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Book SynopsisWith perspectives drawn from Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australia, Globalization and Food Sovereignty is the first comparative collection to focus on food sovereignty activism worldwide.
Trade Review'This book is evenly high in quality... A main contribution is the book's effort to bring food to the fore in political science. Highly recommended.' -- J.M. Deutsch Choice Magazine vol52:01:2014 'Andree's Globalization and Food Sovereignty provides an insightful account of the tensions and complexities of the burgeoning concept of food sovereignty... Through a superb set of case studies, it shows how the two themes of food sovereignty and neoliberal globalization interact.' -- Patrick Clark, Chantal Clement and Amanda DiVito Wilson Canadian Food Studies vol 2:01:2015
Table of Contents"p>Introduction - Crisis and Contention in the New Politics of Food - Peter Andree (Carleton University, Political Science), Jeffrey Ayres (Saint Michael's College, Political Science), Michael J. Bosia (Saint Michael's College, Political Science) and Marie-Josee Massicotte (University of Ottawa, Political Studies) Part I - Food Sovereignty in Theory and Policy Debates Chapter One - Food Sovereignty and Globalization: Lines of Inquiry - Peter Andree, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael J. Bosia and Marie-Josee 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 Andree 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 Andree 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-Josee 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)
