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- Berns, Katie, et al.
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From Commodities to Gifts : Redistributing Surplus Food Locally
- 2019
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In: Ethnographies of Collaborative Economies Conference Proceedings. - 9781912669110
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper investigates the practices and dynamics of a grassroots initiative that takes a non-monetary sharing approach to the issue of food surplus. Food sharing Copenhagen (FS-CPH) is a community-led, volunteer-run organisation working towards reducing food waste by collecting surplus food from supermarkets, bakeries, and private individuals and redistributing it locally, for free. The analysis illustrates the practices of the three main working groups within the organisation, the role of technology within the organization, and how food is framed through a community economies approach.
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- Lampinen, Airi, et al.
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Scaling Out, Scaling Down : Reconsidering growth in grassroots initiatives
- 2019
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In: Ethnographies of Collaborative Economies Conference Proceedings. - 9781912669110
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In this paper, we reflect on how scaling out – recreating and reconfiguring horizontally the most promising practices across contexts (Manzini, 2015) – can help local, grassroots initiatives to grow in a socially sustainable fashion and to sustain their action over time. We ground our discussion on the case of Hoffice, a self-organizing network that is experimenting with an alternative social model for collectively organizing and supporting flexible forms of work. In a prior ethnographic study of the Hoffice network (Rossitto & Lampinen, 2018), we outlined the socio-technical practices and values that characterise this community. We complement this previous piece by zooming in on the community’s struggles in the face of rapid growth. We conclude by proposing a way to rethink the challenges that growth can pose.
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