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(with apologies for cross-posting) CALL FOR PAPERS Food and Drink Markets: The Production and Consumption of Alternative Market Practices and Narratives Conference stream of the 9th International Conference in Critical Management Studies ‘Is there an alternative? Management after critique’ University of Leicester: 8-10 July, 2015. Abstract deadline: 31 January, 2015. Food and drink markets are situated at the intersection of the global and local, the economic and cultural, the political and passionate. Amidst growing concerns about food-related security, safety, environmental degradation and social injustice, we are witness to a proliferation of alternatives. These are rediscovering, inventing, adapting and developing different approaches to the production, distribution and procurement of food and drink. The socio-cultural significance of food for individuals and groups means that the viability of alternative food and drink markets is intertwined with consumers’ desires for goods, services and market relations that offer a sense of authenticity and identity in a global marketplace otherwise crowded with homogeneous, standardized offerings and instrumental modes of exchange. Examples such as Slow Food, CSA schemes, foraging, food swaps, and biodynamic production underline two concurrent dynamics. First, the crises facing the hegemonic global food system are inseparable from the systemic and perpetual crises of capitalism. And second, the possibility for alternatives is being practiced in the here and now. What can we learn from the specific practices and narratives of alternative food and drink market actors, and the forms of organizing and identity that make the production and consumption of such markets possible? Relevant contributions include but are not limited to such topics as: • alternative market narratives: How is ‘doing things differently’ made intelligible and credible to others? • alternative market devices and approaches: How are alternative markets practiced? • alternative market identities: How do producers’, consumers’ and intermediaries’ identities enable alternative modes of operating? • alternative futures: How scalable are alternative approaches, and to what extent do they disrupt and/or reproduce existing market relations, inequalities and values? • mainstreaming alternatives: How credible are alternatives when their wares start to occupy supermarket shelves? • alternative points of view: Case studies from the perspective of practitioners are welcome. Abstract Submission: • Deadline for submission of abstracts: 31 January, 2015. • Abstracts should be 500 words maximum, saved as a word document (no pdfs please) and include affiliation and contact details for author(s). • Abstracts should be emailed to Jennifer Smith Maguire ([log in to unmask]). • Authors will be notified of the outcome of their submission by 20 March 2015 at the latest. Please direct questions to any of the stream conveners: Jennifer Smith Maguire ([log in to unmask]); John Lang ([log in to unmask]); David Watson ([log in to unmask]). Further conference information can be found here: http://www2.le.ac.uk/conference/cms15 ------------------------------------------------------- Dr Jennifer Smith Maguire School of Management University of Leicester Leicester . LE17RH . UK [log in to unmask] http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/management/people/dr-jennifer-smith-maguire http://www.le.ac.uk/cultural-production-and-consumption -------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA mailing list -------------------------------------------------------- To manage your subscription or unsubscribe from the MECCSA list, please visit: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=MECCSA&A=1 ------------------------------------------------------- MeCCSA is the subject association for the field of media, communication and cultural studies in UK Higher Education. This mailing list is a free service and is not restricted to members. It is an unmoderated list and content reflect the views of those who post to the list and not of MeCCSA as an organisation. MeCCSA recommends that the list be used only for posting of information (for example about events, publications, conferences, lectures) of interest to members or to promote discussion of current issues of wide general interest in the field. Posts to the MeCCSA mailing list are public, indexed by Google, and can be accessed from the JISCMail website (http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/meccsa.html). Any messages posted to the list are subject to the JISCMail acceptable use policy, which states that users should avoid engaging in unreasonable behaviour, or disrupting the general flow of discussion on a list. For further information, please visit: http://www.meccsa.org.uk/ --------------------------------------------------------