Postcolonialism, Indigeneity and Struggles for Food Sovereignty - Alternative Food Networks in Subaltern Spaces

List of contents

Foreword by Melissa L. Caldwell

Introduction: sovereign food spaces? Openings and closures Marisa Wilson

1 Rethinking ‘alternative’: Māori and food sovereignty in Aotearoa New Zealand Carolyn Morris and Stephen Fitzherbert

2 Indigenous foodways in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: an alternative-additional food network H M Ashraf Ali and Helen Vallianatos

3 Justice for the salmon: indigenous ways of life as a critical resource in envisioning alternative futures Sophia Woodman and Charles R. Menzies

4 Food sovereignty, permaculture and the postcolonial politics of knowledge in El Salvador Naomi Millner

5 Possibilities for alternative peasant trajectories through gendered food practices in the Office du Niger Nicolette Larder

6 Local food, imported food, and the failures of community gardening initiatives in Nauru Amy K. Mclennan

7 Cuban exceptionalism? A genealogy of postcolonial food networks in the Caribbean Marisa Wilson

Afterword Peter Jackson

About the author

Marisa Wilson is Chancellor’s Fellow in the Institute of Geography, School of GeoSciences at the University of Edinburgh, UK.

Summary

This book provides theoretically-informed and empirically-rich accounts of the ways in which formerly-colonialised peoples conceptualise and practice alternatives food networks. It explores whether and how alternatives to globalizing industrial food networks can even exist in countries and regions long characterised by externally-led form

Product details

• Authors: Marisa Wilson
• Assisted by: Marisa Wilson (Editor), Wilson Marisa (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367668099
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66809-9
• No. of pages: 188
• Series: Routledge Research on Decoloniality and New Postcolonialisms
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Geography, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography, Food security & supply, Human Geography, Manufacturing industries, Agriculture & Related Industries, Agribusiness and primary industries, Food Manufacturing & Related Industries, Food security and supply, Global South / Developing countries