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Academic Knowledge Production : Framework of Practical Activity in the Context of Transformative Food Studies
- Source :
- Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Vol 4 (2020)
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- We have seen an emergence of transformative food studies as part of sustainability transitions. While some scholars have successfully opened up their experiences of pursuing transformation through scholar-activism, assumptions underlying researchers' choices and how scholars orient to and go about their work often remain implicit. In this article, we bring forth a practice theoretical understanding of knowledge production and advocate that researchers turn to examining their own research practice. We ask how to make our own academic knowledge production/research practice more explicit, and why it is important to do so in the context of transformative food studies. To help scholars to reflect on their own research practice, we mobilize the framework of practical activity (FPA). We draw on our own experiences in academia and use our ethnographic studies on self-reliant food production and procurement to illustrate academic knowledge production. Thus, this article provides conceptual and methodological tools for reflection on academic research practice and knowledge production. We argue that it is important for researchers to turn to and improve their own academic practice because it advances academic knowledge production in the domain of transformative food studies and beyond. While we position ourselves within the qualitative research tradition, we believe that the insights of this article can be applied more broadly in different research fields and across various methodological approaches.
- Subjects :
- academic practice
Global and Planetary Change
REFLECTION
US
Ecology
lcsh:TP368-456
LOCAL FOOD
knowledge production
lcsh:TX341-641
Horticulture
Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
practice epistemology
WORKING
NETWORKS
lcsh:Food processing and manufacture
MOVEMENT
research methods
JUSTICE
416 Food Science
food economy
transformative food studies
practice theory
Agronomy and Crop Science
lcsh:Nutrition. Foods and food supply
Food Science
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, Vol 4 (2020)
- Accession number :
- edsair.dedup.wf.001..7bfa73193bc405a23d925ee480b57a88