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Troubling Places: topography and the poverty spatial politics of ‘alternative’ food
(Dr) Ben Coles
Department of Geography
University of Leicester
17th July 2014
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Introduction:
• Empirical Encounters (1 & 2)1. ‘Lunch’ and ‘alternative’ images of Borough Market
2. ‘topography’
• General Argument• In/Visibilities
• Fetishism in the Market
• Beyond the Fetish of the Commodity
• Towards a ‘Fetish’ of Place
• Facades of Borough Market
• Towards ‘Better’ Places
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Borough Market and ‘Alternative’ Foods
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Challenging ‘Alternative’ Food
Through this encounter, I want to raise four questions about alternative/alternative food:
1. What are its spaces/places and spatial politics?1. And how can we perturb them?
2. Does ‘alternative’ necessitate a provincialisation?
3. What are the intersections between the ‘alternative’ and the ‘conventional’?
4. Does ‘alternative’ necessarily equate to good?
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…Challenging the Places of ‘Good’ Food
…5. What is good, and how do we get at it?
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London’s Borough MarketFacades, Images, ‘Fetishes’
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Borough Market:Infrastructure, materialities, ‘de-fetishes’
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Borough Market:Transgressions, Disruptions, ‘Agitations’
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Beyond the Commodity Fetish and towards a ‘Fetish’ of Place
‘Disrupting the fetishism of commodities’ requires ‘a project aimed not just at confronting unethical market behaviour, but the social relations that underlie them’
(Fridell 2007)
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Conclusions
‘Conspicuous’ alternative food
Justice for whom?
Justice through place and place-making