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Women, Urbanization and SustainabilityWhat Is Being Sustained? Sustainability and Food Exchange Sites in Istanbul

Women, Urbanization and Sustainability: What Is Being Sustained? Sustainability and Food Exchange... [This chapter focuses on the sustainability of urban food exchange sites (supermarkets, bazaars, farmers’ markets, grocery stores and alternative food networks). Taking Istanbul’s large variety of food markets and stores as its case study, the paper, first, briefly describes how sustainability is conceptualized in each type of food exchange site. These conceptualizations are then analyzed to uncover what is imagined in each site as needing to be sustained: Is it ‘the food’ (if so, what kind of food?), ‘the population’ (if so, what kind of population?), or the profit motive of capitalism? Focusing on the gendered nature of these imaginations, the paper finally interrogates the ways in which reproductive and productive labor are discursively linked in the food supply chain of today’s (global) city.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Women, Urbanization and SustainabilityWhat Is Being Sustained? Sustainability and Food Exchange Sites in Istanbul

Part of the Gender, Development and Social Change Book Series
Editors: Lacey, Anita
Turkkan, Candan
Women, Urbanization and Sustainability — Mar 29, 2017
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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017. The author(s) has/have asserted their right(s) to be identified as the author(s) of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
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978-1-349-95181-9
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119 –153
DOI
10.1057/978-1-349-95182-6_6
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[This chapter focuses on the sustainability of urban food exchange sites (supermarkets, bazaars, farmers’ markets, grocery stores and alternative food networks). Taking Istanbul’s large variety of food markets and stores as its case study, the paper, first, briefly describes how sustainability is conceptualized in each type of food exchange site. These conceptualizations are then analyzed to uncover what is imagined in each site as needing to be sustained: Is it ‘the food’ (if so, what kind of food?), ‘the population’ (if so, what kind of population?), or the profit motive of capitalism? Focusing on the gendered nature of these imaginations, the paper finally interrogates the ways in which reproductive and productive labor are discursively linked in the food supply chain of today’s (global) city.]

Published: Mar 29, 2017

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