Recognition-based systems of engagement and exchange for the development of alternative agriculture / edited by Tom Fitzsimons and Patricia Kennedy.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fitzsimons, Tom, editor.

Kennedy, Patricia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternative agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (233 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, [2023]

Summary:

This book identifies recognition-based systems of engagement and exchange within current alternative food networks, and demonstrates how these fluid micro-structures are fundamental to the development of alternative farming in an Irish context. The author confronts current prevailing discourse by proposing that internal structures of mutual recognition, rather than the market logic of productivist hybrids, underpin successful alternative farms. By adopting a Vygotskian developmental approach, necessarily grounded in communities of practice, the author recognises the expansion of alternative farming in the social-cultural context of 'scaling out', rather than in the clinical economic context of 'scaling up' which is currently supported by the Irish state. The book relies on Honneth's recognition theory and theories of extended cognition as an analytical starting point. Volunteering, participatory observation, and interviewing shaped the immersive component of the research which supports this book, and which is influenced by grounded theory, critical theory and cognitive ethnography.

Contents:

Intro

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Appendix One

Bibliography.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-5275-0177-9

OCLC:

1377818320