Translating Food Sovereignty

Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance

Matthew C. Canfield (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

280 Seiten

2022 | New edition
Stanford University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5036-1344-7 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	22.03.2022
Zusatzinfo	3 figures, 10 halftones
Verlagsort	Palo Alto
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Privatrecht / Bürgerliches Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-5036-1344-5 / 1503613445
ISBN-13	978-1-5036-1344-7 / 9781503613447
Zustand	Neuware