Dominant food systems, based on industrial methods and corporate control, are in a state of flux. To enable the transition towards more sustainable and just food systems, food movements are claiming new roles in governance. These movements, and the initiatives they spearhead, are associated with a range of labels (e.g., food sovereignty, food justice, and community food security) and use a variety of strategies to enact change. In this paper, we use the concept of relational fields to conduct a post-hoc analysis of nine cases, examining how social movement organizations and other actors actively create new deliberative governance spaces. We argue that successes are related to the “power to convene,” a process-oriented approach that increases movements’ capacity to mobilize; leverage different types of power; and integrate, coordinate, and build a systems-oriented vision. The power to convene and create deliberative spaces is demonstrated in a variety of contexts and often results in outcomes that further movement aims, including policy change and repositioning food movement actors vis-à-vis others in the field. Our findings suggest that success is not only measured as policy outcomes, but as an advantageous repositioning of social movement actors that enables them to be part of governance processes beyond simple policy advocacy.

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召集的力量：理解食品运动组织在全球北方治理过程中的力量

基于工业方法和公司控制的主导食品系统处于不断变化的状态。为了实现向更加可持续和公正的粮食系统的过渡，粮食运动在治理中扮演着新的角色。这些运动及其带头的倡议与一系列标签（例如，粮食主权、粮食正义和社区粮食安全）相关联，并使用各种策略来实施变革。在本文中，我们使用关系领域的概念对九个案例进行了事后分析，研究了社会运动组织和其他参与者如何积极创造新的协商治理空间。我们认为成功与“召集的权力”有关，这是一种以过程为导向的方法，可以提高运动的动员能力；利用不同类型的权力；并整合、协调、并建立面向系统的愿景。召集和创造审议空间的能力在各种背景下得到体现，并且通常会产生进一步运动目标的结果，包括政策变化和重新定位食品运动参与者相对于该领域的其他参与者。我们的研究结果表明，成功不仅被衡量为政策成果，而且作为对社会运动参与者的有利重新定位，使他们能够成为超越简单政策倡导的治理过程的一部分。