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Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty: Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 2 book cover

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Critical Perspectives on Food Sovereignty Global Agrarian Transformations, Volume 2

Edited By Marc Edelman Copyright 2016
382 Pages
by Routledge

382 Pages
by Routledge

382 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume is a pioneering contribution to the study of food politics and critical agrarian studies, where food sovereignty has emerged as a pivotal concept over the past few decades, with a wide variety of social movements, on-the-ground experiments, and policy innovations flying under its broad banner. Despite its large and growing popularity, the history, theoretical foundations, and... Read more

1. Introduction: critical perspectives on food sovereignty  Marc Edelman, Tony Weis, Amita Baviskar, Saturnino M. Borras Jr, Eric Holt-Giménez, Deniz Kandiyoti and Wendy Wolford

2. Historicizing food sovereignty  Philip McMichael

3. Food sovereignty: forgotten genealogies and future regulatory challenges  Marc Edelman

4. Diálogo de saberes in La Vía Campesina: food sovereignty and agroecology  María Elena Martínez-Torres and Peter M. Rosset

5. Peasant-driven agricultural growth and food sovereignty  Jan Douwe van der Ploeg

6. Food sovereignty via the ‘peasant way’: a sceptical view  Henry Bernstein

7. What place for international trade in food sovereignty?  Kim Burnett and Sophia Murphy

8. Farmers’ rights and food sovereignty: critical insights from India  Karine Peschard

9. Life in a shrimp zone: aqua- and other cultures of Bangladesh’s coastal landscape  Kasia Paprocki and Jason Cons

10. Toward a political geography of food sovereignty: transforming territory, exchange and power in the liberal sovereign state  Amy Trauger

11. Farmers, foodies and First Nations: getting to food sovereignty in Canada  Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Hannah Wittman

12. The ‘state’ of food sovereignty in Latin America: political projects and alternative pathways in Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia  Ben McKay, Ryan Nehring and Marygold Walsh-Dilley

13. Food sovereignty in Ecuador: peasant struggles and the challenge of institutionalization  Isabella Giunta

14. Re-purposing the master’s tools: the open source seed initiative and the struggle for seed sovereignty  Jack Kloppenburg

15. Food sovereignty, food security and democratic choice: critical contradictions, difficult conciliations  Bina Agarwal

Biography

Marc Edelman, James C. Scott, Amita Baviskar, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Deniz Kandiyoti, Eric Holt-Giménez, Tony Weis, Wendy Wolford

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