ABSTRACT

Discussion on food sovereignty and agro-ecology, and Anglophone rural sociology have blind spots when it comes to the Middle East/North African (Arab) region. This article explores them; outlines some initial concepts, discusses avenues for research, and notes some socio-political features of the region which make it distinct from others. It focuses on the necessity to include war and the national question to understand the regional agrarian question and advances and retreats in regional knowledge production. It proceeds by (1) establishing the relative absence of the region from the leading peasant studies journals; (2) synthesizing the region’s political economy and waves of knowledge production; (3) highlighting local traditions which speak to the questions of food sovereignty and agro-ecology; and (4) listing a series of theoretical, historical, and analytical avenues which remain to be addressed.

摘要

当涉及到中东/北非（阿拉伯）地区时，关于粮食主权和农业生态学以及讲英语的农村社会学的讨论存在盲点。本文探讨了它们；概述了一些初步概念，讨论了研究途径，并指出了该地区的一些社会政治特征，使其与其他地区不同。重点关注包括战争和民族问题的必要性，以了解区域土地问题和区域知识生产的进退。它通过（1）确定该地区在主要农民研究期刊中的相对缺失；(2) 综合区域政治经济和知识生产浪潮；(3) 突出涉及粮食主权和农业生态问题的地方传统；(4) 列出一系列理论，