Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country

Exclusionary and regressive politics are on the rise globally. How do food sovereignty struggles help counter these forces? We ground our analysis on how EHNE-Bizkaia, a Via Campesina member organisation in the Basque Country, conceptualises and practices food sovereignty. Inspired by Massey's...

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Autores: Calvário, Rita, Desmarais, Annette Aurélie, Azkarraga Etxagibel, Joseba
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2019
País:España
Institución:Universidad del País Vasco
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Palabra clave:Basque Country
emancipatory politics
food sovereignty
right-wing populism
solidarity from below
farmers
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spelling Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque CountryCalvário, RitaDesmarais, Annette AurélieAzkarraga Etxagibel, JosebaBasque Countryemancipatory politicsfood sovereigntyright-wing populismsolidarity from belowfarmersExclusionary and regressive politics are on the rise globally. How do food sovereignty struggles help counter these forces? We ground our analysis on how EHNE-Bizkaia, a Via Campesina member organisation in the Basque Country, conceptualises and practices food sovereignty. Inspired by Massey's 'politics of place beyond place' and Featherstone's work on left politics and solidarity, we shed light on the ways that this organisation mobilises food sovereignty to establish political bonds between those marginalised by neo-liberalism, helping to construct political identities and enact forms of subaltern agency that challenge uneven power relations and geographies. We argue that 'solidarity from below' is key in building an emancipatory rural politics rooted in class-based alliances, intersectionality, and internationalism as well as non-exclusionary notions of sovereignty. The article provides theoretical and empirical insights on what constitutes an emancipatory politics of food sovereignty that has the potential to act as a counterforce to right-wing populism.This research was made possible through funding from the Canada Research Chair Program and also contributes to the JUSTFOOD project (number: 29355), financed by the FCT, in which Rita Calvario is a postdoc researcher. The authors are grateful to all who supported the fieldwork in Biscay as well as two anonymous reviewers and the Sociologia Ruralis editor for helpful comments on previous versions of this article.Wiley202020202019info:eu-repo/semantics/articleapplication/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10810/48961reponame:Addi. Archivo Digital para la Docencia y la Investigacióninstname:Universidad del País VascoIngléshttps://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/soru.12264info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccesshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/es/2019 The Authors. Sociologia Ruralis published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Society for Rural Sociology. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.oai:addi.ehu.eus:10810/489612026-06-18T09:23:17Z
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title Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country
spellingShingle Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country
Calvário, Rita
Basque Country
emancipatory politics
food sovereignty
right-wing populism
solidarity from below
farmers
title_short Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country
title_full Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country
title_fullStr Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country
title_full_unstemmed Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country
title_sort Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Calvário, Rita
Desmarais, Annette Aurélie
Azkarraga Etxagibel, Joseba
author Calvário, Rita
author_facet Calvário, Rita
Desmarais, Annette Aurélie
Azkarraga Etxagibel, Joseba
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author2 Desmarais, Annette Aurélie
Azkarraga Etxagibel, Joseba
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Basque Country
emancipatory politics
food sovereignty
right-wing populism
solidarity from below
farmers
topic Basque Country
emancipatory politics
food sovereignty
right-wing populism
solidarity from below
farmers
description Exclusionary and regressive politics are on the rise globally. How do food sovereignty struggles help counter these forces? We ground our analysis on how EHNE-Bizkaia, a Via Campesina member organisation in the Basque Country, conceptualises and practices food sovereignty. Inspired by Massey's 'politics of place beyond place' and Featherstone's work on left politics and solidarity, we shed light on the ways that this organisation mobilises food sovereignty to establish political bonds between those marginalised by neo-liberalism, helping to construct political identities and enact forms of subaltern agency that challenge uneven power relations and geographies. We argue that 'solidarity from below' is key in building an emancipatory rural politics rooted in class-based alliances, intersectionality, and internationalism as well as non-exclusionary notions of sovereignty. The article provides theoretical and empirical insights on what constitutes an emancipatory politics of food sovereignty that has the potential to act as a counterforce to right-wing populism.
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