Knowledge networks for a versatile countryside

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dc.contributor.authorFlora, Cornelia B.en
dc.contributor.departmentSustainable Agriculture and Natural Resource Management (SANREM) Knowledgebaseen
dc.coverage.spatialUnited Statesen
dc.date.accessioned2016-04-19T19:45:49Zen
dc.date.available2016-04-19T19:45:49Zen
dc.date.issued2008en
dc.description.abstractThe dominant socio-technical regime for existing agrifood system in the U.S. is successful in terms of generating profits for the food system. Its large scale, tendency to monocultures, centralization and vertical integration has allowed it to externalize costs and concentrate profits and control. Yet a variety of social movements challenge the dominant socio-technical agrifood regime. In 2008, they are somewhat uneasily coalescing around the Good Food Movement. Social movements depend on framing processes, resource mobilization, and opportunity processes, which allow the emergence and success of a variety of Social Movement Organizations (SMOs) that work together in a variety of ways. By analyzing transitions processes in the U.S. in terms of the social movements that are engaged in the transition, the dynamic nature of those processes can best be understood. New social movement theories can inform this analysis. New social movement organizations are in contrast to the subject of social movement analysis prior to 1968: class struggle. New social movements, often based on identity that transcended economic interests, provide most of the social movement organizations (SMOs) that are part of the Good Food movement, which is attempting to change the socio-technical regime and transition to agrifood systems that are green, healthy, fair, affordable and local.en
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier4065en
dc.identifier.citationPaper presented at the European Eemland Conference: Versatile Countryside, Eemlandhoeve, Bunschoten, The Netherlands, 22 October 2008en
dc.identifier.other4065_transition_to_usa.pdfen
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/68331en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectFood strategyen
dc.subjectSocial capitalen
dc.subjectSocial movementsen
dc.subjectAgrifood systemsen
dc.subjectSocial movementsen
dc.subjectGood food movementen
dc.subjectGreenen
dc.subjectEcosystemen
dc.titleKnowledge networks for a versatile countrysideen
dc.title.alternativeTransition processes in the USAen
dc.typePresentationen
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