Alternative Food Networks in the consumption-production of urban space: comparative case study Brazil - Colombia

Author(s)

César Andrés Alzate Hoyos

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: Presidente Prudente. 2021-11-19.
• Institution: Universidade Estadual Paulista (Unesp). Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia. Presidente Prudente
• Defense date: 2021-10-05
• Advisor: Maria Encarnação Beltrão Sposito

Abstract

Hunger as absence is, paradoxically, a present negation, instrumentalized and incorporated into the reproductive cycle of capital itself, which, on its global scale, seems to dominate and hegemonically co-opt any attempt at food sovereignty practiced from and for each reality. In this way, and the face of this challenge, the Alternative Food Networks (AFN) constitute spaces of resistance, in which the aim is to reconstitute the separation of an original link that was split in the rural-urban relationship: food. Thus, we seek to understand the role of these networks and the practices of differentiated consumption associated with them in the production of the urban space of the cities of Medellin - Colombia and Curitiba - Brazil in their space of articulation and construction of an alternative territorial agri-food system. Although diverse contexts constitute the research, a dialectical method hopes to account for the contradictions and dependencies, thus, we make the comparative approach, the procedural path that privileges this encounter. In six chapters, a macro discussion of the Global Agri-Food System is integrated with the policies and institutionalism that make up the formal national and municipal framework, in which the networks would be ascribed, dealing with the specific practices that characterize each of the selected experiences; as well as, in the scope of an urban-spatial configuration circumscribed both to the axes of concentration and dispersion, and analysis concerning the centralities; as well as in the multi-scale articulation of a given space of vital production, prioritizing the dialectic of transference - dependence, to approach in this way, not only the forms and mechanisms of the objectifying process itself but also the counteracting processes of contradiction and creative collective action that seeks to break with the negation of the negation established by the modern process of the production of urban space. (AU)

• FAPESP's process: 17/04041-4 - Alternative food networks and consumption in the production of urban space: comparative case study Brazil-Colombia
• Grantee: César Andrés Alzate Hoyos
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate