Article
A field guide to making food good: An interactive tool for participatory research supporting difficult conversations
Public 1
(2013)
Abstract
The resource described here is a prototype for a "field guide" to what makes food good, focusing on how to identify someone else's "good," even (or especially) if you don't think you agree with that person. I provide some background to the project of developing this field guide, and then describe the tool itself and some implications and challenges involved in using it. I focus on ways the tool addresses interaction between competing perspectives on what makes food good, and the values different constituencies prioritize as they attempt to institutionalize their vision of a good food system. My collaborators and I hope that the resource may form the backbone of an online interface for organizing the mushrooming food system knowledge bases relevant to regional food networks. This project exemplifies the move toward engaged interdisciplinary scholarship that benefits from the interaction of people within and beyond higher education.
Disciplines
- Agriculture and
- Sociology
Publication Date
2013
Citation Information
K. Valentine Cadieux. "A field guide to making food good: An interactive tool for participatory research supporting difficult conversations" Public 1 (2013) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/kvalentine-cadieux/4/