Naming Food After Places: Food Relocalisation and Knowledge Dynamics in Rural Development

Bringing together a range of case studies from Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Poland, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Greece, this book compares and contrasts different models of food re-localization. The richness and complexity of the international case studies provide a broad understanding of the characteristics of the re-localization movement, while the analysis of knowledge forms and dynamics provides an innovative new theoretical approach.Each of the national teams work on the basis of an agreed common framework, resulting in a strongly coherent and comprehensive continental overview. This shows how the actors involved are pursuing their objectives in different regional and national contexts, re-embedding, socially and ecologically, the relation between food production, consumption and places.

Reviews of Naming Food After Places: Food Relocalisation and Knowledge Dynamics in Rural Development

'The book is one of the most succesful attempts of the last years to highlight the relevance of local resources to strategies of sustainable rural development for Europe. While it provides a sound and innovative theoretical framework, the book shows an impressive amount of empirical evidence, covering countries and regions often neglected in the international literature.'Gianluca Brunori, University of Pisa, Italy'Naming Food After Places has two main strengths. First, intrinsically important case studies are brought together within an integrated framework and a common set of questions. Second, each of the local food initiatives is contextualized by reference to history, the current institutional-economic framework, and the specific agroecology of the region. Selections from the book may be assigned for courses in the sociology of agriculture, food, and science to think through the smaller and bigger questions that concern students of food and rural development.' Gastronomica