Reluctant pioneers in the European periphery? Environmental activism, food consumption and “growing your own”

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2017.1289160" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2017.1289160</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2017.1289160" target="_blank" >10.1080/13549839.2017.1289160</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Reluctant pioneers in the European periphery? Environmental activism, food consumption and “growing your own”

Original language description

East European food self-provisioning (FSP) has fascinated scholars of post-socialism ever since the early 1990s. In keeping with its predominantly economic and cultural conceptualisations, much of this research has been concerned with FSP’s role in household economy and with the social profile of its practitioners. In contrast to western conceptualisations of FSP as an opportunity to expand food activism and foster social justice and environmental sustainability, post-socialist FSP has rarely been considered as such. In Czechia, FSP is practised by 43% of citizens and many of them do so in a relatively environmentally friendly way. Yet, most food-related campaigns run by environmental NGOs (ENGOs) pay little attention to FSP and focus on market-based ethical consumerism and alternative food networks instead. Using insights from actor-network theory, this paper discusses how Czech ENGO activists engage with FSP through discourse and in practice. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews with leading activists, we show that FSP does figure in non-food-related campaigns and that the FSP practised by activists themselves or the FSP carried out by relatives and relatives’ friends are not the same as the FSP on which they are reluctant to campaign. These differences, which include controllability and the time-consuming nature of practising FSP according to some of the activists’ ideals, help this paper to come to an initial understanding of why Czech ENGOs do not run campaigns explicitly focused on FSP at the moment and shed some light on how this could change in the future.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_SC - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50704 - Environmental sciences (social aspects)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GA14-33094S" target="_blank" >GA14-33094S: Forms and norms of alternative economic practices in the Czech Republic</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2017

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Local Environment

ISSN

1354-9839

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

22

Issue of the periodical within the volume

7

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

809-824

UT code for WoS article

000401732200002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85011798189