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Applied Geography, Apr 1, 1996

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks, 2021

What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural res... more What is the future of food in light of growing threats from the climate emergency and natural resource depletion, as well as economic and social inequality? This textbook engages with this question, and considers the complex relationships between food, place, and space, providing students with an introduction to the contemporary and future geographies of food and the powerful role that food plays in our everyday lives. Geographies of Food explores contemporary food issues and crises in all their dimensions, as well as the many solutions currently being proposed. Drawing on global case studies from the Majority and Minority Worlds, it analyses the complex relationships operating between people and processes at a range of geographical scales, from the shopping decisions of consumers in a British or US supermarket, to food insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa, to the high-level political negotiations at the World Trade Organization and the strategies of giant American and European agri-businesses whose activities span several continents. With over 60 color images and a range of lively pedagogical features, Geographies of Food is essential reading for undergraduates studying food and geography.

This report provides a summary of key findings from a small research project conducted in 2018, f... more This report provides a summary of key findings from a small research project conducted in 2018, focusing on mountain bike trail centres as an example of the ‘experience economy’. The research included interviews with representatives of public and private sector organisations involved with trail centre provision, and an online survey with UK mountain bike riders.

Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - is as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breat... more Dirt - and our rituals to eradicate it - is as much a part of our everyday lives as eating, breathing and sleeping. Yet this very fact means that we seldom stop to question what we mean by dirt. What do our attitudes to dirt and cleanliness tell us about ourselves and the societies we live in? Exploring a wide variety of settings - domestic, urban, suburban and rural - the contributors expose how our ideas about dirt are intimately bound up with issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexuality and the body. The result is a a rich and challenging work that extends our understanding of historical and contemporary cultural manifestations of dirt and cleanliness.

... Valentine (1997, p. 3) write that'For most inhabitants of (post) modern Western societie... more ... Valentine (1997, p. 3) write that'For most inhabitants of (post) modern Western societies ... of'consumer'and'producer'may prove inadequate in such a conceptualization (Hassanein, 2003). ... For Beck, hazards produced by modern industrial systems (eg pollution) assume a primary ...

Contents: Geographies of rural cultures and societies: introduction, Lewis Holloway and Moya Knea... more Contents: Geographies of rural cultures and societies: introduction, Lewis Holloway and Moya Kneafsey. Part I: Thinking Ruralities: Obese and pornographic ruralities: further cultural twists for rural geography?, Martin Phillips Spatial stories: preliminary notes on the idea of narrative style in rural studies, Rob Fish (Re)positioning power in rural studies: from organic community to political society, Graham Gardner Constructing multiple ruralities: practices and values of rural dwellers, Hanne Kirstine Adriansen and Lene MA,ller Madsen. Part II: Rural Societies: Inclusions and Exclusions: Politics and protest in the contemporary countryside, Michael Woods Geographies of invisibility: the 'hidden' lives of rural lone parents, Annie Hughes Constable countryside? police perspectives on rural Britain, Richard Yarwood and Caroline Cozens. Part III: Community and Governance: Mobilizing the local: community, participation and governance, Bill Edwards and Michael Woods A sense of place: rural development, tourism and place promotion in the Republic of Ireland, David Storey 'Community'-based strategies for environmental protection in rural areas: towards a new form of participatory rural governance?, Susanne Seymour. Part IV: Cultures of Farming and Food: Lost words, lost worlds? Cultural geographies of agriculture, Carol Morris Producing-consuming food: closeness, connectedness and rurality in four 'alternative' food networks, Lewis Holloway and Moya Kneafsey Winners and losers? rural restructuring, economic status and masculine identities among young farmers in South-West Ireland, CaitrA-ona NA- Laoire Index.

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, Aug 1, 1999

Little research has been conducted on the changing geographical distribution of organic farming i... more Little research has been conducted on the changing geographical distribution of organic farming in England and Wales in the 1990s. Using of®cially published secondary data, this paper examines the changing patterns of organic farming between 1993 and 1997, based on the number of organic farms, the area devoted to organic farming, the number of exits from and conversions to organic farming, and speci®c organic enterprises. The analysis indicates a process of spatial rationalisation, in which organic farming is becoming increasingly concentrated in a core area in Central-Southern England. Further, more detailed work is required, of both an empirical and conceptual nature, before a full explanation of such patterns can be given.

