This paper considers the how changing politics of food and agriculture, part of parcel of the global crisis, can be read as challenges to or affirmations of state sovereignty, from above and below, through a new dynamic of emerging local initiatives that empower small scale agricultural markets...

Acknowledgements -- What is a market? -- Markets as metonyms of urban transformation : East London -- Markets and place-image : Rio de Janeiro -- Markets as unremarkable and remarkable places : Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Beijing -- Dis/placing markets through urban renewal : Sydney -- The...