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The Politics And Ethics Of Food Localism: An Exploratory Quantitative Inquiry, Sean T. Doody
The Politics And Ethics Of Food Localism: An Exploratory Quantitative Inquiry, Sean T. Doody
Theses and Dissertations
The local food movement has become a prominent force in the U.S. food market, as represented by the explosive expansion of direct-to-consumer (DTC) marketplaces across the country. Concurrent with the expansion of these DTC marketplaces has been the development of the social ideal of localism: a political and ethical paradigm that valorizes artisanal production and smallness, vilifies globalization, and seeks to recapture a sense of place and community that has been lost under the alienating conditions of capitalism’s gigantism. Supporters of localism understand the movement to be a substantial political and economic threat to global capitalism, and ascribe distinct, counter-hegemonic …