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JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES
Volume 44, Issue 2, Pages 402-420Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/03066150.2016.1259219
Keywords
food sovereignty; re-peasantization; agroecology; alternative food movements; counter-hegemony
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- European Union [289374]
- Spain's Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad - project SINALECO [PK612919]
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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 Via 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.
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