Passionate interests and community decision making : building the local food system in Kamloops, BC
department or school: Arts and Social Sciences, Irving K. Barber Faculty of (Okanagan)
department or school: Community, Culture and Global Studies, Department of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Harris, Lindsay Ellen
issued: 2021-05-20T17:39:59Z
issued: 2021
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Kamloops, British Columbia is home to the oldest independent food policy council in Canada. Since its formation in 1995, the Kamloops Food Policy Council (KFPC) has collectively made decisions about the initiatives it values, and the broad and diverse network that has formed around these deliberations is an ideal setting to explore important questions about community decision-making and valuation of social initiatives. In this dissertation, I summarize both the history and current context of the KFPC, embedding myself in the complex webs of relations that have advanced the work of community food security for many years, and the broader historical, economic, and political context in which these relations emerged. This research is based on an ethnographic and community based participatory methodology in which I emphasize the process of learning to be a good relation as the foundation for my work. I argue that small changes build capacity for an expansive vision, using each of the imperfect terms in this phrase to explore themes of scale, change, relationality, value and expansive collective visions. I provide a thick description of how the value of specific local initiatives contribute to a collective desire for possible futures (and action towards them). My conclusions about value add to the building refrain: capitalist constraints on value and valuation have not everywhere taken over, there are many rough edges and weak places within its hegemony, and different worlds are possible. I argue that a viable economic vision (and indeed, a viable future) requires restoring relations to calculations of value, forging pathways to connect small initiatives to expansive visions, making initiatives visible in new ways to themselves and their actors, fostering new initiatives that represent collectivized desires for possible futures and enrolling more collaborators into those passionate interests.
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note: PASSIONATE INTERESTS AND COMMUNITY DECISION MAKING: BUILDING THE LOCAL FOOD SYSTEM IN KAMLOOPS, BC by Lindsay Ellen Harris A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) May 2021 © Lindsay Ellen Harris, 2021 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a dissertation entitled: Passionate Interests and Community Decision Making: Building the Local Food System in Kamloops, BC submitted by Lindsay Ellen Harris in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy . Michael Evans Supervisor Susan Frohlick Supervisory Committee Member Johannus Janmaat Supervisory Committee Member Ashok Mathur Supervisory Committee Member Mike Chiasson University Examiner Philip Loring External Examiner iii Land Acknowledgement The Kamloops Food Policy Council, based in Kamloops, BC, Canada, is on the traditional, unceded territory of the Secwépemc people, who nourished themselves and this land for millennia. This ancient gathering place, where the North and South Thompson Rivers meet, is called Tk’emlúps in the Secwépemc language, Secwepemctsín. This land is called Secwepemcúl̓ecw.iv Abstract Kamloops, British Columbia is home to the oldest independent food policy council in Canada. Since its formation in 1995, the Kamloops Food Policy Council (KFPC) has collectively made decisions about the initiatives it values, and the broad and diverse network that has formed around these deliberations is an ideal setting to explore important questions about community decision-making and valuation of social initiatives. In this dissertation, I summarize both the history and current context of the KFPC, embedding myself in the complex webs of relations that have advanced the work of community food security for many years, and the br…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2021-09
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0398095
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Evans, Mike, 1961-
type: Text
type: Moving Image
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/78388