Christopher Mayes is a DECRA Research Fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University and Research Affiliate with Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney.

Mayes’ book is an important and, yes, unsettling reminder that in the Australian context, too, a return to smallholder farming as an antidote to the world’s food woes, is a return to an imaginary thick with dispossession and unfree labour.

• Introduction: beach barbeques, dispossession and problematization / 1. Cultivating sovereignty: agriculture, racism, and the problem of settling Australia / 2. Producing ‘Little England’: farmers, graziers, and the creation of home / 3. Alternative problems, alternative solutions: security and sovereignty in the global food system / 4. Whiteness and the contested spaces of alternative food / 5. Unsettling food sovereignty in Australia / 6. Whose sovereignty? Competing sovereignties and the tactical return to rights / 7. Negotiating relations: food politics after the Uluru Statement from the Heart / Bibliography / Index

Christopher Mayes is a DECRA Research Fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University and Research Affiliate with Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney.

Mayes’ book is an important and, yes, unsettling reminder that in the Australian context, too, a return to smallholder farming as an antidote to the world’s food woes, is a return to an imaginary thick with dispossession and unfree labour.

• Introduction: beach barbeques, dispossession and problematization / 1. Cultivating sovereignty: agriculture, racism, and the problem of settling Australia / 2. Producing ‘Little England’: farmers, graziers, and the creation of home / 3. Alternative problems, alternative solutions: security and sovereignty in the global food system / 4. Whiteness and the contested spaces of alternative food / 5. Unsettling food sovereignty in Australia / 6. Whose sovereignty? Competing sovereignties and the tactical return to rights / 7. Negotiating relations: food politics after the Uluru Statement from the Heart / Bibliography / Index

Christopher Mayes is a DECRA Research Fellow in the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University and Research Affiliate with Sydney Health Ethics at the University of Sydney.

Mayes’ book is an important and, yes, unsettling reminder that in the Australian context, too, a return to smallholder farming as an antidote to the world’s food woes, is a return to an imaginary thick with dispossession and unfree labour.

• Introduction: beach barbeques, dispossession and problematization / 1. Cultivating sovereignty: agriculture, racism, and the problem of settling Australia / 2. Producing ‘Little England’: farmers, graziers, and the creation of home / 3. Alternative problems, alternative solutions: security and sovereignty in the global food system / 4. Whiteness and the contested spaces of alternative food / 5. Unsettling food sovereignty in Australia / 6. Whose sovereignty? Competing sovereignties and the tactical return to rights / 7. Negotiating relations: food politics after the Uluru Statement from the Heart / Bibliography / Index