[phd.students.socioeco] WG: [ASFS] call for papers: Alternative Food and Drink Markets

[Dobernig, Karin]

Maybe interesting :) 

>CALL FOR PAPERS
>
>Food and Drink Markets:
>The Production and Consumption of Alternative Market Practices and 
>Narratives
>
>Conference stream of the 9th International Conference in Critical 
>Management Studies ‘Is there an alternative? Management after 
>critique’ University of Leicester: 8-10 July, 2015.
>
>Abstract deadline: 31 January, 2015.
>
>Food and drink markets are situated at the intersection of the global 
>and local, the economic and cultural, the political and passionate.
>Amidst growing concerns about food-related security, safety, 
>environmental degradation and social injustice, we are witness to a 
>proliferation of alternatives. These are rediscovering, inventing, 
>adapting and developing different approaches to the production, 
>distribution and procurement of food and drink. The socio-cultural 
>significance of food for individuals and groups means that the 
>viability of alternative food and drink markets is intertwined with 
>consumers’ desires for goods, services and market relations that 
>offer a sense of authenticity and identity in a global marketplace 
>otherwise crowded with homogeneous, standardized offerings and 
>instrumental modes of exchange. Examples such as Slow Food, CSA 
>schemes, foraging, food swaps, and biodynamic production underline two 
>concurrent dynamics. First, the crises facing the hegemonic global food 
>system are inseparable from the systemic and perpetual crises of capitalism.
>And second, the possibility for alternatives is being practiced in the 
>here and now.
>
>What can we learn from the specific practices and narratives of 
>alternative food and drink market actors, and the forms of organizing 
>and identity that make the production and consumption of such markets 
>possible? Relevant contributions include but are not limited to such 
>topics as:
>• alternative market narratives: How is ‘doing things diffeerently’ 
>made intelligible and credible to others?
>• alternative market devices and approaches: How are alternative 
>markets practiced?
>• alternative market identities: How do producers’, consumeers’ and 
>intermediaries’ identities enable alternative modes of operating?
>• alternative futures: How scalable are alternative approaches, andd to 
>what extent do they disrupt and/or reproduce existing market relations, 
>inequalities and values?
>• mainstreaming alternatives: How credible are alternatives when thheir 
>wares start to occupy supermarket shelves?
>• alternative points of view: Case studies from the perspective of 
>practitioners are welcome.
>
>Abstract Submission:
>• Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 January, 2015.
>• Abstracts should be 500 words maximum, saved as a word document ((no 
>pdfs please) and include affiliation and contact details for author(s).
>• Abstracts should be emailed to Jennifer Smith Maguire (jbs7 at le.acc.uk).
>• Authors will be notified of the outcome of their submission by 20 
>March 2015 at the latest.
>
>Please direct questions to any of the stream conveners: Jennifer Smith 
>Maguire (jbs7 at le.ac.uk); John Lang (lang at oxy.edu); David Watson 
>(djwats at essex.ac.uk).
>
>Further conference information can be found here:
>http://www2.le.ac.uk/conference/cms15
>
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