Globalization and Food Sovereignty: Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food

Introduction – Crisis and Contention in the New Politics of Food – Peter Andrée (Carleton University, Political Science), Jeffrey Ayres (Saint Michael’s College, Political Science), Michael J. Bosia (Saint Michael’s College, Political Science) and Marie-Josée 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 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)