Globalization and Food Sovereignty: Global and Local Change in the New Politics of Food. Edited by Peter Andree, Jeffrey Ayres, Michael J. Bosia, & Marie-Josee Massicotte. Toronto, ON: University of Toronto Press, 2014. 392 pp. ISBN 9781442612280.Globalization and Food Sovereignty looks at how individuals and communities are coming together to resist and transform globalized food regimes. Drawing on a number of case studies, the book successfully discusses and analyzes how the concept of food sovereignty is utilized by multiple actors as an organizing principle in order to gain power and authority within the global food regime. Coherently structured, the book moves from theoretical analysis to solid empirical research. The work clearly fits into the tradition of political economy with an emphasis on how capitalism has intensified and expanded the industrial model of agriculture. This book is aptly timed against the backdrop of the growing global food crisis, when new theoretical alternatives are needed.The book is divided into three coherent sections. Part 1, "Food Sovereignty in Theory and Policy Debates," examines the concept of food sovereignty. It explores the tensions and contradictions inherent in a globalized neoliberal food system. In Chapter 2, "The Territory of Self-Determination: Social Reproduction, Agro-Ecology, and the Role of the State," Michael Menser effectively articulates the link between democracy and expressions of food sovereignty. In Chapter 3-one of the most provocative chapters in the book-"Exploring the Limits of Fair Trade: The Local Food Movement in the Context of Late Capitalism," Noah Zerbe uses a "moral economy" lens to compare the transformative potential of the global fair trade movement to that of the local food movement, arguing that the local food movement can only have limited impact within a very globalized capitalist agri-food system without broader social justice, oppositional, and transformative considerations in mind. Rather, Zerbe contends that successful food movements aim to actually oppose and transform the system instead of trying to work within it. In Chapter 4, "Local Food: Food Sovereignty or Myth of Alternative Consumer Sovereignty?" Martha McMahon also emphasizes that alternative movements that tend to adopt an individualist and consumer-focused discourse, as opposed to a more radical agrarian citizenship-based discourse, are unable to tackle the challenges created by the system. In each of these chapters, the truly innovative insight comes from the proposed theoretical framework that extends beyond the traditional boundaries of the state to recognize the role that social networks can play as spaces of democracy.Part 2, "Food Sovereignty in Comparative Perspective," embraces empirical evidence of how the neoliberalization of food and agriculture is transforming practices on the ground. The case studies begin to unravel the complexity and tensions embedded in the movements mobilizing to gain power and authority over food systems. The emphasis in Part 2 is on how different actors engage in food sovereignty. In Chapter 5, on "citizen farmers," Peter Andre e examines more closely alternative food networks in Australia, one of the most liberalized agricultural sectors.Although he observes that farmers are market driven because they are embedded and structured by neoliberal norms, he still believes this movement of change can lead to first steps toward the transformation of the system. In Chapter 6, "From Food Security to Food Sovereignty in Canada: Resistance and Authority in the Context," Sarah J. Martin and Peter Andree examine how the food sovereignty movement has gained power and authority around food governance. Contrary to other chapters, their analysis focuses on the discourse of food sovereignty and the frames that are being used by food security organizations in Canada. …