Food sovereignty and agroecology praxis in a capitalist setting: the need for a radical pedagogy

Abstract

This article analyzes the potential for anti-capitalist politics to ‘translate' among food sovereignty proponents in Canada. I argue that a crucial tool for advancing food sovereignty and agroecology in the country will be radical pedagogy—and specifically political education efforts that advance both critical analyses of capitalism and prefigurative (post-capitalist) socio-economic arrangements. I offer a vision of a ‘praxis-pedagogy triad’ that illustrates how instances of agroecological prefiguration may relate to critical theories of capitalist political economy and the agrarian question, as well as radical pedagogies that will help a counter-hegemonic food sovereignty translate in a capitalist context.

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