Routledge Handbook of Food As a Commons.
From the scientific and industrial revolution to the present day, food - an essential element of life - has been progressively transformed into a private, transnational, mono-dimensional commodity of mass consumption for a global market. But over the last decade there has been an increased recogniti...
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; Co-Writers; Preface; Chapter 1 Introduction: The food commons are coming ... ; Seeing with new eyes; Valuing food as a commodity is at odds with human history; The thriving commons as a civic counter-movement to the global food crises; The multiplicity of commons: different vocabularies, understandings and practices; The different meanings of the commons to economists and policy makers; The charter to navigate the chapters; Un-common exploration of food commons; Note; Bibliography.
- Part I Rebranding food and alternative narratives of transitionChapter 2 The idea of food as a commons: Multiple understandings for multiple dimensions of food; What is the dominant narrative of food?; What are the commons? Multiple understandings; Epistemic regards on food in academia and grassroots activism; Understandings of commons and food are multiple and phenomenological; The rationale to consider and govern food as a commons; A disruptive paradigm shift: the food commons system; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 3 The food system as a commons; Introduction.
- Food system made of multiple commonsFrom elements to phases: a commons-based approach to the food system; Food system as a commons: theories and practices; Conclusions; Notes; References; Chapter 4 Growing a care-based commons food regime; Introduction; Rethinking the food regime theory; Another new kind of food regime: the commons food regime; Challenges from anti-capitalism perspectives; Care is the core of growing a commons food regime; Entering a new epoch of history; Notes; References; Chapter 5 New roles for citizens, markets and the state towards an open-source agricultural revolution.
- IntroductionA P2P-driven phase transition; The partner state: a theoretical approach; Setting up an open-source agricultural revolution; COFARMIN: a blueprint for a commons-based agricultural system; Proposals for a partner state-enabled transition in food provisioning; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; Chapter 6 Food security as a global public good; Introduction; The multiple interpretations of food security; Multiple understandings of a public good; Concluding remarks; Acknowledgements; References; Part II Exploring the multiple dimensions of food; Chapter 7 Food, needs and commons.
- IntroductionFood as a need and food as a public good; Needs, markets and the moral economies of subsistence; The moral economies of solidarity; Common property, freedom and need; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Chapter 8 Community-based commons and rights systems; The goal and the pathway; Food viewed as commons or as commodity; The historic shift in motivations; Marginalization of food workers; Designing community-based commons; Rights systems; Right to food; Making charity unnecessary; Social and environmental dimensions; Conclusion; Notes; References.
