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Title: Solidarities from Below in the Making of Emancipatory Rural Politics: Insights from Food Sovereignty Struggles in the Basque Country
Authors: Calvário, Rita 
Desmarais, Annette Aurélie
Azkarraga, Joseba
Keywords: Basque Country; Emancipatory politics; Food sovereignty; Right‐wing populism; Solidarity from below
Issue Date: 6-Jul-2019
Publisher: Wiley
Project: 029355 
Canada Research Chair Program 
Serial title, monograph or event: Sociologia Ruralis
Issue: Special Issue
Abstract: 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 Vía 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.
Description: First published: 06 July 2019
URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10316/87655
ISSN: 0038-0199
1467-9523
DOI: 10.1111/soru.12264
Rights: openAccess
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