Philosophy Faculty Publications and Presentations

Barbaric, Unseen, and Unknown Orders: Innovative Research on Street and Farmers’ Markets

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2019

Abstract

Professor Morales’ Coss Dialogue Lecture demonstrates the utility of pragmatism for his work as a social scientist across three projects: 1) field research studying the acephalous and heterogenous social order of Chicago’s Maxwell Street Market; 2) nascent research how unseen religious orders animate the lives of im/migrants and their contributions to food systems; and 3) large-scale longitudinal research on farmers markets using the Metrics + Indicators for Impact (MIFI) toolkit. The first two sections of my paper applaud and build upon Morales’ first two projects, and my extremely brief third section raises some questions about positivist specters that may haunt the MIFI project insofar as it is conceptualized, described, and deployed using the terms favored by mainstream social science.

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©2019 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Publication Title

The Pluralist

DOI

10.5406/pluralist.14.1.0047

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