
Recognition-Based Systems of Engagement and Exchange for the Development of Alternative Agriculture
Tom Fitzsimons(Author)
Patricia Kennedy(Editor)
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Published on 18. April 2023
Book
Hardback
235 pages
978-1-5275-0176-8 (ISBN)
Description
This book identifies recognition-based systems of engagement and exchange within current alternative food networks, and demonstrates how these fluid micro-structures are fundamental to the development of alternative farming in an Irish context. The author confronts current prevailing discourse by proposing that internal structures of mutual recognition, rather than the market logic of productivist hybrids, underpin successful alternative farms. By adopting a Vygotskian developmental approach, necessarily grounded in communities of practice, the author recognises the expansion of alternative farming in the social-cultural context of 'scaling out', rather than in the clinical economic context of 'scaling up' which is currently supported by the Irish state. The book relies on Honneth's recognition theory and theories of extended cognition as an analytical starting point. Volunteering, participatory observation, and interviewing shaped the immersive component of the research which supports this book, and which is influenced by grounded theory, critical theory and cognitive ethnography.
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Edition
Unabridged edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Newcastle upon Tyne
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Unabridged edition
Product notice
With dust jacket
Dimensions
Height: 212 mm
Width: 148 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-5275-0176-8 (9781527501768)
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Tom Fitzsimons | Patricia Kennedy
Recognition-Based Systems of Engagement and Exchange for the Development of Alternative Agriculture
E-Book
03/2023
1st Edition
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
€247.99
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Persons
Tom Fitzsimons was a writer and researcher who lived in a Gaeltacht (Irish-speaking) community in the South West of Ireland. Having returned to education as a mature student, he completed a PhD in 2020 and sadly passed away in February 2021. This book is based on his doctoral research and continues his goal to contribute to scholarship on rural sociology, alternative agriculture and theoretical and conceptual debates on recognition and distributional cognition and contribute to the policy debate at an international level.