Journal of Peasant Studies new special issue: critical perspectives on Food Sovereignty

A new special issue on ‘Critical perspectives on food sovereignty’ from the Journal of Peasant Studies has been released, with free articles available for a limited period. The guest editors are Marc Edelman, James C. Scott, Amita Baviskar, Saturnino M. Borras Jr., Deniz Kandiyoti, Eric Holt-Gimenez, Tony Weis and Wendy Wolford.

The issue is volume 2 in a series on Global Agrarian Transformations (Volume 1 is also still accessible for free from the Taylor and Francis website).

As JPS’s contribution to the ongoing food sovereignty debate, the journal is also making available for free for a limited time three commentary articles:

• A comment on Henry Bernstein's way with peasants, and food sovereignty Philip McMichael
• Can there be food sovereignty here? Tania Murray Li
• The debate on food sovereignty theory: agrarian capitalism, dispossession and agroecology Kees Jansen

Related articles

• Food Sovereignty: a critical dialogue – event in January 2014
• Missing politics and food sovereignty by Ian Scoones, 27 January 2014 (Future Agricultures blog)
• Food sovereignty: a growing activist and intellectual movement by Ruth Hall, 27 January 2014 (PLAAS blog)