Food Politics, Activism and Alternative Consumer Cooperatives

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-5292-2003-2
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 192 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 449 g

Following the global financial crisis of 2008, there has been significant interest among scholars and activists in alternative forms of organization that operate according to noncapitalist logic, including Alternative Consumer Cooperatives (ACCs).

Using the example of Turkey, where neoliberal economics combined with authoritarian politics formed conditions that have profound social and economic consequences, this book investigates ACCs as spaces for prefigurative food politics.

Offering a novel perspective on alternative forms of organizing, this book challenges the easy assumptions of what it means to be a scholar working on activism in the global north and shows how, through the foundational values of solidarity, reciprocity and responsibility, it is possible to create new and imaginative forms of politics and activism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Oba, Beyza

Özsoy, Zeynep

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie der Lebensart, Well-Being
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Wirtschaftssoziologie, Arbeitssoziologie, Organisationssoziologie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Experimenting with Direct Democracy

The Politics of Food: Alignment for Solidarity and Resistance

Against Neo-Liberalism and Authoritarianism: The Background to Food Politics in Turkey

Political Economy of Consumer Cooperatives in Turkey

Alternative Consumer Cooperatives in the Making of a Public Sphere

Experimenting with an Alternative to the Capitalist Food Provisioning System

The Governance of Alternative Consumer Cooperatives

Instead of a Conclusion

References

Über Autor(innen)

Özsoy, Zeynep
Zeynep Özsoy is Professor in Organization Studies and Acting Dean of Business School at Altinbas University.

Oba, Beyza
Beyza Oba is Professor in Organization Studies at Istanbul Bilgi University.

Beyza Oba is Professor of Organization Studies at Istanbul Bilgi University.

Zeynep Özsoy is Professor of Organization Studies and Dean of Business School at Altinbas University.