Commentary
Theme issue: Alternative food networks: European perspectives
Guest editors: Pierre Stassart, Sarah Whatmore, Henk Renting
Guest editorial
Understanding alternative food networks: exploring the role of short food supply chains in rural development 393 – 411
Henk Renting, Terry K Marsden, Jo Banks
Managing pests, consumers, and commitments: the case of apple growers and pear growers in Belgium's Lower Meuse region 413 – 427
Eric Collet, Marc Mormont
On promising niches and constraining sociotechnical regimes: the case of Dutch wheat and bread 429 – 448
Johannes S C Wiskerke
Metabolising risk: food scares and the un/re-making of Belgian beef 449 – 462
Pierre Stassart, Sarah J Whatmore
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Contesting the state: discourses of the Asian economic crisis and mediating strategies of electronics firms in Singapore 463 – 488
Karen P Y Lai, Henry Wai-chung Yeung
Heterosexism and the geographies of everyday life in Belfast, Northern Ireland 489 – 510
Rob Kitchin, Karen Lysaght
Utilities, land-use change, and urban development: brownfield sites as 'cold-spots' of infrastructure networks in Berlin 511 – 529
Timothy Moss
Public housing and the rescaling of regulation in the USA 531 – 549
Jason Hackworth
Local labour markets and individual transitions into and out of poverty: evidence from the British Household Panel Study waves 1 to 8 551 – 568
Andrew McCulloch
Reviews 569 – 570
Prudham on Beamish: Silent spill: the organization of an industrial crisis