Over the past 25 years, activists, farmers and scholars have been
arguing that the industrialized global food system erodes
democracy, perpetuates injustices, undermines population health and
is environmentally unsustainable. In an attempt to resist these
effects, activists have proposed alternative food networks that
draw on ideas and practices from pre-industrial agrarian
smallholder farming, as well as contemporary peasant movements.
This book uses current debates over Michel Foucault's method of
genealogy as a practice of critique and historical problematization
of the present to reveal the historical constitution of
contemporary alternative food discourses. While alternative food
activists appeal to food sovereignty and agrarian discourses to
counter the influence of neoliberal agricultural policies, these
discourses remain entangled with colonial logics. In particular,
the influence of Enlightenment ideas of improvement, colonial
practices of agriculture as a means to establish ownership, and
anthropocentric relations to the land. In combination with the
genealogical analysis, this book brings continental political
philosophy into conversation with Indigenous theories of
sovereignty and alternative food discourse in order to open new
spaces for thinking about food and politics in contemporary
Australia.
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