@article{79b5e42eed484eaf99085e59de4377ac,
title = "Cultivating hybrid collectives: research methods for enacting community food economies in Australia and the Philippines",
abstract = "Across the globe, groups are experimenting with initiatives to create alternatives to the dominant food system. What role might research play in helping to strengthen and multiply these initiatives? In this paper we discuss two research projects in Australia and the Philippines in which we have cultivated hybrid collectives of academic researchers, lay researchers and various non-human others with the intention of enacting community food economies. We feature three critical interactions in the {"}hybrid collective research method{"}: gathering, which brings together those who share concerns about community food economies; reassembling, in which material gathered is deliberatively rebundled to amplify particular insights; and translating, by which reassembled ideas are taken up by other collectives so they may continue to {"}do work{"}. We argue that in a climate-changing world, the hybrid collective research method fosters opportunities for a range of human and non-human participants to act in concert to build community food economies. {\textcopyright} 2014 Taylor & Francis.",
keywords = "research-methods, actancy, hybrid-collective, community-economies, research methods, community economies, hybrid collective, action research",
author = "Jenny Cameron and Katherine Gibson and Ann HILL",
note = "Funding Information: 1. The concept of community food economies draws on Gibson-Graham{\textquoteright}s theorisation of commu-nity economies (Gibson-Graham 2006; see also Gibson-Graham et al. 2013). 2. For more on Newcastle{\textquoteright}s community food economy, see Cameron (2012). 3. PUVeP had been running for many years earlier. With funding from the Germany embassy, GTZ (German Agency for Technical Cooperation) and other EU bodies, the allotment gardens had become a demonstration site of best practice in urban agriculture in the majority world. For more on PUVeP, see Holmer and Drescher (2005). 4. The project was largely funded by an Australian Research Council Grant, LP 0347118. 5. John Pearce was a community and social enterprise pioneer who generously contributed his extensive knowledge and expertise. Sadly, John died on 12 December 2011. 6. For more on this appreciative stance, see the feedback provided by the community gardeners after the travelling workshop discussed in Cameron (2011, pp. 502–505). 7. For more on these types of ethical concerns, see Gibson-Graham et al. (2013). 8. PlaceStories is an open-access, web-based digital story-telling technology (developed by Feral Arts with Australia Council funding). Still images are zoomed in or scanned over to provide a visual story, and the images are accompanied by an overlay of voices and music. 9. For more on Opol{\textquoteright}s community food economy, see Hill (2011).",
year = "2014",
doi = "10.1080/13549839.2013.855892",
language = "English",
volume = "19",
pages = "118--132",
journal = "Local Environment",
issn = "1354-9839",
publisher = "Routledge",
number = "1",
}