Agroecological transitions, between determinist and open-ended visions / / Claire Lamine [and three others], editors.

• Superior document: EcoPolis
• TeilnehmendeR: Lamine, Claire,
• Place / Publishing House: Bruxelles : : Peter Lang Publishing,, 2021.
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: EcoPolis.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (312 pages) :; illustrations.

Debates around agroecology most often focus on the depth and radicality of the change and relate to different visions of agroecology, which tends to eclipse the ontological relationships of actors (or researchers) to the very 'change process' itself. This book is an endeavor to explicate relationships to change in agroecological transitions, referring to two contrasting and ideal-typical ontological relationships to change, the determinist perspective and the open-ended perspective. These conceptions or interpretations of the change process are based respectively on whether objectives and means are predetermined, or defi ned during the change process and while accounting for the uncertainty and complexity of mechanisms of change as well as for the diversity of actors'visions. Many diverse cases of agroecological transitions are discussed in this book, in order to highlight the fact that these perspectives are not always exclusive in transition process but that they can be articulated successively or combined complementarily, in different ways - thus reinforcing the potential diversity of transition pathways.

Table of Contents

List of contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface: Branching pathways in agroecological transformations -- Introduction: Taking into account the ontological relationship to change in agroecological transitions -- Intertwining deterministic and open-ended perspectives in the experimentation of agroecological production systems: A challenge for agronomy researchers -- Plant breeding for agroecology: A sociological analysis of the -- co-creation of varieties and the collectives involved -- Agroecological transitions at the scale of territorial agri-food systems -- How policy instruments may favour an articulation between open ended and deterministic perspectives to support agroecological transitions? Insights from a franco-brazilian comparison -- Teaching, training and learning for the agroecology transition: A French-Brazilian perspective -- The manufacture of futures and the agroecological transition. Deciphering pathways for sustainability transition in France -- How access and dynamics in the use of territorial resources shape agroecological transitions in crop-livestock systems: Learnings and perspectives -- The dynamics of agropastoral activities with regard to the agroecological transition -- What models of justice for the agroecological transition? The normative backdrops of the transition -- Thinking through the lens of the other: Translocal agroecology conversations -- The rhetorics of agroecology: Positions, trajectories, strategies -- Postface.