Politics Within Associations of Food Production and Distribution. Ethnography of an Alternative Food System in a City in Eastern France

Abstract

Alternative agri-food initiatives have the ambition to build an alternative to the market and industrialization, but these initiatives are nevertheless accused of depoliticization. Scarcely prone to subversion, allegedly they would only address the upper classes and fail to create a movement. An ethnographic survey among these initiatives in a city in eastern France, provides answers to these questions, showing a different definition of the economy re-embedded in politics and territory.

Keywords

• csas
• shared gardens
• associations
• food
• political movements