Tracing methodological possibilities for the challenges of consumption studies in agroecology

Traçando possibilidades metodológicas para os desafios dos estudos do consumo na agroecologia

Authors

  • Maria Luiza de Andrade Benini Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brasil
  • Roberto Donato da Silva Júnior Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brasil

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36920/esa-v27n2-6

Abstract

Agroecology proposes to incorporate sustainable practices in agricultural production and consequently the development of new marketing channels prepared to assimilate its goods. Despite the efforts to create those marketing channels and to improve the communication between production and consumption, there is a preference for debate and resource investments in production. We observed this distinction (both quantitative and qualitative) reviewing the scientific literature from 2008 to 2018. This paper aims to develop an historical approach to understand the reasons for this hierarchy between production and consumption based on an understanding of the market concept in neoclassical economics, economic sociology and the new economic sociology. Consumption is discussed through the lenses of the sociology and anthropology of consumption. In addition, we highlight the complexity and challenges in studying consumption, and we present methodological aspects that would enable us to redefine the relationship between production and consumption within the agroecology context.
Keywords: consumption; agroecology; Sociology of consumption; Politicization of consumption; food consumption; ethnography.

BENINI, Maria Luiza de Andrade; SILVA JÚNIOR, Roberto Donato. Traçando possibilidades metodológicas para os desafios dos estudos do consumo na agroecologia. Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, v. 27, n. 2, p. 352-370, jun. 2019.

Submitted in january 2019.
Accepted in march 2019.

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Author Biographies

  • Maria Luiza de Andrade Benini, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brasil

    Master's degree in the Interdisciplinary program in Human and Applied Social Sciences, by the State University of Campinas (Unicamp).
    E-mail: malubenini@gmail.com
    http://lattes.cnpq.br/0695217058305786

  • Roberto Donato da Silva Júnior, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp), Brasil

    Professor at the State University of Campinas (Unicamp), working at the Common Core (NGC), Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Human and Applied Social Sciences of the Faculty of Applied Sciences (FCA) and Graduate Program in Environment and Society of the Center for Environmental Studies and Research (NEPAM/IFCH).
    E-mail: roberto.junior@fca.unicamp.br
    http://lattes.cnpq.br/7518016994573423

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Published

2019-06-01

Issue

Vol. 27 No. 2: Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura (june to september 2019)

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