Converging on food sovereignty: transnational peasant activism, pluriversality and counter-hegemony

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.

KEYWORDS:

• Decolonial
• counter-hegemony
• pluriverse
• left-wing convergence
• food sovereignty

Acknowledgements

Thanks are due to the anonymous referee for their insightful suggestions, and to the editors of the special issue for their critical and constructive comments. All remaining errors are my own.

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Robin Dunford

Dr Robin Dunford is a Principal Lecturer in the School of Humanities at the University of Brighton.