This paper provides an alternative narrative for organizing food systems. It introduces meshwork as a novel theoretical lens to examine the ontological assumptions underlying the shadow and informal dynamics of organizing food. Through a longitudinal qualitative case study, we place relationality and becoming at the centre of organizing food and food systems, demonstrating how entangled relationships can create a complex ontology through the meshwork knots, threads and weave. We show how issues of collective concern come together to form dynamic knots of interactions, how the threads within the meshwork indicate processes of movement, and how the weave suggests degrees of food system resilience—but always in flow. This theoretical approach thus provides a platform for addressing thoughtful concerns about “food matters” including the integrity of our global food system, the negative health and environmental impacts of industrialized food production, and food safety issues.

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组织周到的食物：网状方法

本文为组织粮食系统提供了另一种叙述方式。它引入了网格作为一种新颖的理论镜头，以检查组织食物的阴影和非正式动态背后的本体论假设。通过纵向定性案例研究，我们将关系和成为组织食物和食物系统的中心，展示了纠缠的关系如何通过网状结、线和编织创建复杂的本体。我们展示了集体关注的问题如何聚集在一起形成相互作用的动态结，网状结构中的线如何指示运动过程，以及编织如何表明食物系统的弹性程度——但始终处于流动状态。