Peasants as “Cosmopolitan Insurgents”

IF 1.2 Q2 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AJIL Unbound Pub Date : 2022-04-25 DOI:10.1017/aju.2022.14
Tomaso Ferrando, Elizabeth Mpofu
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The lives of peasants are strongly interconnected with their territories, economies, and local institutions. At the same time, they have been historically defined by international processes and decisions that are taken elsewhere and affect their autonomy and identity. This is clearly the case when smallholders (that is, farmers who work small plots of land, mostly less than two hectares) are part of transnational food chains, but it is also true when their market is the local community: even when peasants do not grow global food commodities, they can be affected by the dynamics and continuous expansion of the transnational food system. Given the local impacts of international processes and regulatory frameworks, peasant organizations have increasingly organized translocally to participate in the international policy spaces, and try to subvert the legal structures that are shaping their lives and territories. This essay discusses those attempts by peasants to organize beyond their local realities to increase their political power and promote their vision of international economic law as a central piece in their long term strategy for recognition, food sovereignty, and consolidation of territorial and agroecological food systems. The essay provides a diagnosis of farmers’ silencing and exclusion by international economic law, presents the movement La Vía Campesina as a platform for translocal solidarity and multi-scalar engagement, and elaborates on peasants’ “cosmopolitan insurgence” and their promotion of food sovereignty as an alternative project for international economic law.
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农民是“世界主义的起义者”
农民的生活与他们的领土、经济和地方机构紧密相连。与此同时,它们在历史上是由在其他地方进行并影响其自治和特性的国际进程和决定所界定的。当小农(即耕种小块土地的农民,大多不到两公顷)是跨国食物链的一部分时,情况显然是这样,但当他们的市场是当地社区时,情况也是如此:即使农民不种植全球粮食商品,他们也可能受到跨国粮食系统动态和持续扩张的影响。鉴于国际进程和监管框架对当地的影响,农民组织越来越多地跨地方组织起来,参与国际政策空间,并试图颠覆塑造其生活和领土的法律结构。本文讨论了农民超越当地现实组织起来的尝试,以增加他们的政治权力,并促进他们的国际经济法愿景,作为他们长期战略的核心部分,以承认,粮食主权,巩固领土和农业生态粮食系统。本文对国际经济法对农民的沉默和排斥进行了诊断,将La Vía Campesina运动作为跨地方团结和多尺度参与的平台,并详细阐述了农民的“世界性起义”和他们对粮食主权的促进作为国际经济法的替代项目。
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