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dc.contributor.authorPimbert, Michel P.
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-29T09:25:19Z
dc.date.available2020-07-29T09:25:19Z
dc.date.issued2017
dc.identifier.isbn9781138955363en_US
dc.identifier.isbn9781315666396en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/40148
dc.description.abstractContestations over knowledge – and who controls its production – are a key focus of social movements and other actors that promote food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity. This book critically examines the kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing needed for food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity. ‘Food sovereignty’ is understood here as a transformative process that seeks to recreate the democratic realm and regenerate a diversity of autonomous food systems based on agroecology, biocultural diversity, equity, social justice and ecological sustainability. It is shown that alternatives to the current model of development require radically different knowledges and epistemologies from those on offer today in mainstream institutions (including universities, policy think tanks and donor organizations). To achieve food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversity, there is a need to re-imagine and construct knowledge for diversity, decentralisation, dynamic adaptation and democracy. The authors critically explore the changes in organizations, research paradigms and professional practice that could help transform and co-create knowledge for a new modernity based on plural definitions of wellbeing. Particular attention is given to institutional, pedagogical and methodological innovations that can enhance cognitive justice by giving hitherto excluded citizens more power and agency in the construction of knowledge. The book thus contributes to the democratization of knowledge and power in the domain of food, environment and society.en_US
dc.languageEnglishen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::R Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning::RN The environment::RNC Applied ecologyen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TV Agriculture and farming::TVF Sustainable agricultureen_US
dc.subject.otherenvironment and societyen_US
dc.subject.otheragriculture and fooden_US
dc.subject.otherenvironmental sociologyen_US
dc.titleChapter 1 Constructing knowledge for food sovereignty, agroecology and biocultural diversityen_US
dc.title.alternativean overviewen_US
dc.typechapter
oapen.relation.isPublishedBy7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bben_US
oapen.relation.isPartOfBook5774c51c-59dd-4599-b87f-d8af8cc9b72aen_US
oapen.imprintRoutledgeen_US
oapen.pages57en_US
oapen.remark.public3-8-2020 - No DOI registered in CrossRef for ISBN 9781138955356


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