Re-assembling sustainable food cities: An exploration of translocal governance and its multiple agencies

Ana Moragues-Faus and Roberta Sonnino
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Ana Moragues-Faus: Cardiff University, UK
Roberta Sonnino: Cardiff University, UK

Urban Studies, 2019, vol. 56, issue 4, 778-794

Abstract: Cities have begun to develop a more ‘place-based approach’ to food policy that emphasises translocal alliances. To understand how such alliances develop distinct capacities to act, in this paper we integrate key theoretical contributions from governance networks, social movements and translocal assemblages. Our analysis focuses on the activities and tools used by the UK’s Sustainable Food Cities Network to assemble local experiences, create common imaginaries and perform collective action. Through these processes, we argue, the network creates cross-scalar, collective and distributive agencies that are modifying incumbent governance dynamics. As we conclude, this raises the need to further explore how translocal configurations can develop forms of power that contest, break or reassemble the relations in the food system that are actively preventing the emergence of more sustainable foodscapes.

Keywords: 环境/å ¯æŒ ç»­æ€§; æ²»ç †; 地方政府; 网络; 政治; è·¨åœ°åŒºæ²»ç †; 都市食å“; environment/sustainability; governance; local government; networks; politics; translocal governance; urban food (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1177/0042098018763038

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