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Nereu Antonio de Costa Junior
Mestrado - Programa de Pós Graduação em Desenvolvimento Regional (PPGDR)
Universidade Tecnológica Federal do Paraná (UTFPR)
REFERÊNCIA BIBLIOGRÁFICA
GOODMAN, D. The quality ‘turn’ and alternative food practices: reflections and agenda.
Journal of Rural Studies, v. 19, p.1-7, 2003. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/S0743-
0167(02)00043-8
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The ‘turn’ to quality associated with the proliferation of alternative agro-food
networks (AAFNs) operating at the margins of mainstream industrial food 1
circuits has stimulated a significant body of research...
Embeddedness, trust, place and their variants continue as the conceptual
touchstones but in the service of empirically grounded analyses of alternative
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food practices, institutional mechanisms of rural governance and policy, and the
potential of AAFNs as engines of rural economic dynamism.
In a nutshell, North American research typically is in conversation with activist
circles, academic and lay, and is concerned pre-eminently with the oppositional
status and socio-political transformative potential of AAFNs, whereas European 1
research focuses more strongly on incremental institutional change and is
addressed, explicitly or implicitly, to an audience of policymakers.
These policy debates, and the frictions and resistances they engender, provide the 2
mise en scene for the advocacy by some European scholars of AAFNs as the
dynamic, innovative expression of the ‘new’ rural development.
Embora essa visão geral não faça justiça às análises complexas e matizadas das
AAFNs encontradas nas literaturas norte-americanas e europeias, suas
diferenças podem ser representadas, à grosso modo, em termos da ênfase relativa
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dada a essas novas formas organizacionais como portadoras de mudança política
transformadora, por um lado, e como exemplares de um modelo institucional
alternativo de desenvolvimento rural, por outro.
The principal analytical categories marshalled to explicate the quality ‘turn’-
quality, embeddedness, and the local—are all constructs whose material and 2
symbolic meanings are vigorously contested.
Indeed, it is precisely the difficulty of deciphering these meanings and their
complex expression in social behavior, organizational forms, discourse and
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power relations that defines the theoretical and empirical challenge presented by
the ‘turn’ to quality in food practices.
Fair Trade also is built on a transformative imperative, emerging from left
politics and international solidarity movements in the 1960s and 1970s as a 4
project to challenge and displace conventional channels of international trade.
The papers assembled in this collection address the configuration of alternative
and conventional agro-food networks at different geo-economic and geo-political
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scales, utilizing operational concepts drawn mainly from economic sociology
and, though less prominently, other network theories
These reflections on the quality ‘turn’ in food practices and the foci of the Santa
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Cruz workshop papers suggest several topics for further research.
Finally, the asymmetrical focus of research on AAFNs and the quality ‘turn’ on
the production ‘moment’ in agro-food circuits has led to the serious neglect of
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consumption, ‘‘with consumers cast in stratified, market research terms, without
‘agency’ or meaningful everyday practices’’
Essa omissão é ainda mais gritante na medida em que a expansão e a reprodução
das AAFNs, por definição, dependem de sua capacidade de reconfigurar as 6
relações produtor-consumidor.
These thoughts on future research themes call for more critical scrutiny of key
concepts, closer interaction with parallel debates in economic sociology and
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economic geography, and greater analytical attention to consumption and
consumers.
These points are made as constructive suggestions in the expectation that the
vibrant literature on AAFNs and the quality ‘turn’ will continue to extend its
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engagements with social theory, activist communities, different agro-food
circuits, and rural policy constituencies.