Discussing ‘Tribal Embeddedness’ of Community Supported Agriculture
Date Issued
2016
Date
2016
Author(s)
Lin, Yu-Shan
Abstract
The article is aimed to exam community supported agriculture (CSA) development in contemporary Taiwan indigenous tribes, preliminarily exploring the meaning of tribal embeddedness. The article adopts Mark Granovetter’s (1985) social embddedness theory and CSA related concepts, combining Taiwan indigenous tribal development related literature as the basic analysis framework to exam the meaning of tribal CSA development for indigenous tribes. We choose five tribal CSAs as examples, intervewing core propellents and indigenous producers. The article indicates that contemporary tribal CSAs try to target on both tribal economic development and social development. The implication of social embeddedness is tribal problems solving – oriented. The process of embedding also possesses the meaning of enhancing tribal social solidarity. However, it is still difficult to figure out effective ways to draw indigenous young people back to hometown.The implication of cultural embeddedness is trying to merge indigenous people’s culture and daily life, simultaneously enhancing indigenous people’s cultural identity. Yet, we seldom observe any traditional culture innovation. The implication of natural embeddedness is about adopting and promoting natural or organic farming. For indigenous producer, it is a process of reeducation. More important, it highlights an intimate relationship with traditional farming knowledge and reembeddeds agricultural production into natural environment. Besides, the article finds out that tribal CSA and indigenous tribe holds a reciprocal relationship with each other. The article also compares and discusses the differences between tribal and Han propellents of CSA. The article shows that Han propellents are tribal problems solving or organic farming developing– oriented. However, tribal propellents focus on developing tribal industries. More over, in the discussion of food sovereignty issue, the article assumes that to indigenous people, the diversity produce of tribal CSA is also considered as food. To ensure a stable development, it is essential to develop cash crops that match the needs of Hans consumers. The contribution of the article is to propose the meaning of tribal embeddedness in CSA development, encouraging the interaction and conversation of CSA between tribal and Western context. In addition, it provides the foundation to exam CSA development nowadays and in the future, realizing the challenges and chances of tribal CSA development.
Subjects
community supported agriculture
social embeddedneess
tribal development
social development
economical develpoment
Type
thesis
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