Converging on food sovereignty: transnational peasant activism, pluriversality and counter-hegemony. Issue 5 (3rd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Dunford, Robin
• Is Part Of: Globalizations. Volume 17:Issue 5(2020)
• Page Start: 782
• Page End: 796
• Publication Date: 2020-07-03
• Subjects: Decolonial -- counter-hegemony -- pluriverse -- left-wing convergence -- food sovereignty; Globalization -- Periodicals; 327.17
• DOI: 10.1080/14747731.2020.1722494
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1474-7731

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper contributes to debates on left-wing convergence by reflecting on the convergence of a diverse transnational peasant movement around a value of and demand for food sovereignty. It reads convergence on food sovereignty through the idea of pluriversality developed by decolonial theorists. In so doing, it argues, first, that a politics of pluriversality has been key in fostering convergence on food sovereignty. Second, it suggests that convergence on food sovereignty highlights possibilities for convergence at a theoretical level across hitherto opposed decolonial and counter-hegemonic positions.