Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty

Mark Tilzey is Senior Research Fellow in the Governance of Food Systems for Resilience at Coventry University, UK. His research interests include political ecology, agroecology, agri-environmental politics and governance, and the international political economy of agri-food systems.

• 1. Introduction .- Section 1: Political Ecology, Food Regimes, and Food Sovereignty .- 2.Political Ecology and Social Systems: An Integrated, but Differentiated, Theory of Socio-Natural Dynamics .- 3. Political Ecology, Capitalism, and Food Regimes .- 4.The ‘First’ or British ‘Liberal’ Food Regime 1840-1870; The ‘Second’ or ‘Imperial’ Food Regime 1870-1930 .- 5. The Rise and Demise of the ‘Third’ or ‘Political Productivist’ Food Regime 1930-1980 .- Section 2: Crisis and Resistance .- 7. The Neoliberal Food Regime in Crisis? .- 8. Crisis and Resistance: Reform or Revolution? .- Section 3: Country Case Studies .- 9. Prelude to the Country Case Studies: The Agrarian Question and Food Sovereignty Movements .- 10. Bolivia .- 11. Ecuador .- 12. Nepal .- 13. China .- Section 4: Resilience as Counter-Hegemony .- 14. ‘Understanding the World in Order to Change It’: What Might Food Sovereignty Look Like? Or a Normative Political Ecology as Livelihood Sovereignty.