Review of the book As Novas Ordens Alimentares
As Novas Ordens Alimentares
Abstract
The book As Novas Ordens Alimentares launches an approach that should have a significant influence on agri-food studies over the next few years. It is an ambitious, thought-provoking and challenging work. The result of more than 10 years of research by professors Paulo André Niederle (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul - UFRGS) and Valdemar João Wesz Junior (Federal University of Latin American Integration - UNILA), in interaction with other colleagues and group members. integrating, the authors strive to understand and analyze the social practices and institutional mechanisms involved in the construction, coordination and stabilization of food and agricultural markets in Brazil. On the one hand, they present an extremely original and innovative theoretical framework, which synthesizes contributions from the Economics of Conventions, Historical and Sociological Neointitutionalism and the Theory of Practices applied to the theme. On the other hand, they offer a broad and deep historical analysis of Brazil's agri-food system, an exemplary country in this area, on which both accumulate a vast set of data and information that allow them to paint a comprehensive empirical picture. Based on this combination of groundbreaking theoretical proposition and comprehensive empirical evidence, the authors aim to overcome the inadequate contrast between the dominant representations of "agribusiness" and the alternative of "family farming" through a more complex and nuanced interpretation. Thus, they go beyond the homogenizing media image of “agro is tech, agro is pop, agro is everything” and demonstrate that production, distribution and food consumption in Brazil, in their interrelations with rural and urban spaces, have in the diversity and heterogeneity of practices, actors and processes as their defining marks.
Keywords: agrifood; agribusiness; family farming.
NIEDERLE, Paulo André; WESZ JUNIOR, Valdemar João. As novas ordens alimentares. Porto Alegre: Editora da UFRGS, 2018. 429p. Resenha de : ESCHER, Fabiano. As novas ordens alimentares. Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, v. 27, n. 1, p. 215-224, fev. 2019.
Submitted in december 2018.
Accepted in december 2018.
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