Wednesday, July 17, 2013
CALL FOR PAPERS: Cooperatives and Alternative Food Systems Initiatives
The Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development calls for papers on a wide range of topics (and geographic areas) that explore the intersection of cooperatives with alternative food systems initiatives.
Papers could include topics related to:
- Consumer cooperatives, farmer co-ops, worker co-ops, cooperative food hubs, fair-trade co-ops, multistakeholder co-ops, cooperative farms
- Challenges, barriers, best practices, key tools, strategies
- How these initiatives embody new forms of "food citizenship" and alternative governance structures that bridge the production-consumption divide
- The role of technology (e.g. websites, new media, video, RFID tags, matchmaking/logistics software platforms)
- Innovative organizational structures and governance
- Policy, advocacy, or regulatory issues
- Economic, social, and/or environmental impact assessments
- Economic viability or new institutional economics
- How these initiatives are incubators of social innovation and inform changes in wider society
- Cooperation among cooperatives and cooperatives' support organizations
- Transformative learning in cooperatives
- Organizational design to protect social justice goals
- Concerns about gender, race, culture, class, and justice
- The relationships between farmers, consumers and workers in and across cooperatives
- The relationship between cooperatives and food democracy, food justice, and food sovereignty
- Social capital or social embeddedness
Deadline (full manuscripts): August 1, 2013