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— Food for Degrowth
Degrowth Summer School, Cerbere 2019
Dr. Ferne Edwards
Research Fellow, RMIT Europe & WP1 Lead, EdiCitNet
ferne.edwards@rmit.edu.au The EdiCitNet project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon
1 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 776665.
What is food for degrowth?
Examples
To consider aspects of: Video: https://
• Sustainable/ethical diets
• Material theecologist.org/2018/oct/31/
• Methods and process of: production,
• Social degrowth-suburbs
consumption, distribution, waste
• Politics
• Informal food systems
• Systemic SHARECITY 100:
• Food sovereignty strategies
• Values https://sharecity.ie/research/
• Food waste/ rescue, foraging
• Notions of care sharecity100-database/
• Ethical consumption?
• Human/ nonhuman
• Packaging and energy
relationships
• Water and phosphate use/conservation/reuse
• The senses
• Urban gardens
• Place • CSAs
• Time
• Food sharing practices – new technologies!
• Interest
• Food hubs and labs
• Gender
• Old and new; a return to the traditional and
• Culture
innovative approaches
• Governance • fair trade, organic farms, farmer’s markets,
community supported agriculture, urban
gardening
The EdiCitNet project has received funding from the European Union’s
• More and more and more 2
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement
no. 776665.
SHARECITY 100: 100 cities > 4000 initiatives
— Background
Housing for Degrowth – Anitra & Francois
Anitra & me
• Co-editors for Food for Degrowth
• Academic-activists from CUR, Australia
• Anitra has a strong background in politics
Me - Cultural anthropologist / applied anthro
Specialise in cities, food & social movements
• Food waste subcultures
• 2x Australian ethical consumption projects
• Sustainable cities at VEIL
• AFNs in Australia – glean, grow and gift
• Food sovereignty in Venezuela
• ICT food sharing: SHARECITY100 &
ethnographies in Melb & Barcelona, SHARECITY
• EdiCitNet > 12+ international edible cities
• Book writing addiction: ‘Food for Degrowth’, ‘Food,
the Senses and the City’, ‘Untaming the Urban’,
‘Bees and the City: Multispecies Encounters and
Sustainable Urban Futures’, ‘Global Food
Resistance Movements’
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research and innovation programme under grant agreement no. 776665.
Today:
— The Food for Degrowth book project
• Food links to many other topics
• Next in the ‘For Degrowth’ series
• It often raises more Qs than As
• Received close to 50 responses
• Use topics from book as discussion
• Selected approx. 30 from around the world
points – we can’t cover everything!
• >> 2 volumes
• Relate this back to what you’ve already
• Different scales, some theoretical, others practical
learnt
• In progress!
• Build on experience from other projects
• 6 points – we’ll discuss them as a group
Vol I: Food waste, self-provisioning and as we go along
alternative food movements
Part I. Urban contexts for food for degrowth
Part II. Waste
Part III. Food Self Provisioning
Part IV. Alternative food movements Topics:
1. Urban contexts (and utopia)
Vol II: Food products, processes and 2. Waste (and discourse)
integrated systems 3. Food Self Provisioning (quiet degrowth)
Part I. Food products and processes
Part II. Food for degrowth and care
4. Food and care for degrowth
Part III. Community supported agriculture 5. Integrated food growing & processing clusters
Part IV. Integrated food growing and processing 6. Alternative Food Networks
clusters The EdiCitNet project has received funding from the
European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and
innovation
4 programme under grant agreement no.
776665.
SHARECITY: //sharecity.ie/research/sharecity100-database/
— Additional sources and references VEIL: https://veil.msd.unimelb.edu.au/
Open Table: https://www.open-table.org/
In Edwards, F. & Nelson, A. (forthcoming) Food for Degrowth. London: Routledge:
• Dale, J. Permaculture and degrowth: Cross-pollinating food practices Community Economies: https://www.communityeconomies.org/
• Daněk, P. & Jehlička, P. Quietly degrowing: Food self-provisioning in Central Europe Permablitz Melbourne: https://www.permablitz.net/
• Hepp, C. Food waste discourses: Rotten or valuable material?
• Edwards, F. Overcoming stigma by consuming waste at the Open Table
• Lambert, D. Recycling old ideals? Circular food systems in an historic canvas of ideal cities
• Strenchock, L. Germinating Degrowth? On-farm adaptation and survival in Hungarian alternative food networks
• Szakál, D. & Balázs, B. Food for degrowth in Budapest Food City Labs.
Darling, J. (2011) Giving space: Care, generosity and belonging in a UK asylum drop-in centre, Geoforum, 42: 408–417.
Edwards,F. & Davies, A. (2018) Connective Consumptions: Mapping Melbourne’s Food Sharing Ecosystem, Urban Policy & Research
Edwards, F. (2011) Small, Slow and Shared: Emerging Social Innovations in Urban Australian Foodscapes, Australian Humanities Review, Nov.: 115-–134.
Edwards, F. (2017) ‘Alternative Food Networks’ in Thompson,P. & D. Kaplan Encyclopaedia of Food and Agricultural Ethics, Springer
Edwards, F. & Mercer, D. (2013) Food waste in Australia: The freegan response, The Sociological Review Monograph Series, 60(S2), December: 174–191.
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Economics 20: 107-112.
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Levitas, R. (2013) Utopia as method: the imaginary reconstruction of society. Palgrave Macmillan.
Maniates, M.F. (2006) Individualization: Plant a Tree, Buy a Bike, Save the World? Global Environmental Politics, 1(3), pp.31-52, August.
Puig de la Bellacasa, M. (2017) Matters of Care: Speculative Ethics in More Than Human Worlds. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press.
Shillington, L. (2013) Right to food, right to the city: Household urban agriculture, and socionatural metabolism in Managua, Nicaragua, Geoforum, 44: 103–111.
Smith, J. & Jehlička, P. (2013) Quiet sustainability: Fertile lessons from Europe's productive gardeners, Journal of Rural Studies 32: 148-157
Steel, C. (2008) Hungry City. How Food Shapes our Lives. London: Chatto & Windus.
Tronto, J. (1993) Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care. New York: Routledge.
Tronto, J. C. & Fisher, B. (1990) Toward a Feminist Theory of Caring. In E. Abel, & M. Nelson (eds.), Circles of Care (pp. 36-54). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Williams, M. (2016A) Justice and care in the city: uncovering everyday practices through research volunteering, Area, pp.1-8. DOI: 10.1111/area.12278
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Williams, M. (2016B) Care-full Justice in the City, Antipode, pp.1-19. DOI: 10.1111/anti.12279
Thank you!
Dr. Ferne Edwards
Research Fellow, EdiCitNet
Email: ferne.edwards@rmit.edu.au
RMIT Europe, Barcelona
rmit.eu
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