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Translating Food Sovereignty

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In its current state, the global food system is socially and ecologically unsustainable: nearly two billion people are food insecure, and food systems are the number one contributor to climate chan...
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  • 19 April 2022
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In its current state, the global food system is socially and ecologically unsustainable: nearly two billion people are food insecure, and food systems are the number one contributor to climate change. While agro-industrial production is promoted as the solution to these problems, growing global "food sovereignty" movements are challenging this model by demanding local and democratic control over food systems. Translating Food Sovereignty accompanies activists based in the Pacific Northwest of the United States as they mobilize the claim of food sovereignty across local, regional, and global arenas of governance. In contrast to social movements that frame their claims through the language of human rights, food sovereignty activists are one of the first to have articulated themselves in relation to the neoliberal transnational order of networked governance. While this global regulatory framework emerged to deepen market logics, Matthew C. Canfield reveals how activists are leveraging this order to make more expansive social justice claims. This nuanced, deeply engaged ethnography illustrates how food sovereignty activists are cultivating new forms of transnational governance from the ground up.

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Price: $105.00
Pages: 280
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Imprint: Stanford University Press
Publication Date: 19 April 2022
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9781503613447
Format: Hardcover
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"This book brings to life interactions among globally connected activist communities seeking to challenge dominant and rather simplistic ways of thinking about inequality, the environment, poverty, and food production. A must-read for scholars, students, and activists as well as those seeking to implement more inclusive and realistic policies."—Eve Darian-Smith, University of California, Irvine
Matthew C. Canfield is Assistant Professor of Law and Society & Law and Development at the Van Vollenhoven Institute at Leiden Law School, Leiden University.
Introduction: The Law and Politics of Food Sovereignty
1. Translocal Translation and the Practice of Networks
2. Constructing and Contesting "Local" Food Governance
3. Revaluing Agricultural Labor
4. Protecting People's Knowledge
5. Democratizing Global Food Governance
Conclusions: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance