This paper raises concern
for the situated nature of knowledge production in relation to food
politics. Investigating
geographies of food sovereignty and food security requires attention to where
and how different contexts set the stage for specific discourses related to
food and eating come into existence.
This paper specifically examines how the concept of food sovereignty is
troubled in New Zealand due to the role of the dairy industry in the global economy,
the pervasive branding of New Zealand as ‘pure’, and the politics of
sovereignty within a multicultural former British colony. Bringing these concerns to the fore
enables an exploration of the web of assemblages that comprise the political
projects of outward focused government policies and the inward focused mundane
politics of eating.