Local food movements: from prefigurative activism to social innovations
(2017) Interface : a journal for and about social movements — Vol. 9, n° 1, p. 123-139 (2017)
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- This article provides an analysis of the action logics and challenges that underline the evolution of the local food sector in Belgium and the challenges that these actors face in a new stage of the movement for local, organic and fair food. Since 2000, disparate local movements have spread all over Belgium, in the wave of the alter-globalization movements, critical consumerism and prefigurative and concrete actions against neoliberalism. Regional networks of those groups have progressively emerged, and have become socio-political actors. While prefigurative activism and the original critical stances towards markets and mainstream economics remain present in many groups, a rising part of the local food activists now draw on a confluence of critical consumption, ecological transition, the social economy and solidarity and local development.
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Pleyers, G. (2017). Local food movements: from prefigurative activism to social innovations. Interface : a journal for and about social movements, 9(1), 123-139. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/90928 (Original work published 2017)