ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses community has become increasingly important because it activates a sense of social connection in online networks. The biopolitical forces of food mediation are shown to have particular consequences for society and the individual as they navigate new terrains of food mediation. The spatialising effects of web-based communications have led to the accepted dominance of urban imaginaries within the development of digital cultures. The complicated race relations of Brixton Village Market are also apparent in West Norwood, and link to a broader issue of the connection between food politics and pro-localism. The Norwood & Brixton Foodbank reported a 22 per cent increase in use during 2017–2018, with many of its users known to be in paid employment but struggling still to meet their own basic needs. The concepts of ‘vision’ and ‘visioning’ commonly used by planners around the world for a number of years take on new meaning in the context.
