Mini-Conference Program

Session 1: Critiques of Resistance to Neoliberalism 

• Lawrence Busch- Is Resistance Futile? How Global Agri-Food Attempts to Co-opt the Alternatives
• Alessandro Bonanno-Best Practices: the Artificial Negativity of Agri-Food
• Steven Wolf- Rationality, Accountability, and Politics: Critical Analysis of Agri-environmental Policy in USA
• Mark Tilzey- Market Civilization’ and Global Agri-Food: Understanding their Dynamics and (In)Coherence through Multiple Resistances

Session 2: Agency and Reflexivity as Forms of Resistance

• Kae Sekine- Geographical Indication and Resistance in Global Agri-Food: The Case of Miso in Japan
• Rebecca Som Castellano- Women’s Labor and the Transformative Potential of Alternative Agrifood
• Lilian Brislen- Assembling New Subjectivities of Resistance: The Diverse Economy of Food Hubs
• Jennifer Vansteenkiste- New Perspectives on Inclusive and Sustainable Development in Rural Haiti

Session 3: Social Movements, Resistance and National and Local Initiatives

• Kyla Sankey- Communities Against Capital? Unravelling the Politics of Resistance to Colombia’s Agro-Extractivist Project.
• Ani Anthony Okorie- Corruption and Elite Large-Scale Capture/Grab of Land: Impediments to Agricultural and Rural Development in Nigeria
• Arturo Ezquerro-Canete- Agro-Extractivism and Variations of Resistance in Rural Paraguay
• Rajiv Verma- Can Grassroots Mobilization of the Poorest Reduce Corruption? A Tale of Governance Reforms and Struggle against Rent-Seeking in India

Session 4: Labor Based Movements and Resistance

• Josefa Salete Cavalcanti- Forms of Exploitation in Global Agrifood Chains and the Resistance of Small Farmers and Workers
• Kristie O’Neill- Community Groups, Cooperatives, and Merry-Go-Rounds: Enabling and Constraining Food Justice in Kenya
• Hector Fletes- Peasant Resistance to the Transnationalization of Agriculture in Mexico´s Southern Border

Session 5: The Rural-Urban Link, the Environment and Resistance to Neoliberal Domination

• Behrooz Morvaridi- The Political Economy of Partnerships between Capitalist philanthropist and the Private sector in Agrarian Transition: The Gat
• Sarah Beach- Extending Roots: Building Alliances through Urban Agricultural Initiatives
• Márcio Carneiro dos Reis- Reflecting on Counter-Hegemonic Strategies Based on Food and Nutritional Security: Notes on the Brazilian Case
• Columba Gonzalez- Resisting Monsanto: Assemblages of monarch butterflies and anthropo-electric circuits

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