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This book
provides theoretically-informed and empirically-rich accounts of the ways in which formerly-colonialised peoples conceptualise and practice alternatives food networks. It explores whether and how alternatives to globalizing industrial food networks can even exist in countries and regions long characterised by externally-led forms of capital accumulation and enduring hierarchies of modernity. This book furthers our understanding of how, why and
where alternatives to the globalising industrial food system emerge and thrive, or do not. The book highlights long-term 'power geometries' that have created opportunities for some alternative producer-consumer and state-market-civil society relations and not others. In contrast to those who would discard of the term 'alternative' altogether, contributions critically employ the term to enliven debates about the theoretical downsizing of capitalism and further our understanding of the complexities of alternative-mainstream relations in the postcolonial world.
List of contents
Foreword by Melissa L. Caldwell
Introduction: sovereign food spaces? Openings and closures Marisa Wilson
1 Rethinking ‘alternative’: Māori and food sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand Carolyn Morris and Stephen Fitzherbert
2 Indigenous foodways in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: an alternative-additional food network H M Ashraf Ali and Helen Vallianatos
3 Justice for the salmon: indigenous ways of life as a critical resource in envisioning alternative futures Sophia Woodman and Charles R. Menzies
4 Food sovereignty, permaculture and the postcolonial politics of knowledge in El Salvador Naomi Millner
5 Possibilities for alternative peasant trajectories through gendered food practices in the Office du Niger Nicolette Larder
6 Local food, imported food, and the failures of community gardening initiatives in Nauru Amy K. Mclennan
7 Cuban exceptionalism? A genealogy of postcolonial food networks in the Caribbean Marisa Wilson
Afterword Peter Jackson
About the author
Marisa Wilson is Chancellor’s Fellow in the Institute of Geography, School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK.
