The transition movement and food sovereignty: from local resilience to global engagement in food system transformation
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2014-04
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Sage, Colin
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The emergence of grassroots social movements variously preoccupied with a range of external threats, such as diminishing supplies of fossil energy or climate change, has led to increased interest in the production of local food. Drawing upon the notion of cognitive praxis, this article utilises transition as a trajectory guided by an overarching cosmology that brings together a broad social movement seeking a more resilient future. This ‘grand narrative’ is reinforced by ‘transition movement intellectuals’ who serve to shape an agenda of local preparedness in the face of uncertainty, rather than structural analysis of the global system. In this context, growing and producing food offers important multi-functional synergies by reconnecting people to place and its ecological endowments and serves to provide a vital element in civic mobilisation. Yet, local food could also become a means to build international solidarity in defence of food sovereignty and establish a global coalition opposed to the corporate agri-food agenda of biotechnologies, land grabbing and nutritional impoverishment.
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Transition , Food sovereignty , Social movements , Civic mobilisation , Food citizenship
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Sage, C. (2014) 'The transition movement and food sovereignty: from local resilience to global engagement in food system transformation', Journal of Consumer Culture, 14(2), pp. 254-275. doi: 10.1177/1469540514526281
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© 2014, Colin Sage. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by SAGE Publications in Journal of Consumer Culture on 3 April, 2014, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1469540514526281