Everyday Resistance by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030189877
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Box 7.1 A Short Overview of Fieldwork Conducted

This discussion rests principally on a study financed by the Ethnology Mission of the Ministry of Culture and Communication, conducted in 2007–2008 mainly in Basse-Normandie with some trips elsewhere in the west of France.

The method used was inspired by ethnographic fieldwork applied to networks of familiarity that are not limited to a specific locality in which it would be possible to settle and live everyday life (Beaud and Weber 1998). It consisted in following the (informal and comparatively loose) network of key figures who have promoted, founded, and run the AMAPs and other related schemes established in the region, combining semi-structured interviews with 30 of these figures (half with “producers” and half with “consumers”, some of whom run the Réseau Bio and the Regional Association for the Development of the Solidarity Economy, ARDES); direct in situ observations (sometimes recorded) of all the existing forms of interaction—particularly of those collective moments that regulate the life of the organisations; as well as a documentary study of online material, of activist archives and of documents gathered during the interviews and observations.

The research then continued through more selective interviews with people playing a key role in the AMAPs, as well as through exploratory investigations of a Parisian AMAP and of an “organic box” subscription service proposed by a “producers’ cooperative” (under the brand Les Paniers Bio du Val de Loire) with more than 200 “deposit points” in the Centre region, in Paris and in the Île-de-France, among which is the Université Paris-Est Créteil where I work.

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