Responsibility and agency within alternative food networks: Assembling the "citizen consumer"

Agriculture and Human Values

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 193-201

  Lockie, Stewart ^a  

^a CENTRAL QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Citizenship; Ecological citizenship; Neoliberalism; Organic food; Scale

Indexed keywords

EID: 67651087247     PISSN: 0889048X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10460-008-9155-8     Document Type: Article

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