Local Environment, Apr 1, 2008

Direct marketing strategies of different kinds are often central to so-called alternative food n... more Direct marketing strategies of different kinds are often central to so-called alternative food networks, which tend to be underpinned by a central principle of somehow reconnecting food producers and consumers. This paper uses a case study of a community-supported ...

Environment And Planning E: Nature And Space, Jun 7, 2022

This paper engages with debates surrounding practices of care in complex situations where human a... more This paper engages with debates surrounding practices of care in complex situations where human and nonhuman lives are entangled. Focusing on the embodied practices of care involving farmers, their advisers and cows and sheep in the North of England, the paper explores how biosocial collectivities fabricate care around endemic health conditions in specific farming situations. Based on in-depth research with farmers and advisers, the paper examines how Bovine Viral Diarrhoea (BVD) and lameness are made 'visible' and become cared about, what practices are mobilised in response to an evident need to care, and how some animals are, paradoxically, made 'killable' in the practising of care for populations of cows and sheep. The paper discusses how the perspectives of farmers and advisers are aligned in developing practices of care for animals, although there are some tensions and differences between these groups. Advisers focus on making endemic diseases important to farmers, so that they become enrolled into taking prescribed action. However, the sets of competing priorities farmers have to address, in complex onfarm situations, along with some resistance to taking prescribed action, produces other perspectives on and practices of care. The paper concludes by emphasising the problematics of practising care in farming, showing how care for endemic disease co-exists with harm to some animals and the reproduction of modes of farming which make it more likely that endemic conditions persist.

Routledge eBooks, Jan 14, 2014

1. ..Arrivals 2. Everyday Places, Ordinary Lives 3. Knowing Place 4. A Sense of Place 5. Disturbi... more 1. ..Arrivals 2. Everyday Places, Ordinary Lives 3. Knowing Place 4. A Sense of Place 5. Disturbing Place 6. Imagining Places 7. Representing Place 8. Place and Power 9. Struggles for Place 10. Departures...

Journal of Rural Studies, 2023

Lameness is a significant health and welfare issue in farmed animals. This paper uses a governmen... more Lameness is a significant health and welfare issue in farmed animals. This paper uses a governmentality approach, which focuses on how a problem is made governable, to examine an emerging 'ecology of devices' introduced to intervene in, and attempt to reduce, on-farm incidence of lameness. These devices are associated with advisers who work with farmers on-farm; they enact lameness as a governable entity, are tools to assess the existence of lameness against established norms, and prescribe actions to be taken in response to evidence of lameness. In doing this they subjectify farmers and advisers into seeing and responding to lameness in particular ways. Using concepts of governmentality alongside other perspectives on the power relations and the simplifications and complexities involved in interventions in animal health and farm practice, the paper draws on indepth research with advisers including vets and other paraprofessionals who work with farmers, and their cows and sheep. It explores how this set of devices introduces particular techniques and practices in lameness management, and produces farmer and adviser subjectivities. It then explores some of the problematics of this mode of governing lameness, including analysis of the limitations and unintended consequences of attempts to simplify lameness management. The paper concludes by arguing that its approach is valuable in analysing ongoing intensification of interventions in farming practices and in understanding the limits of such interventions and the unanticipated divergences from expected conduct.

To explore some of the contours of this meat ‘supply chain integration’ - ‘the phrase of the mome... more To explore some of the contours of this meat ‘supply chain integration’ - ‘the phrase of the moment’ according to Farmers Weekly - this chapter draws on research conducted as part of a project exploring the effects of the emergence of particular types of genetic knowledge-practice in beef cattle and sheep breeding in the UK and their entanglement with ‘traditional’ ways of knowing and valuing livestock. The research is interested in the production and circulation of genetic knowledge-practices in agriculture, in examining how such knowledge-practices become established and gain legitimacy, how they become tangled up with visual and other traditional knowledge-practices, and in the effects of genetic knowledge-practices on how cattle and sheep are bred and managed and on human-nonhuman animal relationships in livestock farming. The research has increasingly led us to explore the process of ‘geneticisation’ beyond the farm gate, to look at how the establishment of particular genetic truths or ways of rendering ‘life itself’ (Franklin, 2000) are entangled with processes of restructuring and differentiation within UK food systems.

