Reclaiming the Knowledge Economy - The Case of Alternative Agro-Food Networks

This book offers a critical analysis of the diverse knowledge and knowledge production  processes  through  which 'alternative  agro-food networks'  can constitute a more plural 'knowledge economy'. It provides critical sociological and political economic insights that help problematise dominant capitalocentric and technocentric framings of the 'knowledge (bio)economy'. It will appeal to researchers, practitioners and policy-makers  with  an  interest  in  supporting inclusive research, policy and innovation agendas for sustainability.

List of contents

1. Introduction: Bringing Together Alternative Agro-Food Networks and the Knowledge Economy: Why This Study, Why Now?.- 2. Re-inventing Capitalism through the Knowledge Economy.- 3. Understanding the Agro-Food Economy as a Knowledge Economy.- 4. Researching Alternative Agro-food Networks in the aftermath of the knowledge economy.- 5. Re-thinking the Knowledge Economy through Alternative Agro-food Networks.- 6. Conclusions: Reclaiming the Knowledge Economy
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About the author

Katerina Psarikidou is lecturer at the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex, UK.

Product details

• Authors: Katerina Psarikidou
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2022
• EAN: 9789811668425
• ISBN: 978-981-1668-42-5
• No. of pages: 170
• Dimensions: 148 mm x 15 mm x 210 mm
• Illustrations: XI, 170 p.
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Labour, economic and industrial sociology