Conceptualising components, conditions and trajectories of food sovereignty’s ‘sovereignty’

Antonio Roman-Alcalá

Third World Quarterly, 2016, vol. 37, issue 8, 1388-1407

Abstract: This paper addresses the ambiguity of the term ‘sovereignty’ in food sovereignty (FS), intending to clarify the ‘aspirational sovereignty’ that food sovereignty movements indicate as the ideal configuration of power that would allow FS to flourish, or which might help measure movement towards FS. Since aspirational sovereignty is conditioned by existing power relations, the paper elaborates components of ‘actually existing sovereignty’, based on readings of a variety of political and social science literatures. By critically assessing the difference between actually existing and aspirational sovereignty across three geographic–political levels, the paper offers strategic options for constructing FS, and suggests what such an elaborated definition of FS’s sovereignty might offer future research on FS.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/01436597.2016.1142366

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