Abstract
First paragraph: It has been nearly 25 years since the international peasants’ movement La Via Campesina outlined a “food sovereignty” framework at the 1996 World Food Summit. Since that time, the broader food sovereignty movement continues to accelerate, drawing renewed attention as the escalating climate crisis and global pandemic lay bare the corporate food system’s production of environmental and racial injustices. Despite its institutionalization in a growing number of academic food studies programs, however, food sovereignty’s theorization and praxis continue to be shaped in contexts typically absent of Indigenous voices. This is a starkly ironic reality considering that corporate food systems in settler-colonial societies like Canada and the United States are enabled by the ongoing hoarding of Indigenous ecological resources. . . .
Highlights
Review of Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases, and Conversations, edited by Priscilla Settee and Shailesh Shukla. (2020)
Indigenous food sovereignty, in short, attempts to reconnect the social, cultural, spiritual, and ecological relationships that were severed by settler colonialism in order to achieve Indigenous well-being, an outcome attainable only if Canada’s Indigenous communities have unimpeded access to their traditional lands and waters
Dawson (Chapter 5) distinguishes the idea of Indigenous well-being from the Eurocentric conceptualization of health focused on individual “nutrition,” as evinced by Canada’s official Food Guide
Summary
Review of Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases, and Conversations, edited by Priscilla Settee and Shailesh Shukla. (2020). Review of Indigenous Food Systems: Concepts, Cases, and Conversations, edited by Priscilla Settee and Shailesh Shukla.
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