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Giuseppe Feola presents at Sustainability Institute (Maastricht University)
Today Giuseppe Feola gave a research seminar titled ‘How (not) to initiate a grassroots agri-food initiative: insights from a Dutch case study’ ...
New paper: Grassroots Initiatives as Political Actors: Scaling, Capture and Constituency in Food Policy Councils
Fiore, F., Feola, G., Piló, F., (in press). Grassroots Initiatives as Political Actors: Scaling, Capture and Constituency in Food Policy Councils. ...
New paper: On the practices and possibilities of autonomous more-than-human political communities
Smessaert, J., Feola, G., 2025. On the practices and possibilities of autonomous more-than-human political communities. Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): ...
New paper: Performances of rural–urban relations in community-supported agriculture
Spanier, J., 2025. What does it mean to nurture ‘good intentions between city and country’? Performances of rural–urban relations in community-supported ...
New publication: Becoming community economy
Raj, G., Feola, G., 2025. Becoming community economy: how community-supported agriculture diversifies farm labour. Local Environment. Abstract: ...
New paper: Postgrowth food systems: critique, visions, pathways
Feola, G., 2025. Postgrowth food systems: critique, visions, pathways. Degrowth Journal 3, 00278. Abstract: Sustainable food systems are essential ...
Julia Spanier defended her PhD thesis
On 28 November 2024 Julia Spanier successfully defended her PhD thesis titled ‘A rural(–urban) perspective: Agricultural grassroots initiatives and the ...
New paper: Building solidarities and alliances between degrowth and food sovereignty movements
Julia Spanier, Leonie Guerrero Lara and Jacob Smessaert co-authored a new paper titled ‘Building solidarities and alliances between degrowth and food ...
Giuseppe Feola presents at GIIST conference
On 26 September 2024, Giuseppe Feola presented the paper titled ‘Beyond refusal: reconceptualising deconstruction in prefigurative social ...
Jacob Smessaert defended his PhD thesis
On 13 September 2024 Jacob Smessaert successfully defended his PhD thesis titled ‘Practising democracy in agrifood collectives: building political ...