| Titre : | Digital fooding, cashless marketplaces and reconnection in intermediated third places: conceptualizing metropolitan food provision in the age of prosumption (2021) |
| Auteurs : | R. Stephens ; M. Barbier |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Journal of rural studies (vol. 82, February 2021) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 366-379 |
| Langues : | Anglais |
| Langues du résumé : | Anglais |
| Catégories : |
Catégories principales 11 - COMMERCE ; 11.2 - Commercialisation. DistributionThésaurus IAMM CIRCUIT DE DISTRIBUTION ALTERNATIF ; SYSTEME ALIMENTAIRE ALTERNATIF ; APPROVISIONNEMENT ; ALIMENTATION DURABLE ; PRODUCTION ALIMENTAIRE ; RELATION PRODUCTEUR CONSOMMATEUR ; CONSOMMATEUR ; COMPORTEMENT DU CONSOMMATEUR ; PLATEFORME NUMERIQUE ; CIRCUIT DE COMMERCIALISATION |
| Résumé : | This article adopts the concept of prosumption in order to better understand the array of contemporary food sustainability transition initiatives that often come under the umbrella term of Alternative Food Networks (AFNs). AFNs have developed in parallel to prosumption, which is significant because AFNs are oriented towards localized and direct relationships between producers and consumers, while prosumption explains the hybridization of the consumer into a more complex and productive actor. Scholars argue that producer-consumer reconnections enable greater transparency and information exchange between the two types of actors. In addition, digitalization has recently brought new perspectives for both prosumption and AFN research. We explain the digital food prosumption phenomenon by drawing upon several years of research on an alternative food network with strong digital focus – La Ruche qui dit Oui!. As a decentralized network of local food operations that converge around a digital platform, it provides innovative virtual-material mediations between producers and consumers. This suggests that increasingly, consumers may be getting more deeply engaged in the (co-)production of commodities across different sectors and activities. Thus, while the prosumption and AFN literatures have mostly existed in parallel, future efforts should be made to intersect these two areas of sociological research. This is particularly pertinent today, as both prosumption and AFN phenomena are now increasingly mediated by powerful digital technologies. In the digital age, the alternative food prosumer phenomenon may well contribute to reconfiguring global food flows and industrial cultures towards sustainability. |
| Cote : | Réservé lecteur CIHEAM |
| URL / DOI : | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.11.009 |
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