Counter crimes and food democracy: suspects and citizens remaking the food system

Sue Booth, John Coveney and Dominique Paturel ()
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Sue Booth: Flinders University
John Coveney: Flinders University
Dominique Paturel: UMR Innovation - Innovation et Développement dans l'Agriculture et l'Alimentation - Cirad - Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement - INRA - Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique - Montpellier SupAgro - Centre international d'études supérieures en sciences agronomiques - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier

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Abstract: This chapter acknowledges the concept of food crime within the current global industrialised food system and explores three examples of crimes of consumption. A variety of acts of citizen resistance or ‘counter crimes' in response to food crime are discussed. Counter crimes can be seen as a spectrum of acts of crime or disobedience, which have used food to make public statements. Both opposition and constructivist politics are employed in counter crime. Constructivist activities are incubators for the emergence of new food systems, while oppositional activities focus on the current food system. Constructivist efforts involve fostering and building different food systems for consumers, underpinned by democratic processes, for example farmer's markets and community gardens. Actions underpinned by democratic principles, constitute a participatory movement whereby citizens exert some modicum of control over their food system. Collectively known as food democracy, it offers some hope in ‘re-making' an honest food system.

Keywords: counter crime; alternative food system; food democraty; oppositional politics; constructivist politics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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Published in A handbook of food crime: immoral and illegal practices in the food industry and what to do about them, Policy Press, 442 p., 2018, 978-1-4473-3601-3 978-1-4473-3603-7. ⟨10.1332/policypress/9781447336013.003.0023⟩

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DOI: 10.1332/policypress/9781447336013.003.0023

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