European Journal of Agronomy, 1995

Abstract Conservative estimates of global warming suggest that average daily temperature may be r... more Abstract Conservative estimates of global warming suggest that average daily temperature may be raised by 0.5–1.5 °C by the middle of the next century. This would have an impact on agricultural and horticultural production in the U.K., and may result in a changing distribution of crops and the introduc tion of crops which cannot currently be grown in the U.K. The effect of a warmer climate on navy beans ( Phaseolus vulgaris ) and vining peas ( Pisum sativum ) was studied with the aid of a heat unit model. Total thermal receipt for the current and a warmer climate over the growing season of navy beans is compared with thermal requirement (sowing to crop maturity) of the crop. The analysis suggested that parts of Southern England would become thermally suitable for navy bean production, given relatively little global warming (0.5 °C). For vining peas, the contraction of the harvesting period due to a warmer climate, with a resulting increase of risk of a lost crop, is examined by using an accumulated day degree time scale from the start of harvest to the time when the crop is too mature. This analysis indicated that the time available for vining pea harvesting (determined by tenderometer values) may decrease by up to 25 per cent, which would significantly increase the risks in harvesting at the optimum time in traditional production areas. It is suggested that growing vining pea crops at more northerly latitudes than currently would help to compensate for the tendency of increased warming to reduce the period for which the crop could be harvested at optimum maturity.

Environment And Planning D: Society And Space, Dec 1, 2005

In this paper I examine intertwined modes of bodily evaluation and genetic understanding evident ... more In this paper I examine intertwined modes of bodily evaluation and genetic understanding evident in relation to ‘modernising’ tendencies in contemporary agriculture, using a case study of pedigree cattle breeding. These modes afford different perspectives on the same bodies. Visual evaluation is associated with aesthetic appreciation of physically present animal bodies, and takes on a particular intensity in the ritual of judging during agricultural shows. Statistical techniques of genetic evaluation are concerned to construct numerical estimates of the genetic ‘worth’ or ‘potential’ of an animal, which can stand for the animal and be transported over space and time. In both instances, animals become understood through a series of relationships between material bodies, semiotic practices, social institutions, and spatialities, and both constitute different sorts of assessment of something of the interiority of animal bodies from the outside. Both draw on different practical understandings of bodies and of bodily quality, which are directly related to breeding practices and the production and constitution of new animal bodies. I explore the production of different knowledge practices associated with these modes of evaluation, and examine the interplay and tensions between them. Simultaneously taking into account aesthetic and technical knowledge practices is suggested to be valuable in considerations of the constitution of bodies embedded in specific nature–society relations. Finally, it is suggested that there is evidence for an intensification of genetic discourse in livestock breeding, implying continuing processes of change in the knowledge practices of breeding and in the locus of decisionmaking and relations of power in agriculture.

Journal of Rural Studies, Jul 1, 2004

Some actors in the ''mainstream'' agricultural sector are beginning to engage in strategies of in... more Some actors in the ''mainstream'' agricultural sector are beginning to engage in strategies of influencing public perceptions of farming, responding to public anxieties over industrialised agriculture and to a supposed separation of non-farming publics from food production. This paper focuses on agricultural shows as sites and events central to such re-imaging strategies: shows are moments of convergence, assembling farming people, entities, knowledges and practices, and non-farming publics, and allowing agricultural societies to stage managed encounters between farming and non-farmers. The paper draws on research with show managers and others involved in agricultural shows. It discusses how a reorientation of shows' presentation of farming to the nonfarming public has occurred. While there is a continued display of farming as a spectacle, there are also attempts by agricultural societies to use shows to foster a sense of connectedness between the public and farming, and to 'inform' or 'educate' the public, on their terms, about farming. However, first, in several ways, shows reproduce a distancing and separation between farming and nonfarmers, partly due to a partial evacuation of much mainstream agricultural content from some shows, and to the restricted and selective image of farming which is presented. Second, processes of informing and educating non-farming publics and imaging farming in particular ways, are, in addition, associated with a re-imaging of farming to farmers. The reorientation of agricultural shows towards a re-imaging of agriculture can be understood as 'acting back' on farming's perception of itself. Shows thus also involve a reflexive repositioning of farmers in relation to the consumers of their products.

