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Translating Food Sovereignty: Cultivating Justice in an Age of Transnational Governance

Into the ambivalence that characterizes debates about the usefulness of human rights to social movements under conditions of late capitalism wades Matthew C. Canfield with his book Translating Food Sovereignty. Asking readers early and often what it means to claim sovereignty rather than rights, he doubles back on rights and regulation throughout the book, arguing that they are useful tools of liberation through the lens of translation. He argues that mobilization of alternative discourses can open the debate on the meaning of food, food security, knowledge, or rights. Armed with expanded ideas of what is possible, actors on scales from the local to the global, detailed in his book, have been able to leverage those alternative narratives to shape policy in what he calls “governance from below” (p. 7).