Chaire UNESCO Alimentations du monde

Genre et alimentation à l'épreuve de la vie urbaine en Afrique, Amérique latine Asie

Mathilde COUDRAY — 2022-07-01T14:19:39Z

Numéro thématique de la revue Anthropology of Food valorisant plusieurs papiers issus du colloque "Manger en ville" d'octobre 2020.

- Prendre ses distances avec le local ? / Bricas Nicolas, Fournier Tristan, Zirari Hayat, Dasgupta Anindita, Soula Audrey, Lepiller Olivier, Article scientifique, Consommation, Culturelle, Français, Ressources hors Chaire, Depuis 2020, Guétat-Bernard Hélène, Mognard Elise, Narayanan Nipesh Palat

Manger local. Leurres et promesses

Mathilde COUDRAY — 2021-11-03T17:23:40Z

Investir l'espace géographique local serait une solution pour permettre une transition réelle vers des systèmes alimentaires plus écologiques et plus justes. Parce qu'il y a là une évidence partagée au-delà de clivages partisans, il convient d'y regarder de plus près afin de mieux voir les revers d'une telle focalisation sur cette échelle d'action. À cette condition seulement, il sera possible d'échapper à la réduction des problèmes écologiques et économiques aux seuls problèmes scalaires, et par là-même de ne pas faire du local une fin mais un moyen pour d'autres fins.

- Prendre ses distances avec le local ? / Article scientifique, Système alimentaire, Holistique, Français, Ressources hors Chaire, De 2017 à 2020, Paddeu Flaminia

The practice and politics of food system localization

Mathilde COUDRAY — 2021-11-03T17:21:39Z

As an apparent counterpoint to globalization, food system localization is often assumed to be a good, progressive and desirable process. Such thinking rests on a local–global binary that merits closer scrutiny. This paper examines the social construction of “local”, by analyzing the practice and politics of food system localization efforts in Iowa, USA. It argues that desirable social or environmental outcomes may not always map neatly onto the spatial content of “local”, which itself involves the social construction of scale. These contradictions in turn relate to differing political inflections discernible in food system localization. Localization can be approached defensively, emphasizing the boundaries and distinctions between a culturally and socially homogeneous locality needing protection from non-local “others”. But through the experience of new social and gustatory exchanges, localization can also promote increased receptivity to difference and diversity. More emergent, fluid and inclusive notions of the “local”, however, may challenge the very project of crafting and maintaining distinctive food identities for local places. These themes are explored through a case study of food system localization efforts and activities in Iowa, an American state that has been a stronghold of conventional commodity agriculture. Demographic and agricultural histories are drawn on to understand recent food system localization practice that has come to emphasize a definition of “local” that coincides with sub-national state boundaries. The emergence and popularization of the “Iowa-grown banquet meal” and the shifting meaning of “local Iowa food” further illustrate the potential tension between defensiveness and diversity in food system localization.

- Prendre ses distances avec le local ? / Article scientifique, Système alimentaire, Holistique, Anglais, Ressources hors Chaire, Avant 2014, Hinrichs C. Clare

The place of food : mapping out the ‘local' in local food systems

Mathilde COUDRAY — 2021-11-03T17:19:41Z

‘Local food systems' movements, practices, and writings pose increasingly visible structures of resistance and counter-pressure to conventional globalizing food systems. The place of food seems to be the quiet centre of the discourses emerging with these movements. The purpose of this paper is to identify issues of ‘place', which are variously described as the ‘local'and ‘community' in the local food systems literature, and to do so in conjunction with the geographic discussion focused on questions and meanings around these spatial concepts. I see raising the profile of questions, complexity and potential of these concepts as an important role and challenge for the scholar-advocate in the realm of local food systems, and for geographers sorting through them. Both literatures benefit from such a foray. The paper concludes, following a ‘cautiously normative' tone, that there is strong argument for emplacing our food systems, while simultaneously calling for careful circumspection and greater clarity regarding how we delineate and understand the ‘local'. Being conscious of the constructed nature of the ‘local', ‘community' and ‘place' means seeing the importance of local social, cultural and ecological particularity in our everyday worlds, while also recognizing that we are reflexively and dialectially tied to many and diverse locals around the world.

