James C Scott: Food sovereignty A critical dialogue

Organized by the Yale University Agrarian Studies Program and The Journal of Peasant Studies in collaboration with Food First, Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies/International Institute of Social Studies (The Hague), Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), the Yale Sustainable Food Project, and Yale South Asian Studies, with support from Kempf Fund

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He criticizes the concept of "Food Sovereignty" as sounding too much like The State, which has bad impacts on food (& he has a book on The State). On the other hand, this is similar to what peasants did historically, that was made into the Bible. "Kingdom of God" means not having a human King, (God is King). The Cross symbol taken from Roman Empire. Savior of the World, from Caesar, etc. Cf. Richard Horsley (who writes about Scott,) Ched Myers in The Bible & Liberation. But did it become problematic? (Holy Roman Empire, U.S., cf. Horsley)

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Brad,
That's a somewhat idiosyncratic view of the Kingdom of God notion. Far from denying any human kings, it seems to me that secular agitators of the Jesus type are simply proposing an internally held ideal by which those unpleasant mortal rulers can be judged... and found wanting. This is not to deny their existence, nor indeed their rule, for an instant; it is to be thoroughly aware of it.
Nor do I know what you mean about primitive agriculture making it into the Bible(s). Christians want to separate wheat from tares, as do we all, but the Xian Bible seems more concerned with separating sheep from goats than actual farmers ever are.