Combining political ecology and pragmatist sociology to repoliticise agrifood systems’ transformations at the territorial scale
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22-06-2025
Claire Lamine
Juliano Palm
Martina Tuscano
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6648-7398
Abstract
Recent crises have led to an increased framing of agrifood systems transformations through the lens of food supply at different scales (global, national, territorial), sometimes justifying neo-productivist perspectives, and often at the expense of environmental issues and social justice. In turn, this produced a broader depoliticisation of food systems transformations despite an institutional politicisation, i.e. an increased integration in policy narratives, often with limited real effects. We suggest that pragmatist sociology and political ecology might offer fruitful insights for addressing this issue in a repoliticised way. These two literatures show how people identify problems affecting agri-food systems and collectively work to find solutions while, at the same time, recognising the plurality of understandings of transition pathways and highlighting the mechanisms through which some actors and worldviews are neglected when it comes to defining possible paths of transformation. Inspired by these literatures, we have established three key guiding questions dealing with the processes of definition of the food systems’ transformations as a shared and collective problem, the analysis of the reconfigurations of power relations, and the recognition of the diversity of visions of the food system. These guiding questions, that can orientate both analytical and transformative perspectives, emerged and were tested in three territorial case studies in France and Brazil. They appear useful not only for the scientific analysis of de/repoliticisation processes, primarily because they reveal the contrasted effects of the increasing institutionalisation and legitimisation of agrifood transitions but also for developing a transformative approach allowing to repoliticise this issue.
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Lamine, C. (2025) “Combining political ecology and pragmatist sociology to repoliticise agrifood systems’ transformations at the territorial scale”, The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 31(1), pp. 197–214. doi:10.48416/ijsaf.v24i3.676.
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agroecological transitions, food systems, action research
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Lamine, C., Dodet, F., Demené, C., Rotival, D., Latré, L., Sabot, N., Chenot, L., Hilaire, M.-P., Audibert, O., Waldschmidt, P., Simon, M., 2022. Transformations du système agri-alimentaire territorial en sud Ardèche : co-construire une périodisation du passé… qui fasse sens pour l’avenir. Géocarrefour 96.
Lamine, C., Pugliese, P., Barataud, F., Berti, G., Rossi, A., 2023. Italian biodistricts and French territorial food projects: how science-policy-experience interplays shape the framings of transitions towards sustainable territorial food systems. Front. Sustain. Food Syst. 7. https://doi.org/10.3389/fsufs.2023.1223270
Lamine, C., Tuscano, M., Feyereisen, M., Castro, T.P., Bui, S., 2024. Articulating sustainable transitions, food justice and food democracy: Insights from three social experiments in France, Belgium and Brazil. Sociol. Rural. 64, 41–63. https://doi.org/10.1111/soru.12460
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Martinez Alier, J., 2003. The Environmentalism of the poor: a study of ecological conflicts and valuation. Edward Elgar Publishing.
McKeon, N., 2017. Are Equity and Sustainability a Likely Outcome When Foxes and Chickens Share the Same Coop? Critiquing the Concept of Multistakeholder Governance of Food Security. Globalizations 14, 379–398. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2017.1286168
Meek, D., Simonian, L.T., 2017. Transforming space and society? The political ecology of education in the Brazilian Landless Workers’ Movement’s Jornada de Agroecología. Environ. Plan. Soc. Space 35, 513–532. https://doi.org/10.1177/0263775816667073
Moragues-Faus, A., Battersby, J., 2021. Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future: Concepts and tools for a renewed agenda. Food Policy, Urban food policies for a sustainable and just future 103, 102124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2021.102124
Moragues-Faus, A., Marsden, T., 2017. The political ecology of food: Carving ‘spaces of possibility’ in a new research agenda. J. Rural Stud. 55, 275–288. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2017.08.016
Pahun, J., Fouilleux, E., 2022. Organisational troubles in policy integration. French local food policies in the making. Rev. Agric. Food Environ. Stud. 103, 247–269. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41130-022-00174-2
Palm, J.L., 2021. Processos de transição agroecológica: ecologia de projetos a partir de uma abordagem pragmática, sistêmica e territorial com base em estudo na Região Serrana Fluminense, PhD Thesis, UFRRJ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Palm, J.L., Schmitt, C.J., Lamine, C., 2021. Uma leitura territorialmente situada dos processos de transição agroecológica: ecologia de projetos na Região Serrana Fluminense. Redes St Cruz Sul Online 26. https://doi.org/10.17058/redes.v26i0.16892
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Lamine, C. (2025) “Combining political ecology and pragmatist sociology to repoliticise agrifood systems’ transformations at the territorial scale”, The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, 31(1), pp. 197–214. doi:10.48416/ijsaf.v24i3.676.
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