In this Development Research Seminar Dr Guntra Aistara will present her book Organic sovereignties: Stuggles over farming in a age of free trade
- Associate professor
- Date
- Thursday 7 Dec 2023, 16:15 - 17:15
- Type
- Seminar
- Spoken Language
- English
- Room
- Room 3.42
- Location
- International Institute of Social Studies
The book explores how organic farmers and their movements in peripheral places negotiate sovereignties at different levels in the face of supra-state governance mechanisms.
Aistara argues that organic agricultural movements use certification as a way to mediate their relations to their landscapes, markets, state and supra state, negotiating interstitial spaces of sovereignty in the face of various forms of conventionalization. Interlinked diversities emerge as organic farmers use innovative practices to create their farms as unique places and contest regulations that threaten to delegitimize or criminalize their most innovative practices, in what she calls struggles for organic sovereignties.
At the end of the seminar she will also consider how the ideas of 'networking diversities' will be relevant for her new work on land-sea relational seascapes and foodscapes on the west coast of Latvia.
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The Development Research seminars present cutting-edge research on development studies by noted scholars from around the world. The Series aims to stimulate critical discussion about contemporary development issues.
