ABSTRACT
This chapter suggests that alternative urban food spaces involve practices that usually relate to rural life. It discusses the premise that the production of an alternative food space in an urban setting is a re-territorialisation that is performed by sedentary inhabitants and/or migrants in a territory of food provisioning performances that is already there. The fact that the alternative urban food space is anchored in a shared interest in a specific way of performing food provision rather than being anchored in a shared performance of everyday life calls for a socially specific organisation. The chapter aims to answer three questions about alternative urban food spaces: in what ways they can be said to be alternative; how they are produced; and why alternative food spaces are designated specifically as urban. The findings point to the conclusion that the rurbal space may be more urban than rural and that urban dwellers performing alternative food provisioning may be confronted with a dilemma.
