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Just-in-case transitions and the pursuit of resilient food systems: enumerative politics and what it means to make care count.
- Source :
- Agriculture & Human Values; Sep2023, Vol. 40 Issue 3, p1055-1066, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- This paper represents one of the first critical social science interrogations of an agrifood just-in-case transition. The just-in-case transition speaks to a philosophy that values building buffers and flexibility into longer value chains to make them more resilient to shocks, which stands in contrast to the just-in-time philosophy with its emphasis on long, specialized, and often inflexible networks. Influenced by COVID-related disruptions and climate change induced uncertainties, the just-in-case transition examined here centers on the heightened interest in vertical farm-anchored supply chains. Interviewing actors responsible for promoting vertical farm-anchored local supply chains in the US and Canada, I attempt to sketch out how these spaces, infrastructures, and practices care. Put differently, as understood through a feminist ethics of care, whom and what are cared for and how is care practiced in these just-in-case transitions and why? Enumerative politics was observed in the data—the idea that we can make care count. Practices and discourses linked to infrastructural/supply chain transitions are highlighted that result in care being narrowly conceived as a technical or transactional matter. The paper concludes reflecting on what it means to afford just-in-case agrifood transitions animated by matters of care that hold greater emancipatory potentials. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FEMINIST ethics
VALUE chains
SUPPLY chains
VERTICAL farming
CLIMATE change
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0889048X
- Volume :
- 40
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Agriculture & Human Values
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 170748157
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10401-7