Convention Theory in Anglophone agri-food studies: French legacies, circulation and new perspectives

Emmanuelle Cheyns & Stefano Ponte (2018) In Allaire, G. (Ed.), Daviron, B. (Ed.). (2019). Ecology, Capitalism and the New Agricultural Economy. London: Routledge. Abstract. The French school of Convention Theory (CT) has influenced various branches of agri-food studies in the past two decades, as part of a wider trend in the Anglophone social sciences (Wilkinson, 1997; Raikes et al., 2000; Biggart and Beamish, 2003; Stark, 2011; Diaz-Bone, 2012; du Gay and Morgan, 2013; Barnett, 2014). ..