Toward a Processual Approach to Futurity in Meso-Critical Spaces: Framing Alternative Food Practices in Lyon

Pour une approche processuelle de la futurité dans les espaces méso-critiques – analyse du cadrage de l’alimentaire alternatif lyonnais

Emilie Lanciano () and Séverine Saleilles ()
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Emilie Lanciano: COACTIS - COnception de l'ACTIon en Situation - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - UJM EPE - Université Jean Monnet (EPSCPE), UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2, Chaire ESS de l'Université Lumière Lyon 2
Séverine Saleilles: COACTIS - COnception de l'ACTIon en Situation - UL2 - Université Lumière - Lyon 2 - UJM - Université Jean Monnet - Saint-Étienne - UJM EPE - Université Jean Monnet (EPSCPE), Chaire ESS de l'Université Lumière Lyon 2

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Abstract: This paper analyzes the structuring of alternative food systems, which emerged in response to the shortcomings of industrial agriculture and are driven by citizen-led and entrepreneurial initiatives. Initially marginal, these initiatives are now organized into networks that can be understood as meso-critical spaces. Drawing particularly on the concepts of frame and framing, the article examines how actors collectively construct the futurity. Through a longitudinal study (2008–2024) focused on the Lyon case, it shows that these framings, sometimes coherent, sometimes ambivalent, influence the meso-critical space's capacity to structure itself and transform practices. The central challenge lies in maintaining their alternativity, constantly threatened by processes of hybridization or isomorphism with the conventional model.

Keywords: processus; espaces méso-critiques; système alimentaire alternatif; futurité; cadre (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025-12
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Published in Interventions Economiques : Papers in Political Economy, 2025, 74, ⟨10.4000/15naf⟩

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DOI: 10.4000/15naf

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