Tag: local food system
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Knowing the Food System Otherwise
We know what is broken in the food system. Recent research reports that we need ‘A great transformation’ (Rockström et al., 2025). However, it seems that we have landed in a continuation of a business-as-usualattitude, or, as some say, even come to a stop (Brunori et al., 2024). Thus, one may ask, are we no longer working in…
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Misalignments in consumption journeys within REKO
In my master’s thesis, I examined consumption journeys within the alternative local food network REKO. The aim was to identify different types of consumption journeys and analyse factors that cause misalignment in these journeys. The study employs a qualitative approach, aiming to deepen the understanding of the reality experienced by REKO participants within their sociocultural…
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REKO AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO … WHAT?
REKO is an alternative local food network (Leipämaa-Leskinen, 2021). But what is REKO an alternative to? This is a question that has puzzled us since we started exploring REKO in 2013 and revisited it in 2023. In this blog text, we reflect on the question through our past and current ethnographic research. Hanna has been…
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Hope in REKO
Research is never the work of a single woman. Rather, it should be understood, as Donna Haraway suggests, as ‘sympoiesis’ – a “making-with”: all things become together. In this blog post, I will reflect on a sympoietic theme that emerged at the convergence of my reading of parts of the empirical material generated by members…