Naming Food After Places

Naming Food After Places
Food Relocalisation and Knowledge Dynamics in Rural Development

Author: Maria Fonte, Apostolos G. Papadopoulos
ISBN: 9780754677185
Pages: 306
Format: 16 Χ 23
Binding: Hardback
Pub. Year: 2010


Bringing together a range of case studies from Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece, this book compares and contrasts different models of food re-localization. The richness and complexity of the international case studies provide a broad understanding of the characteristics of the re-localization movement, while the analysis of knowledge forms and dynamics provides an innovative new theoretical approach. Each of the national teams work on the basis of an agreed common framework, resulting in a strongly coherent and comprehensive continental overview. This shows how the actors involved are pursuing their objectives in different regional and national contexts, re-embedding, socially and ecologically, the relation between food production, consumption and places.