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Tradition and Change in the Detroit's Food System
Erica GiordaDepartment of SociologyMichigan State University
+ Material culture and sense of place. (Daskalakis, Waldheim, and Young; Massey; Suchar; Winter…)
Embeddednes and localization (Allen; Hinrichs; Mardsen and Murdoch; Winter…)
Local food production and the debate on modernity (Taylor; Latour; Levenstein …)
Urban renewal: rhetoric and implementation (Pothukuchi; Shakow; Owens…)
Food justice and the Detroit food system revitalization. (Pothukuchi; DEMC; White; Yakini…)
Distinction vs. survival -of farmers as well as poorer customers. (Bourdieau; Wayne…)
Sustainability and the Public Market (Friedmann; Hinrichs …)
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Local food on the border.
Traditional farmers.
Urban farmers.
Gourmet food producers.
Import and export, and the wholesale market.
The Italian grocers connection.
Innovation
+Locally grown
+From Our Family to Yours
+Reflexivity
+ What does local mean?
Tradition equates with safe and natural only on the surface.
How can urban farmers survive in the long run?
What is the role for gourmet food producers?
Without a great overhaul of the farming production, can wholesalers survive in Michigan?
Medium size high scale grocers need clients in the suburb to keep supporting farmers, but do they really need to go to Detroit to keep working?
Contradictions
