Lectio Praecursoria: Patchworks of Care: Ethics and practice of care in the organic food movement in Latvia

The thesis introduced in this lectio praecursoria explores the everyday work, ideals and values of Latvian organic food movement known as tiešā pirkšana (‘direct purchasing’), an initiative which aims to shorten physical symbolic distance between producers consumers; producers, market regulating policies; consumers food. Drawing on empirical material obtained through long-term ethnographic fieldwork, theoretical discussions social research, concept ‘reconnection’ was chosen analyse process shortening different actors involved one small-scale provisioning system. By focusing notion that there is a link reconnection ethics practice care, analyses forms care various stages TP movement.
 Keywords: mall-scale provisioning, food, spatiotemporalities practices