Routledge eBooks, Mar 4, 2011

Book synopsis: Shifting global consumption patterns, tastes and attitudes towards food, leisure, ... more Book synopsis: Shifting global consumption patterns, tastes and attitudes towards food, leisure, travel and place have opened new opportunities for rural producers in the form of agritourism, ecotourism, wine, food and rural tourism and specialized niche market agricultural production for tourism. Agriculture is one of the oldest and most basic parts of the global economy, while tourism is one of the newest and most rapidly spreading. In the face of current problems of climate change, rising food prices, poverty and a global financial crisis, linkages between agriculture and tourism may provide the basis for new solutions in many countries. A number of challenges, nevertheless, confront the realization of synergies between tourism and agriculture. Tourism and Agriculture examines regional specific cases at the interface between tourism and agriculture, looking at the impacts of rural restructuring, and new geographies of consumption and production. To meet the need for a more comprehensive appreciation of the relationships and interactions between the tourism and agricultural economic sectors, this book consider the factors that influence the nature of these relationships; and explore avenues for facilitating synergistic relationships between tourism and agriculture. These relationships are examined in thirteen chapters through case studies from eastern and western Europe, Japan and the United States and from the developing countries of the Pacific, the Caribbean and Ghana and Mexico. Themes of diversification, economic development, and emerging new forms of production and consumption, are integrated throughout the entire book. This essential volume, built on original research, generates new insights into the relationships between tourism and agriculture and future economic rural development. Edited by leading researchers and academics in the field, this book will be of value to students, researchers and academics interested in tourism, agriculture and rural development.

Applied Geography, Apr 1, 1996

Bloomsbury Publishing Plc eBooks, 2021

Tijdschrift voor economische en sociale geografie, Aug 1, 1999

Local Environment, Apr 1, 2008

Environment And Planning E: Nature And Space, Jun 7, 2022

Routledge eBooks, Jan 14, 2014

Journal of Rural Studies, 2023

European Journal of Agronomy, 1995

Environment And Planning D: Society And Space, Dec 1, 2005

Journal of Rural Studies, Jul 1, 2004

Routledge eBooks, Mar 4, 2011

Elsevier eBooks, 2007

Book synopsis: Since the late 1990s, agro-food researchers have identified attempts to re-configu... more Book synopsis: Since the late 1990s, agro-food researchers have identified attempts to re-configure food provision around more ethically sound, economically and ecologically sustainable relationships between food producers, processors and consumers. Largely in the context of developed market economies, notions of relocalization and the quality turn have figured prominently in discussions about these alternative food geographies. Emerging empirical research, however, is now challenging some of the assumptions embedded within such discussions. This book critically reflects on the great diversity of debates and practices surrounding efforts to reform contemporary food provision in different places and spaces. The book is organized into three parts. Following a contextual introduction written by the editors, Part One focuses on theoretical and conceptual issues/debates, especially in relation to power, representations and discourses of the alternative. In other words, how, where and why is the term alternative deployed? Part Two considers the relationship between public policy and alternative food projects, with case studies that examine some of the ways institutions enroll, represent, support and, in some instances, impede the development of certain forms of alternative food provision. Part Three addresses perspectives and practices from different actors and spaces in the food chain, including producers, retailers, consumers and local communities. Going beyond the usual focus on the global north, the book considers the relevance of debates about alternative food networks to the global south. It includes empirically-rich case studies from Europe, North and South America, Australia and Africa, which collectively emphasize the variety of representations and practices involved in constructing alternative food geographies. *Critically examines the efforts to reform contemporary food provision *Addresses concepts and debates, public policy, and alternative production *Includes case studies from around the world

Elsevier eBooks, 2007

... In a related vein, Lewis Holloway, Moya Kneafsey, Rosie Cox, Laura Venn, Elizabeth Dowler and... more ... In a related vein, Lewis Holloway, Moya Kneafsey, Rosie Cox, Laura Venn, Elizabeth Dowler and Helena Tuomainen also attempt in Chapter 5 to ... Part Three ends with a final chapter by TonyBinns, David Bek, Etienne Nel and Brett Ellison which examines the ways in which a ...