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Reducing the risk of co-optation in alternative food networks: Multi-stakeholder agricultural cooperatives, social capital, and third spaces of cooperation

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dc.contributor.authorAjates González, Raquel
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-09T16:27:34Z
dc.date.available2024-09-09T16:27:34Z
dc.date.issued2021-10-12
dc.descriptionThe registered version of this article, first published in Sustainability , is available online at the publisher's website: MDPI, https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011219
dc.descriptionLa versión registrada de este artículo, publicado por primera vez en Sustainability , está disponible en línea en el sitio web del editor: MDPI, https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011219
dc.description.abstractFarming cooperatives are organisations fundamentally based on social capital. However, the neoliberal and globalisation turn in the food system have led to the economisation of agricultural cooperatives as their main objective and criteria for evaluating their performance, and to a retreat from their participation in the wider cooperative movement. Nevertheless, new models of cooperation may provide a method to divert from this neoliberalisation trend by promoting social capital and mutual learning amongst different actors committed to a transition to sustainable food systems. This paper applies the anthropological concept of third spaces to examine the case of multistakeholder cooperatives. This type of food and farming cooperatives are composed of a diverse membership groups (e.g., producers, consumers, coordinators, buyers, etc). A nuanced analysis of these cooperatives’ capacity to generate social capital, and more specifically to blur the boundaries between bonding, bridging, and linking social capital, is presented. Evidence from five case studies suggests that multistakeholder cooperatives that remain at the border of their game, operating in both real and symbolic third spaces, are more likely to be based on and reproduce different types of social capital as well as social and environmental sustainability, while in turn reducing the risk of co-optation of their transformative practices.en
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dc.identifier.citationAjates, R. Reducing the Risk of Co-Optation in Alternative Food Networks: Multi-Stakeholder Cooperatives, Social Capital, and Third Spaces of Cooperation. Sustainability 2021, 13, 11219. https://doi.org/10.3390/su132011219
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3390/su132011219
dc.identifier.issn2071-1050
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14468/23673
dc.journal.titleSustainability
dc.journal.volume13
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherMDPI
dc.relation.centerFacultades y escuelas::Facultad de Ciencias Políticas y Sociología
dc.relation.departmentPsicología de la Personalidad, Evaluación y Tratamiento Psicológico
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.es
dc.subject63 Sociología
dc.subject.keywordsthird spacesen
dc.subject.keywordssocial capitalen
dc.subject.keywordsmulti-stakeholder cooperativesen
dc.subject.keywordsagricultural cooperativesen
dc.subject.keywordsco-optationen
dc.subject.keywordsalternative food networksen
dc.subject.keywordssustainable food systemsen
dc.subject.keywordsSpainen
dc.subject.keywordsU.K.en
dc.subject.keywordsconsumer identityen
dc.titleReducing the risk of co-optation in alternative food networks: Multi-stakeholder agricultural cooperatives, social capital, and third spaces of cooperationen
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