Trade-off or convergence? The role of food security in the evolution of food discourse in Italy
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- 作者：Gianluca Brunori ; gbrunori@agr.unipi.it ; Vanessa Malandrin vmalandrin@agr.unipi.it ; Adanella Rossi
- 关键词：Food security ; Discourse ; Made in Italy ; Public sphere ; Market sphere
- 刊名：Journal of Rural Studies
- 出版年：2013
- 出版时间：January, 2013
- 年：2013
- 卷：29
- 期：Complete
- 页码：19-29
- 全文大小：280 K
文摘
In this paper we analyse the role that ¡®food security¡¯ has played in the evolution of the food discourse in Italy, a country with a strong and internationally recognized food culture. We identify three phases of this evolution: in the first phase, from the end of the Second World War to the end of the 1980s, the ¡®modernization¡¯ frame, with its emphasis on productivity and the industrial organization of production, dominates in a context populated mainly by agricultural actors. A second phase, characterised by the ¡®turn to quality¡¯, encourages the development of a ¡®Made in Italy food consensus¡¯. In this phase, food security mainly concerns food safety and conservation of national food identity. The third phase is characterised by a response to the pressures generated by the 2006-2008 food crisis and the subsequent recession. In this phase food security becomes a key element of a new consensus frame, which links together pieces of discourse that often existed in separate fields of activity and policy. The analysis is carried out within a conceptual framework that focuses attention on the co-evolution between discourse and discursive coalitions in a progressive overlapping between ¡®public sphere¡¯ and ¡®market sphere¡¯.