Globalization and food sovereignty: Global and local change in the new politics of food by Peter Andrée, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael J. Bosia, and Marie-Josée Massicotte (Eds.)

Abstract

“To demand a space of food sovereignty is to demand specific arrangements to govern territory and space” (Patel, 2009, p. 667). However, the further we move into a globalized system of food and agricultural production, the more these specific arrangements come into conflict with current global systems of governance. Andrée et al.’s Globalization and Food Sovereignty provides an insightful account of the tensions and complexities of the burgeoning concept of food sovereignty. Its holistic examination of how food sovereignty plays out in both theoretical terms and in practice, in the Global North and South, and at both the local and global levels, serves as one of its greatest strengths. Through a superb set of case studies, it shows how the two themes of food sovereignty and neoliberal globalization interact, manifesting in different ways in different locales and contexts, and at times for different ends. Drawing on contributions from a range of academic disciplines, but directed specifically at political science, this book engages in a theoretically driven analysis of food sovereignty that urges us to take notice of this “new politics of food.”