Food sovereignty and new peasantries

On re-peasantization and counter-hegemonic contestations in the Basque territory

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2157283
AutoresRita Calvário (0000-0003-1424-6573, autor de correspondencia)
Año2017
Volumen44
Número2
Páginas402-420
Fecha de publicación2017-03-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Peasant Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0306-6150 • E-ISSN: 1743-9361
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03066150.2016.1259219
OpenAlexW2581689693
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas30
Referencias citadas22

This paper contributes to debates about the potential of re-peasantization and its contribution to food sovereignty with a case study from the global North, where such questions are relatively under-studied. I examine how Euskal Herriko Nekazarien Elkartasuna (EHNE)-Bizkaia, a Vía Campesina member organization from the Basque Country (Spain), advances food sovereignty through re-peasantization. I also analyze the motivations of new peasants engaged in agroecology, their understandings of food sovereignty, and the challenges that they face. Using a Gramscian political ecology framework, I argue that whereas re-peasantization contributes to a shift from corporatist to counter-hegemonic struggles, the political-economic and biophysical contexts structure agroecological production in ways that limit the extent to which new peasantries can become 'agents of their own history'. I conclude that closer attention to peasants' messy practices of making a living is needed to address questions of political agency

Agency (philosophy · Agriculture · Agroecology · Face (sociological concept · Food security · Food sovereignty · Food systems · Geography · Hegemony · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Sovereignty · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering · Law · Political Economy and Marxism