Clark, E. Ann (author), Lehman, Hugh (author), Weise, Stephan F. (author), and Lehman: Department of Philosophy, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada; Clark and Weise: Department of Crop Science, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1993
Published:
International
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 96 Document Number: C07622
Grinnell, Gerald (author), Hamm, Larry G. (author), and Agricultural Economist, Economic Research Service, USDA; Policy Analyst, Office of Energy, USDA
Format:
Journal article
Publication Date:
1983-12
Published:
USA
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 64 Document Number: C02324
12 pages, via Online Journal, Current, prevalent models of the food system, including complex-adaptive systems theories and commodity-as-relation thinking, have usefully analyzed the food system in terms of its elements and relationships, confronting persistent questions about a system’s identity and leverage points for change. Here, inspired by Heldke’s (Monist 101:247–260, 2018) analysis, we argue for another approach to the “system-ness” of food that carries those key questions forward. Drawing on Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, we propose a model of the food system defined by the relational process of feeding itself; that is, the food system is made of feeding and only feeding, and system structures are produced by the coupling of that process to its various contexts. We argue that this approach moves us away from understandings of the food system that take structures and relations as given, and sees them instead as contingent, thereby helping to identify leverage points for food system change. The new approach we describe also prompts us as critical agrifood scholars to be constantly reflexive about how our analyses are shaped by our own assumptions and subjectivities.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 23 Document Number: B02436
Notes:
#911, Harold Swanson Collection, Madison, WI : University of Wisconsin, College of Agriculture, Department of Agricultural Journalism, 1956. 36 p. (Bulletin 25)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21149
Notes:
Pages 79-115 in Neill Schaller (ed.), Proceedings of Phase I Workshop: Social Science Agriculture Agenda Project, Spring Hill Conference Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 9-11. 384 pages., (p. 79) "I must, nonetheless, apologize for the fact that because of the limited time available for preparing this paper, I have elected not to treat home economics or home ecology and education at all. Regrettably, I have so little knowledge of these fields that it is better that I say nothing rather than risk generating or perpetuating half-truths. I will also not treat the communication sciences as a separate 'discipline' because of the inherent multidisciplinary character of departments of communication, agricultural journalism, and so on. Persons in these departments have typically been trained in such a wide range of disciplines (including sociology, psychology, journalism, and the humanities) that it is impossible to examine such programs as a single discipline. I will also not treat community development as a discipline."
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D07829
Notes:
USDA 388-74, Address by Secretary of Agriculture Earl L. Butz before the Mid-Winter convention of the Oklahoma Press Association, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, February 15, 1974, 10:00 a.m., CDT.
