Unsettling Settler Food Movements

Food Sovereignty and Decolonization in Canada

Bibliographic Data

ID4997834
AuthorsZoe Matties (corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume7
Issue2
Publication date2016-12-22
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCuizine The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1918-5480 • E-ISSN: 1918-5480
PublisherConsortium Erudit (PUBLISHER • CA)
DOI10.7202/1038478ar
OpenAlexW2584080487
LanguageEN
Citations received10

This article examines the connections between agriculture, alternative food movements, and settler colonialism. In particular I examine how settler agriculture and control of food throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been used as a tool of colonization, and how food sovereignty offers a corrective to the imposition of Western, colonial, gendered, and racialized foodways. I also explore Indigenous food sovereignty in North America as a model that honors and reclaims Indigenous foodways and self-determination, and addresses the alarming rates of food insecurity and diet-related health issues among Indigenous populations. Following in the footsteps of feminist and decolonial scholars, I seek to critically analyse the discourses of alternative food movements to discover how alternative food movements can transform the colonial system rather than unconsciously perpetuate it. I argue that as settlers working to create equitable and sustainable food systems we must recognize complicity in colonialism, engage Indigenous perspectives and narratives, and work to support Indigenous communities seeking Indigenous food sovereignty and self-determination. To do so requires creating alliances based on learning about our differences from and with each other, and embracing settler discomfort as a motivation for change

Agriculture · Archaeology · Colonialism · Decolonization · Environmental ethics · Food security · Food sovereignty · Food studies · Food systems · Foodways · Indigenous · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Sovereignty · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · History · Indigenous Studies and Ecology · Law · Ecology

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