People, power, change: three pillars of a food sovereignty research praxis

Our group has published a new article on the practice of food sovereignty research, available open access from the Journal of Peasant Studies.

Levkoe, C. Z., Brem-Wilson, J. & Anderson, C. R. 2018. People, power, change: three pillars of a food sovereignty research praxis. The Journal of Peasant Studies, 1-24.

The article is situated within debates on the role of academics within food sovereignty movements. Drawing on insights from a collective autoethnography, we report on our experiences conducting three food sovereignty research projects in different contexts and at different scales. We suggest that that the principles and practices of food sovereignty translate into a food sovereignty research praxis. This consists of three pillars focusing on people (humanizing research relationships), power (equalizing power relations) and change (pursuing transformative orientations). This article discusses these pillars and analyzes the extent to which we were able to embody them within our projects.