ABSTRACT
Since the mid-1990s, ‘food sovereignty’ has emerged as a powerful mobilizing frame for social movements, a set of legal and quasi-legal norms and practices aimed at transforming food and agriculture systems, and a free-floating signifier filled with varying kinds of
I presented an earlier version of this paper at the International Conference on Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue, Yale University, 14-15 September 2013, and at the Anthropology Colloquium, CUNY Graduate Center, 1 November 2013. I greatly appreciate the constructive comments I received from participants in both fora and from an anonymous JPS reviewer. The paper draws on research that over the years received support (for which I am most grateful) from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (Grants 5180 and 5627), the US National Science Foundation (Grants 9319905 and 0107491), and the PSC-CUNY Awards Program (Grants 668480 and 635290032).
