ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the critical utopian lens to examine food sovereignty, one of the most important alternatives to the current industrial food system to emerge in recent times. It argues that the understanding of food sovereignty by examining it through a utopian lens and by analysing it as a call for a radical form of politics. The chapter focuses on literature on utopia and radical political philosophy, with particular connection to anarchism, as well as on empirical experiences of organised social groups. At the centre of the current understanding of utopia is the focus on the present time, rather than on pursuing a particular ideal end goal located somewhere in the future. The chapter also argues that the concept of food sovereignty encompasses the aspects of transformative utopianism; namely, containing a vision for the future while at the same time being rooted in the present and being highly political.
