This contribution argues that the articulation between the state and peasant organizations' internal structuresthe class characteristics of their mass bases, their leaderships and the modes of interaction between the twois critical for determining the nature of contemporary struggles guided by the discourse of food sovereignty. It will show that that counter-hegemonic demands are not synonymous with counterhegemonic practice; rather than struggling to replace the neoliberal food regime, many peasant organizations employ the food sovereignty discourse as a political tool in their negotiations with the state in order to access resources from within the prevailing neoliberal model, not to transform it.

This paper examines the class dynamics of food sovereignty in Mexico and Ecuador. It argues that the nature of contemporary demands for food sovereignty is heavily influenced by the outcomes of peasant movements' historical and ongoing internal class dynamics. Processes of class differentiation within peasant organizations in both countries have led to the interests of certain classes predominating over or at the expense of others. Despite La Vía Campesina's projection of 'unity in diversity', incorporating sometimes conflicting class interests into the movement is particularly challenging. As such, class analysis must be brought back into debates around food sovereignty in order to gauge (and potentially further) the movement's transformative potential.

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Press. 2019. 272 pp. £70 (hb); £29 (pb). ISBN: 9780520300637 Zlolniski's book analyses the ecological, social and human consequences of export agriculture in the San Quintin Valley of the Mexican state of Baja California. Based on 10 years of ethnographic fieldwork, he examines the impacts of transnational agricultural production on growers and farmworkers, in particular, how the production regime of export agriculture has externalized many of the major ecological, labour and social costs onto indigenous workers and their families in San Quintin. The book, organized as seven chapters, offers rich ethnographic insights and is well-written and engaging throughout. The author contributes to a range of debates, in particular, the relations of contract farming, the political ecology of industrial agriculture and the production and labour dynamics of contemporary agro-export production. For readers of the journal, however, the book's major theoretical contribution lies in its analysis of how the settlement of (previously migrant) workers at the site of production shapes processes of class formation and labour resistance. Moving beyond Scott's (1985) formulation of everyday forms of resistance, Zlolniski