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Are you alternative? ‘Alternative’ food networks and consumers’ definitions of alterity (2010)
Book Chapter
Holloway, L., Cox, R., Kneafsey, M., Dowler, E., Venn, L., & Tuomainen, H. (2010). Are you alternative? ‘Alternative’ food networks and consumers’ definitions of alterity. In D. Fuller, A. E. Jonas, & R. Lee (Eds.), Interrogating Alterity : Alternative Economic and Political Spaces (161-173). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315589633

Concepts of ‘alternative’ food practices, enterprises or networks (AFns) have become increasingly prevalent in European and north American agri-food writing, with their suggestion and promise of solutions to some of the ecological, economic and socia... Read More about Are you alternative? ‘Alternative’ food networks and consumers’ definitions of alterity.

Birds and people in towns and cities : an exploration of human-bird relations in urban areas (2010)
Thesis
Pedley, D. J. Birds and people in towns and cities : an exploration of human-bird relations in urban areas. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4209813

Urban nature conservation and sustainability discourses regularly state a desire to bring more ‘nature’ and wildlife into towns and cities - for the perceived good of both people and wildlife. Yet many wildlife species that already live in urban area... Read More about Birds and people in towns and cities : an exploration of human-bird relations in urban areas.

Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding: (re)constituting animal populations and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities (2009)
Journal Article
Holloway, L., Morris, C., Gilna, B., & Gibbs, D. (2009). Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding: (re)constituting animal populations and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities. Transactions - Institute of British Geographers, 34(3), 394-407. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2009.00347.x

Genetic techniques have become increasingly prevalent in livestock breeding, associated with new types of knowledge-practice and changes in the institutional and geographical relationships related to animal husbandry. This paper examines the value of... Read More about Biopower, genetics and livestock breeding: (re)constituting animal populations and heterogeneous biosocial collectivities.

Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring Alternatives (2008)
Book
Holloway, L., Cox, R., Dowler, E., Kneafsey, M., Tuomainen, H., & Venn, L. (2008). Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring Alternatives. Berg Publishers. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350047631

Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food presents a detailed and empirically grounded analysis of alternatives to current models of food provision. The book offers insights into the identities, motives and practices of individuals engaged in reconn... Read More about Reconnecting Consumers, Producers and Food: Exploring Alternatives.

Constructing sustainability through reconnection: The case of 'alternative' food networks (2008)
Book Chapter
Cox, R., Kneafsey, M., Venn, L., Holloway, L., Dowler, E., & Tuomainen, H. (2008). Constructing sustainability through reconnection: The case of 'alternative' food networks. In G. Robinson (Ed.), Sustainable rural systems : sustainable agriculture and rural communities (67-82). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315611556

This chapter examines two particular environmental programmes in Canada, one in the Atlantic provinces and one in Ontario, with a view to assessing how the process of 'bottom up' planning has worked in these two instances and what lessons may be lear... Read More about Constructing sustainability through reconnection: The case of 'alternative' food networks.

Boosted bodies: genetic techniques, domestic livestock bodies and complex representations of life (2008)
Journal Article
Holloway, L., & Morris, C. (2008). Boosted bodies: genetic techniques, domestic livestock bodies and complex representations of life. Geoforum, 39(5), 1709-1720. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.03.006

This paper focuses on the burgeoning application of genetic techniques in livestock agriculture, examining how these are changing livestock breeding knowledge-practices and the representation of animal life. Conventional livestock breeding relies on... Read More about Boosted bodies: genetic techniques, domestic livestock bodies and complex representations of life.

Subjecting cows to robots: farming technologies and the making of animal subjects (2007)
Journal Article
Holloway, L. (2007). Subjecting cows to robots: farming technologies and the making of animal subjects. Environment and planning. D, Society & space, 25(6), 1041-1060. https://doi.org/10.1068/d77j

Recent representations of human-animal relationships in farming have tended to focus on human experience, and to essentialise animal subjectivity in granting them a centred subjectivity akin to that assumed to be possessed by humans. Instead, this pa... Read More about Subjecting cows to robots: farming technologies and the making of animal subjects.

Possible food economies: A methodological framework for exploring food production-consumption relationships (2007)
Journal Article
Holloway, L., Kneafsey, M., Venn, L., Cox, R., Dowler, E., & Tuomainen, H. (2007). Possible food economies: A methodological framework for exploring food production-consumption relationships. Sociologia ruralis, 47(1), 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9523.2007.00427.x

Modes of food production-consumption defined as 'alternative' have received considerable academic attention, with studies exploring both their potential for contributing to rural development strategies and the opportunities they provide for counterin... Read More about Possible food economies: A methodological framework for exploring food production-consumption relationships.

