sustainability

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Food hubs are collaborative entities that strategically manage the assemblage, delivery, and promotion of food from a range of local food producers. They are essentially multi-actor institutions, involving horizontal collaboration between producers and vertical collaborations up and down the food chain, involving all actors required to bring food products from producers to consumers. Although food hubs offer many advantages to both producers and consumers, they remain a recognisably neglected research topic in Europe. Furthermore, the strategic networks of actors involved in these collaborative entities is often overlooked. Empirically, this study draws from a collection of ‘good practices’ gathered for the Short Supply Chain Knowledge and Innovation Network (SKIN) EU-funded H2020 project. Drawing on a social practice approach and network diagrams, this article explores the good practices of three food hub typologies. This study primarily investigates the context in which food hubs practice multi-actor food provision. We apply social practice as a lens to ’zoom in’ and explore the shared materials, meanings and skills that aid such systems of provision. Social network diagrams are utilised to ‘zoom out’ to examine and facilitate the detection of key actors involved in food hubs’ strategic networks. This research addresses the lack of academic attention on European food hubs by placing practice as the central unit of focus. Our approach enables better comprehension of what constitutes a short food supply chain (SFSC) when orchestrated within three main typologies of food hubs. The findings are of interest to researchers, policy makers, agricultural development intermediaries, and actors involved in systems of food provision who are interested in understanding and supporting the functioning of SFSCs.

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Section: Social Practice and Stategic Networkmentioning

confidence: 99%

Multi-Actor Social Networks: A Social Practice Approach to Understanding Food Hubs

Hyland¹,

Macken‐Walsh²

2022

Sustainability

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“…Here, various targets of SDG 11 (making cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable) [27] are associated with a flourishing ecosystem of niche studies [28][29][30][31]. For example, resilient and inclusive communities are associated with securing access to healthy food, which gives rise to case studies on food security through specific urban, periurban, or rural farming projects [32][33][34][35], explorations of alternative food networks [36,37], and the potential of agro and food tourism, business incubators, or entrepreneurial activities by social groups [38][39][40][41][42][43][44]. Evidence from community-supported agriculture (CSA) initiatives have consistently underscored profitability for smaller farms [45,46] and rural community development [46,47].…”

Section: Small-scale Bottom-up Approaches To Sustainable Community Tr...mentioning

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Toward Sustainable Communities: A Case Study of the Eastern Market in Detroit

Bergman

2022

Sustainability

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Community development tends to focus on large-scale, government-funded transformations or on small-scale, grassroot initiatives. In the US, the financial resources, available infrastructure, and broad-based civic support to implement large-scale community transformations are frequently lacking. In contrast, niche interventions, while often locally successful, tend to be unscalable. Accordingly, many community development programs either do not go beyond an ideational stage, or they are unscalable or unsustainable in the long run. In this qualitative case study, we analyze the Eastern Market in Detroit, Michigan, a local institution that contributes considerably and in several ways to the sustainability of multiple communities. Using Content Configuration Analysis (CCA), we conduct a bottom-up exploratory analysis of fieldwork notes, nonparticipant observations, as well as audio, visual, and written materials including policy and strategy documents from the City of Detroit, Wayne County, and the State of Michigan, academic publications, strategy and annual reports, websites, blogs, vlogs, social media outlets, newspapers, podcasts, and interviews along two lines of inquiry: first, to examine how the market contributes to sustainable community development and, second, to explore the systemic underpinnings that facilitate such development. Specifically, we focus on the Eastern Market to identify system-relevant actors, interests, relations, interventions, and outcomes that illustrate an institution which operates well beyond the ideational confines of a conventional farmers market. In the process of exploring the adaptive nature of the Eastern Market within its financial and infrastructural constraints, we also exemplify with this case that a well-established institution, a farmers market, can reinvent itself to serve multiple needs of larger, heterogeneous communities, and that the successful adaptations associated with this reinvention reimagine the community in which it is embedded.

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Civic food networks and agrifood forums: a social infrastructure for civic engagement

Wahn

2024

Agric Hum Values

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The Organization of Practices for Instituting Economic Processes: Alternative Food Networks in Beijing

Cited by 5 publications

References 47 publications

Multi-Actor Social Networks: A Social Practice Approach to Understanding Food Hubs

Multi-Actor Social Networks: A Social Practice Approach to Understanding Food Hubs

Toward Sustainable Communities: A Case Study of the Eastern Market in Detroit

Civic food networks and agrifood forums: a social infrastructure for civic engagement

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