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Max Haiven, Food, finance, crisis, catalyst: global capitalism and the revolutionary value of food sovereignty
I. The problem, once again…
At risk of being obviously unfashionable or unfashonably obvious, the problem with food in the world today is capitalism. Particularly, it is a form of capitalism that imposes uniquely local but ubiquitously global forms of market sovereignty over more and more aspects of our lives. Food, which names [...]
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Scott Stoneman, Learning to learn from the food crisis: consumer sovereignty and the restructuring of subjectivity
“In every case, the geography of anger is not a simple map of action and reaction, minoritization and resistance, nested hierarchies of space and site, neat sequences of cause and effect. Rather, these geographies are the spatial outcome of complex interactions between faraway events and proximate fears, between old histories and new provocations, between rewritten [...]
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Editorial
This is the yearly issue of Politics and Culture produced from Australia, the fourth since the journal started. The content of this issue much as for our others reflects the closeness of the historical ties politically, economically, culturally – and militarily – between Australia, and the United States and Britain. These have been foregrounded by [...]
The critical and its anchorage into the social. An introduction to the 2009 winter issue of Politics and Culture