Exploring biopower in the regulation of farm animal bodies: genetic policy interventions in UK livestock (2007)
Journal Article
Holloway, L., & Morris, C. (2007). Exploring biopower in the regulation of farm animal bodies: genetic policy interventions in UK livestock. Life Sciences, society and policy, 3(2), 82 - 98. https://doi.org/10.1186/1746-5354-3-2-82

This paper explores the analytical relevance of Foucault’s notion of biopower in the context of regulating and managing non-human lives and populations, specifically those animals that are the focus of livestock breeding based on genetic techniques.... Read More about Exploring biopower in the regulation of farm animal bodies: genetic policy interventions in UK livestock.

Managing sustainable farmed landscape through 'alternative' food networks: a case study from Italy (2006)
Journal Article
Holloway, L., Cox, R., Venn, L., Kneafsey, M., Dowler, E., & Tuomainen, H. (2006). Managing sustainable farmed landscape through 'alternative' food networks: a case study from Italy. The Geographical journal, 172(3), 219-229. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4959.2006.00205.x

This paper focuses on a case study of an 'alternative' food network based in the Abruzzo National Park, Italy, to explore how ideas of sustainable farmland management can be expressed through broader understandings of developing networks of care conc... Read More about Managing sustainable farmed landscape through 'alternative' food networks: a case study from Italy.

Researching European 'alternative' food networks: Some methodological considerations (2006)
Journal Article
Venn, L., Kneafsey, M., Holloway, L., Cox, R., Dowler, E., & Tuomainen, H. (2006). Researching European 'alternative' food networks: Some methodological considerations. Area, 38(3), 248-258. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4762.2006.00694.x

Recent European literature on 'alternative' food networks (AFNs) draws heavily upon an apparently accessible and diverse body of non-conventional food networks in the agro-food sector and whilst researchers frequently refer to individual examples of... Read More about Researching European 'alternative' food networks: Some methodological considerations.

Aesthetics, genetics, and evaluating animal bodies: locating and displacing cattle on show and in figures (2005)
Journal Article
Holloway, L. (2005). Aesthetics, genetics, and evaluating animal bodies: locating and displacing cattle on show and in figures. Environment and planning. D, Society & space, 23(6), 883-902. https://doi.org/10.1068/d59j

In this paper I examine intertwined modes of bodily evaluation and genetic understanding evident in relation to 'modernising' tendencies in contemporary agriculture, using a case study of pedigree cattle breeding. These modes afford different perspec... Read More about Aesthetics, genetics, and evaluating animal bodies: locating and displacing cattle on show and in figures.

Producing-consuming food: Closeness, connectedness and rurality in four 'alternative' food networks (2004)
Book Chapter
Holloway, L., & Kneafsey, M. (2004). Producing-consuming food: Closeness, connectedness and rurality in four 'alternative' food networks. In L. Holloway, & M. Kneafsey (Eds.), Geographies of Rural Cultures and Societies (262-282). Ashgate. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315254487

In this chapter, the authors explore some key ideas and relationships associated with what they categorize as 'alternative' food production-consumption networks. They outline some key currents of debate surrounding contemporary agro-food networks. Th... Read More about Producing-consuming food: Closeness, connectedness and rurality in four 'alternative' food networks.

Geographies of rural cultures and societies (2004)
Book
Lewis, H., & Moya, K. (Eds.). (2004). Geographies of rural cultures and societies. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315254487

© Lewis Holloway and Moya Kneafsey 2004. All right reserved. The last decade or so has witnessed a flourishing of research in rural geography; in particular, approaches which have developed socio-cultural perspectives on rural issues. This book bring... Read More about Geographies of rural cultures and societies.

People and place: The extraordinary geographies of everyday life (2000)
Book
Holloway, L., & Hubbard, P. (2000). People and place: The extraordinary geographies of everyday life. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315838694

An innovative introduction to Human Geography, exploring different ways of studying the relationships between people and place, and putting people at the centre of human geography. The book covers behavioural, humanistic and cultural traditions, show... Read More about People and place: The extraordinary geographies of everyday life.

University Of Hull MTB Trail Centre Research Summary Report
Report
Gibbs, D., & Holloway, L. (2019). University Of Hull MTB Trail Centre Research Summary Report. Hull, UK: University of Hull

This report provides a summary of key findings from a small research project conducted in 2018, focusing on mountain bike trail centres as an example of the ‘experience economy’. The research included interviews with representatives of public and pri... Read More about University Of Hull MTB Trail Centre Research Summary Report.