Globalization and Food Sovereignty

Peter Andrée is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Carleton University. Jeffrey Ayres is a professor in the Department of Political Science at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont. Michael J. Bosia is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Saint Michael’s College in Colchester, Vermont. Marie-Josée Massicotte is an associate professor in the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.

 


Part I – Food Sovereignty in Theory and Policy Debates


Chapter One – Food Sovereignty and Globalization: Lines of Inquiry - Peter Andrée, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael J. Bosia and Marie-Josée Massicotte


Chapter Two – The Territory of Self-Determination: Social Reproduction, Agro-Ecology and the Role of the State – Michael Menser (Brooklyn College, Philosophy)


Chapter Three – Exploring the Limits of Fair Trade: The Local Food Movement in the Context of Late Capitalism – Noah Zerbe (Humboldt State University, Politics)


Chapter Four – Local Food: Food Sovereignty or Myth of Alternative Consumer Sovereignty? – Martha McMahon (University of Victoria, Sociology)


 


Part II – Food Sovereignty in Comparative Perspective


Chapter Five – The New Citizen-Farmers: The Challenges and Possibilities of Australia’s Emerging Alternative Agri-Food Networks – Peter Andrée


Chapter Six – A Seat at the Neoliberal Table: From Food Security to Food Sovereignty in Canada – Sarah Martin (University of Waterloo, Global Governance) and Peter Andrée


Chapter Seven – Food Sovereignty in Practice: A Study of Farmer-Led Sustainable Agriculture in the Philippines – Sarah Wright (University of Newcastle, Geography)


Chapter Eight – Free Markets for All: Transition Economies and the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy – Irena Knezevic (York University, Communication and Culture)


 


Part III – Food Sovereignty in Contentious Politics


Chapter Nine – Feminist Political Ecology and La Via Campesina’s Struggle for Food Sovereignty Through the Experience of the Escola Latino-Americana de Agroecologia (ELAA) – Marie-Josée Massicotte


Chapter Ten – Food Sovereignty, Trade Rules and the Struggle to Know Origins of Food – Elizabeth Smythe (Concordia University College of Alberta, Canada, Faculty of Arts and Political Science)


Chapter Eleven – Food Sovereignty as Localized Resistance to Globalization in France and the United States – Jeffrey Ayres and Michael J. Bosia


Conclusion – The Food Sovereignty Lens – Philip McMichael (Cornell University, Sociology)