4S/EASST conference18 October 2012, Copenhagen

Stefan DormansArnoud Lagendijk

Bas HendrikxMike Thelwall

Slow Food: the geographical becoming of a social movement

Outline• Slow Food: a short introduction• The ’geographical becoming’ of the Slow

Food movement• A ‘relational’ approach• Mixed methods

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Geographical becoming of Slow Food“SF develops through, within and as a geography”

• Expansion of Slow Food• Shaping of Slow Food ideas and practices • Shaping the Slow Food movement as a

whole

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A ‘relational’ approach• An evolving network of situated practices• Repetition & difference• Proximity – Topographical– Topological

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Methodological approachSystemic methods – Webometrics– Co-occurrence and content analysis

Interpretive methods– Discourse analysis– Multi-sited ethnography

Webometric Analyst

Thanks!

Stefan DormansArnoud LagendijkBas HendrikxMike Thelwall

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