AGÊNCIA E PODER NO SLOW FOOD PIRENÓPOLIS: UMA ANÁLISE DOS FLUXOS ALIMENTARES DO MOVIMENTO SLOW FOOD / AGENCY AND POWER IN SLOW FOOD PIRENÓPOLIS: AN ANALYSIS OF FOOD FLOWS IN THE SLOW FOOD MOVEMENT

The Slow Food Model: A Road for Small-Scale Productions in a Globalised Market

The paper presents the articulated strategy of valorization, implemented by the international movement called Slow Food in Italy and abroad in order to reconsider the concept of agricultural profitability. In particular, the paper suggests profitability lays on the value markets recognize to agricultural production. In this perspective, the Slow Food strategy represents a good practice to be em...

Environment, regulation and the moral economy of food in the Slow Food movement

This article studies ways in which the Slow Food movement creates spaces for political action and elaboratesnew normative systems, imagining new forms of economy. Taking quality consumption and production,respect for the environment, and the rights of small producers as its core aims, this movement has todaybecome an actor in the larger debates concerning the problematics of food, a...

Mobilising bodies: visceral identification in the Slow Food movement

This paper introduces a visceral take on the role of identity in social movement mobilisation. The authors emphasise how identity goes beyond cognitive labels to implicate the entire minded-body. It is suggested that political ideas, beliefs and self definitions require a bodily kind of resonance in order to activate various kinds of environmental and social activism. The authors refer to this ...

WantEat and Reward: Slow Technologies for Food

In this paper we provide our vision of slow technology, presenting two interactive systems in the domain of food.

Slow response to Angola's food crisis.