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Schneider, Tanja, Eli, Karin, McLennan, Amy, Dolan, Catherine, Lezaun, Javier and Ulijaszek, Stanley (2017) 'Governance by campaign: the co-constitution of food issues, publics and expertise through new information and communication technologies.' Information, Communication and Society, 22 (2). 172 -192.

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Abstract

This paper considers food as a site of public engagement with science and technology. Specifically, we focus on how public engagement with food is envisioned and operationalised by one non-profit organisation, foodwatch. Founded in Germany in 2002, foodwatch extensively uses new information and communication technologies to inform consumers about problematic food industry practices. In this paper, we present our analysis of 50 foodwatch e-newsletters published over a period of one year (2013). We define foodwatch’s approach as ‘governance by campaign’ – an approach marked by simultaneously constituting: (a) key food governance issues, (b) affective publics that address these topics of governance through ICT-enabled media and (c) independent food and food-related expertise. We conclude our paper with a discussion of foodwatch’s mode of ‘governance by campaign’ and the democratic limits and potentials of a governance mode that is based on invited participation.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: Politics of food, public participation, interactions experts/public, non-profit organisation, collective action / connective action
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Anthropology & Sociology
Legacy Departments > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Department of Anthropology and Sociology
ISSN: 1369118X
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2017.1363264
Date Deposited: 10 Sep 2017 15:51
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/24468

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