Convention theory in Anglophone agri-food studies: French legacies, circulation and new perspectives

Emmanuelle Cheyns () and Stefano Ponte
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Emmanuelle Cheyns: UMR MOISA - Marchés, Organisations, Institutions et Stratégies d'Acteurs - 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 - CIHEAM-IAMM - Centre International de Hautes Etudes Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Institut Agronomique Méditerranéen de Montpellier - CIHEAM - Centre International de Hautes Études Agronomiques Méditerranéennes - Montpellier SupAgro - Institut national d’études supérieures agronomiques de Montpellier
Stefano Ponte: Copenhagen Business School

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Abstract: The French school of convention theory has influenced various branches of agro-food studies in the past two decades, as part of a wider trend in the Anglophone social sciences. It provided analytical and theoretical insight for examining alternative food networks, the 'quality turn' and various forms of coordination and governance in agro-food value chains. In this chapter, we examine how convention theory was introduced in Anglophone agro-food studies, and what results and patterns of diffusion have ensued. We discuss similarities and divergences that characterize the Anglophone literature in comparison to the French school, and highlight the new issues and approaches it introduced. We also reflect upon the extension of convention theory towards the related 'regimes of engagement' approach, which evolved from French pragmatic sociology. Finally, we highlight three further analytical, methodological and empirical developments that are needed to carry this research agenda forward.

Keywords: sociologie économique; analyse économique; coordination; incertitude statistique; situation économique; secteur agro-alimentaire; Anglophone studies; Économie des conventions; Sociologie des régimes d'engagement; Agro food vlaue chains; Coordination; économie des conventions; convention theory (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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Published in Allaire Gilles (ed.); Daviron Benoit (ed.). Ecology, capitalism and the new agricultural economy: The second great transformation, Routledge, pp.71-94, 2019, Critical Food Studies, 978-0-8153-8161-7

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