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Theorizing Food Sovereignty from a Class-Analytical Lens: The Case of Agrarian Mobilization in Argentina

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  • Efe Can Gürcan

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Where do the conceptual ambiguities of food sovereignty lie and how can they be overcome? This article identifies a total of five challenges that underlie these ambiguities, namely the challenge of determining how food sovereignty as a research framework can address the tensions between: (a) state–movement relationships, (b) local–national interests, (c) rural–urban conflicts, (d) individual–collective choices and (e) political intermittence–organizational continuity. Using the method of integrative review, I argue that these challenges could be overcome if the criteria for addressing these tensions were based on the interests of the classes of labour by re-envisioning food sovereignty as a social mobilization outcome that potentially leads to agrarian class formation. A class-analytical approach to food sovereignty is thus deployed to study the case of Argentina in order to contribute to a more in-depth theoretical refinement and resolution of the conceptual ambiguities of food sovereignty.

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  • Efe Can Gürcan, 2018. "Theorizing Food Sovereignty from a Class-Analytical Lens: The Case of Agrarian Mobilization in Argentina," Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy, Centre for Agrarian Research and Education for South, vol. 7(3), pages 320-350, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:agspub:v:7:y:2018:i:3:p:320-350
    DOI: 10.1177/2277976018800608
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