- Prendre ses distances avec le local ? / Article scientifique, Système alimentaire, Holistique, Anglais, Ressources hors Chaire, Avant 2014, Feagan Robert

Should we go “home” to eat ? : toward a reflexive politics of localism

Mathilde COUDRAY — 2021-11-03T17:17:04Z

“Coming home to eat” [Nabhan, 2002. Coming Home to Eat : The Pleasures and Politics of Local Foods. Norton, New York] has become a clarion call among alternative food movement activists. Most food activist discourse makes a strong connection between the localization of food systems and the promotion of environmental sustainability and social justice. Much of the US academic literature on food systems echoes food activist rhetoric about alternative food systems as built on alternative social norms. New ways of thinking, the ethic of care, desire, realization, and vision become the explanatory factors in the creation of alternative food systems. In these norm-based explanations, the “Local” becomes the context in which this type of action works. In the European food system literature about local “value chains” and alternative food networks, localism becomes a way to maintain rural livelihoods. In both the US and European literatures on localism, the global becomes the universal logic of capitalism and the local the point of resistance to this global logic, a place where “embeddedness” can and does happen. Nevertheless, as other literatures outside of food studies show, the local is often a site of inequality and hegemonic domination. However, rather than declaim the “radical particularism” of localism, it is more productive to question an “unreflexive localism” and to forge localist alliances that pay attention to equality and social justice. The paper explores what that kind of localist politics might look like.

- Prendre ses distances avec le local ? / Article scientifique, Système alimentaire, Holistique, Anglais, Ressources hors Chaire, Avant 2014, Goodman David , DuPuis E. Melanie

Avoiding the local trap : scale and food systems in planning research

Mathilde COUDRAY — 2021-11-03T17:15:58Z

A strong current of food-systems research holds that local food systems are preferable to systems at larger scales. Many assume that eating local food is more ecologically sustainable and socially just. We term this the local trap and argue strongly against it. We draw on current scale theory in political and economic geography to argue that local food systems are no more likely to be sustainable or just than systems at other scales. The theory argues that scale is socially produced : scales (and their interrelations) are not independent entities with inherent qualities but strategies pursued by social actors with a particular agenda. It is the content of that agenda, not the scales themselves, that produces outcomes such as sustainability or justice. As planners move increasingly into food-systems research, we argue it is critical to avoid the local trap. The article's theoretical approach to scale offers one way to do so.

- Prendre ses distances avec le local ? / Article scientifique, Système alimentaire, Anglais, Ressources hors Chaire, Avant 2014, Born Branden , Purcell Mark

Realizing justice in local food systems

Mathilde COUDRAY — 2021-11-03T17:12:45Z

For alternative agrifood social movements, food-system localization is both an ideal and a pathway to resolve environmental, social and economic issues in the food system. This article addresses the potential for equity within food-system localization in practical and conceptual terms. Historical processes have shaped regions and social relations with vast differences in wealth, power and privilege and this has implications for thinking about and enacting equity through food-system localization. If food-system localization efforts are to work toward equity, they must consider inherited material and discursive asymmetries within frameworks of economy, demography, geography and democracy.

- Prendre ses distances avec le local ? / Article scientifique, Système alimentaire, Holistique, Anglais, Ressources hors Chaire, Avant 2014, Allen Patricia

Alimentation - Les circuits courts de proximité

Mathilde COUDRAY — 2021-11-03T17:09:27Z

Les circuits courts alimentaires de proximité répondent aujourd'hui à des attentes sur les plans économique et social que ce soit pour :
– le producteur (sécurisation de son modèle économique, reconnaissance du métier),
– le consommateur (« juste prix », qualité, quête de sens),
– un territoire (création d'emplois locaux, économie sociale et solidaire, lien social).
Si les avantages sociaux et économiques de ces modes de distribution semblent évidents, l'Avis de l'ADEME fait le point sur leur impact environnemental.

- Prendre ses distances avec le local ? / Rapport/synthèse, Système alimentaire, Économique, Français, Ressources hors Chaire, De 2017 à 2020

Prendre ses distances avec le local ?

Mathilde COUDRAY — 2021-11-03T14:11:45Z

Où l'on apprend que la relocalisation de notre alimentation permet notamment de restaurer des liens de confiance entre producteurs et consommateurs, souvent rompus par l'industrialisation et la globalisation des chaînes alimentaires. Mais où l'on réalise qu'il est tout à fait possible de reproduire localement des dysfonctionnements constatés à d'autres échelles ou de promouvoir un localisme étriqué. Et où l'on découvre l'idée d'un localisme cosmopolite…

- Prendre ses distances avec le local ? / Bricas Nicolas, Conaré Damien, Système alimentaire, Holistique, Français, Chapitre de l'ouvrage, Depuis 2020, Chapitre d'ouvrage, consommation locale, relocaliser la production, inconvénients de manger local, tendance manger local