Rendering the Actually Existing Sharing Economy Visible: Home-Grown Food and the Pleasure of Sharing

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F17%3A00094833" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/17:00094833 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soru.12160/full" target="_blank" >http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/soru.12160/full</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/soru.12160" target="_blank" >10.1111/soru.12160</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Rendering the Actually Existing Sharing Economy Visible: Home-Grown Food and the Pleasure of Sharing

Original language description

Despite the unprecedented attention paid to the sharing economy and despite the growing interest in household food production, the non-market and non-monetised sharing of home-grown food – a social practice at the intersection of these two concerns – has so far largely escaped scholars’ attention. The goal of the article is twofold. First, drawing on a large-scale survey (2058 respondents) and four focus groups conducted in the Czech Republic in 2015, the article shows that in the Global North the sharing of home-grown food is a surprisingly widespread and economically and environmentally significant practice. Second, the article to some extent aims to break with the research tradition that deems studies conducted in the periphery of the Global North lacking in potential to produce more generally valid insights. It therefore seeks to counter the scripting of Eastern Europe on the margins of the geographies of knowledge production. The article contests the causal link between economic hardship and informal food practices, views these practices as sustainability by outcome rather than intention, and suggests they are compatible with the tenets of alternative food networks. While not perceived as sites of outright resistance to capitalism, these spaces are viewed by practitioners as constituting valuable domains of socially and culturally motivated human interactions, driven by the desire for fresh and healthy food, fulfilling personal hobbies, and the development of enjoyable social ties.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50700 - Social and economic geography

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

Sociologia ruralis

ISSN

0038-0199

e-ISSN

1467-9523

Volume of the periodical

57

Issue of the periodical within the volume

3

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

23

Pages from-to

274-296

UT code for WoS article

000405291900002

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85021975916