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Alternative Food Provisioning Communities: Participation, Community, and Happiness

This article explores the impact of participation in Alternative Food Provisioning Communities on well-being, community building, and happiness. It examines the perceptions, challenges, and contradictions faced by AFCs within their practice. The study highlights the potential for socially, environmentally, and economically just food provisioning systems.

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Alternative Food Provisioning Communities: Participation, Community, and Happiness

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  1. 5th International Degrowth Conference Participation and happiness Alternative food provisioning communities in Barcelona Helen Zaiser Master Student of Interdisciplinary Studies in Environmental, Economic and Social Sustainability Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) Autonomous University of Barcelona

  2. Outline • Alternative Food Provisioning Communities • Participation, community and happiness • Argument and findings • Conclusion

  3. Alternative Food Provisioning Communities

  4. Participation, community and happiness

  5. Argument and findings How do AFC members perceive their practice? Youhavetosaythat this modelexists, becauseitallowsyoutoeatmorehealthily.[...]It is goodforyou, goodforyourbodyandit is also a form ofintegratingyouintothesociety. (Standard cooperativemember)

  6. Argument and findings How does participation in AFCs influence well-being? It [the foodsaving initiative][…] makes me much happier: for the fact that I am in a place where I feel like home and for participatingorfightingforsomethingthat I considerimportant. (Foodsaver)

  7. Argument and findings What are the challenges & contradictions that AFCs are confronted with within their practice? • Focus on individual behaviour (consumer choice)  exclusion & co-optation • Neglect broader aims: social and environmental justice ( social transformation)

  8. Food for thought ‘The overarching argument I develop is that contemporary food sensibilities and activism, as well as the scholarship that supports it, have helped produce some neoliberal governmentalities.’ (Guthman, 2006)

  9. Conclusion We have to know [andaccept], that not everyone is interested in [critical] consumption. (Cooperative member)

  10. Conclusion Path towards socially, environmentally and economically just (post-productivist) food provisioning • co-existing, inter-connected ‘alternatives’

  11. Conclusion Perhaps it matters that AFNs are short and small [...]. Perhaps there is something valuable about being short and small that counts against scaling up AFNs. (Navin, 2016)

  12. References Guthman, J. (2006). Neoliberalismandthemakingoffoodpolitics in California. Geoforum, 39(3), 1171–1183. http://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.09.002 Navin, M. (2016). Scaling-Up Alternative Food Networks. Journal ofSocialPhilosophy, 46(4), 434–448. Pictures: https://rutadelaseda.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/foodconferencelogo-1.jpg http://media-cache-ec0.pinimg.com/originals/d9/0e/71/d90e712b686dd20f2c2765bb4bb01f81.jpg https://ecosectores.com/Portals/0/Articulos/Imagenes/cooperativa.jpg (cooperativa.jpg)

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