Food Sovereignty in International Context: Discourse, politics and practice of place

Author:   Amy Trauger (University of Georgia, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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9781138618244


Pages:   248
Publication Date:   08 June 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Food sovereignty is an emerging discourse of empowerment and autonomy in the food system with the development of associated practices in rural and some urban spaces. While literature on food sovereignty has proliferated since the first usage of the term in 1996 at the Rome Food Summit, most has been descriptive rather than explanatory in nature, and often confuses food sovereignty with other movements and objectives such as alternative food networks, food justice, or food self-sufficiency. This book is a collection of empirically rich and theoretically engaged papers across a broad geographical spectrum reflecting on what constitutes the politics and practices of food sovereignty. They contribute to a theoretical gap in the food sovereignty literature as well as a relative shortage of empirical work on food sovereignty in the global ""North"", much previous work having focussed on Latin America. Specific case studies are included from Canada, Norway, Switzerland, southern Europe, UK and USA, as well as Africa, India and Ecuador. The book presents new research on the emergence of food sovereignties. It offers a wide variety of empirical examples and a theoretically engaged framework for explaining the aims of actors and organizations working toward autonomy and democracy in the food system.

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Author:   Amy Trauger (University of Georgia, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.376kg
ISBN:  

9781138618244


ISBN 10:   1138618241
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   08 June 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Putting Food Sovereignty in Place Amy Trauger Part 1: Discourse 2. Where are the Local Communities? Food Sovereignty Discourses on International Agrobiodiversity Conservation Strategies Claudio Brenni 3. Farmers, Foodies and First Nations: Getting to Food Sovereignty in Canada? Annette Aurélie Desmarais and Hannah Wittman 4. Food Sovereignty in the Global North: The Application of a Social Justice Framework for a Common Language and Approach Alanna Higgins 5. Framing Food Provisioning Research in the UK: Whither Food Sovereignty? Carol Morris, Susanne Seymour and Adam Spencer Part 2: Politics 6. Food Security, Food Sovereignty, and the Nation-state: Historicizing Norwegian Farmland Policy Heidi Vinge 7. Repositioning Food Sovereignty: Between Ecuadorian Nationalist and Cosmopolitan Politics Alberto Arce, Stephen Sherwood and Myriam Paredes 8. Seed Sovereignty as Civil Disobedience in Northern India? Amy Trauger 9. Talking Around TT: Food Sovereignty as Unifying Discourse in the Southern Alberta Food System Trina Filan Part 3: Practice 10. Framing Multiple Food Sovereignties: Comparing the Nyéléni Declaration and the Local Food and Self-Governance Ordinance in Maine Hilda E. Kurtz 11. Gender, Food Sovereignty and Agrarian Reforms Susie Jacobs 12. Food Sovereignty in the Fields: Seed Exchange and Participatory Plant Breeding of Wheat Landraces in Italy Elisa Da Vià 13. When Global goes Sweet, Locals turn Sour: Wine Sovereignty in Switzerland Melaine Laesslé

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Amy Trauger is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Georgia, Athens, USA.

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