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dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisorPijl, Y.H. van der
dc.contributor.authorWassmann, A.R.M.
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-19T18:00:23Z
dc.date.available2020-10-19T18:00:23Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/37971
dc.description.abstractDespite a large number of sustainable food initiatives in the public, private and community sectors in Cambridge (UK), a citywide collaboration is absent. This thesis looks at the barriers preventing these initiatives from jointly establishing a successful sustainable food partnership in Cambridge, one of the most prosperous and yet unequal cities in the UK. The focus is on the divide between the third sector, as Sustainable Food Voluntary Organisations (SFVOs) represent most initiatives across the city, and the public sector, as the City Council has particular responsibility and power. The central research question is this: How does the (lack of) interaction between SFVOs and the City Council in Cambridge (UK) affect the establishment of a cross-sectoral sustainable food partnership? The fieldwork for this ethnographic research was conducted over three months. The key methods used were participant observation, mainly within eight SFVOs, and semi-structured interviews with 33 research participants, representing 11 SFVOs and the Council. The research reveals that, on the one hand, due to a lack of faith and mistrust in the Council and politics in general, citizens and SFVOs express their sustainable food convictions through personalised and civic politics. On the other hand, SFVOs who do interact with the Council, mainly through the Council's Sustainable City Grants, experience an unequal power balance in favour of the Council, which puts various pressures on SFVOs. Therefore, neither the lack of nor the actual interaction between SFVOs and the Council provide a basis for joining forces in an egalitarian way to make Cambridge a sustainable food city. The societal relevance of this research is that it provides a stepping-stone to establishing a cross-sectoral sustainable food partnership in Cambridge. The understanding of barriers to partnerships around sustainable food is also a valuable contribution to the Sustainable Development Goals. The academic relevance of this research is that it fills an existing gap in ethnographic explorations into barriers to the establishment of cross-sectoral sustainable food partnerships in the UK.
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
dc.language.isoen
dc.titleCollaboration of Sustainability Initiatives — An Ethnographic Exploration into Barriers to Establishing a Sustainable Food Partnership in Cambridge, UK
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordsSustainable Food Voluntary Organisation; City Council; Lifestyle Politics; Political Consumerism; Sustainable Community Movement Organisation; Disavowal of the Political; Rhizome; Neoliberalism; Neoliberal Governmentality; Resistance; Isomorphism; Bureaucracy
dc.subject.courseuuCultural Anthropology: Sustainable Citizenship


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