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Adventurous food futures: knowing about alternatives is not enough, we need to feel them

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This paper investigates how we can enact, collectively, affording food systems. Yet rather than asking simply what those assemblages might look like the author enquires as to how they might also feel. Building on existing literature that speaks to the radically relational, and deeply affective, nature of food the aims of this paper are multiple: to learn more about how moments of difference come about in otherwise seemingly banal encounters; to understand some of the processes by which novelty ripples out, up, and through social bodies; to speak to, and suggest ways to resolve, ontological asymmetries within the agrifood literature pertaining to Cartesian dualisms; and to offer ways forward that allow agrifood scholars to talk about phenomena such as feelings and structures/barriers in the same sentence. The empirical flesh of the paper comes from an admittedly unconventional case study. On December 10, 2012, Amendment 64 was added to Colorado’s constitution making it legal for adults to consume marijuana for recreational purposes. The case examined is not about pot, however. The paper, rather, is about hopeful, hydroponic-inspired, agrifood futures; novel doings, feelings, and thinkings sparked by, among other things, food grown in basements and spare bedrooms. Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2016

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  • Michael Carolan, 2016. "Adventurous food futures: knowing about alternatives is not enough, we need to feel them," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 33(1), pages 141-152, March.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:agrhuv:v:33:y:2016:i:1:p:141-152
    DOI: 10.1007/s10460-015-9629-4
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    1. Paul Hebinck & Henk Oostindie, 2018. "Performing food and nutritional security in Europe: claims, promises and limitations," Food Security: The Science, Sociology and Economics of Food Production and Access to Food, Springer;The International Society for Plant Pathology, vol. 10(6), pages 1311-1324, December.
    2. Kathryn Pavlovich & Alison Henderson & David Barling, 2021. "Organizing for thoughtful food: a meshwork approach," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 38(1), pages 145-155, February.
    3. Elizabeth A. Bennett, 2018. "Extending ethical consumerism theory to semi-legal sectors: insights from recreational cannabis," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 35(2), pages 295-317, June.
    4. Nathan Clay & Alexandra E. Sexton & Tara Garnett & Jamie Lorimer, 2020. "Palatable disruption: the politics of plant milk," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 37(4), pages 945-962, December.
    5. Carrie Chennault & Laura Klavitter & Lynn Sutton, 2019. "Visceral Encounters: A Political Ecology of Urban Land, Food, and Housing in Dubuque, Iowa," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 8(4), pages 1-25, April.
    6. Kate Cairns & Josée Johnston, 2018. "On (not) knowing where your food comes from: meat, mothering and ethical eating," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 35(3), pages 569-580, September.
    7. Hugh Campbell, 2016. "In the long run, will we be fed?," Agriculture and Human Values, Springer;The Agriculture, Food, & Human Values Society (AFHVS), vol. 33(1), pages 215-223, March.

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