New Ways of Working and Organization: Alternative Agrifood Movements and Agrifood Researchers

Autor/in	Friedland, William H.
Titel	New Ways of Working and Organization: Alternative Agrifood Movements and Agrifood Researchers
Quelle	In: Rural Sociology, 75 (2010) 4, S.601-627 (27 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0036-0112
DOI	10.1111/j.1549-0831.2010.00031.x
Schlagwörter	Role of Education; Food Standards; Comparative Analysis; Researchers; Social Theories; Agribusiness; Agricultural Production; Social Action; Political Issues; Social Change; Economic Change; Social Justice; Research Utilization; Organizations (Groups) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsauftrag; Lebensmittelgesetz; Researcher; Forscher; Gesellschaftstheorie; Agrarindustrie; Agriculture; Production; Landwirtschaft; Produktion; Agrarproduktion; Landwirtschaftliche Produktion; Soziales Handeln; Politischer Faktor; Sozialer Wandel; Ökonomischer Wandel; Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Forschungsumsetzung
Abstract	The remarkable growth of alternative agrifood movements--organics, fair trade, localism, Slow Food, farmers' markets, community-supported agriculture, food security, food safety, food sovereignty, anti-genetically modified organisms, animal welfare, and others--and their attraction to younger academic scholars offer a unique opportunity to explore ways to strengthen such movements utilizing the structural position and distinctive skills of academic researchers. The various movements constitute the major resource; sympathetic academic researchers are a second resource. Mobilizing these two resources in a new organization, the Alternative Agrifood Researchers without Borders, has the potential to contribute to strengthening the movements and their original progressive orientations and advancing civil society. To be effective, a new organization should parallel existing structures in state and market but focus on progressive goals aimed at reducing inequalities and expanding political and social participation. In building a body of literature usable for comparative analysis, the goal should be more effective alternative agrifood movements providing better services to broader global constituencies while simultaneously improving academic research quality. I draw on three social theories--resource mobilization, strategic intervention, and structural parallelism--to encourage careful revision of established academic paradigms. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10