Search Results for food sovereignty

... grounds as a land commons that produce food sovereignty and communal identity. Then he represents the Jamaican Maroons’ local ecological knowledge as a source of resistance to plantation economies. Using Sylvia Wynter’s environmental theories of resistance, this essay argues that Wedderburn’s political...

... colonial logic and national imaginaries and offering new modes of belonging. Shedding light on their food practices aids in expanding conversations about food sovereignty in Puerto Rico. Moreover, their cooking and sharing serve as an invitation to explore exchange and solidarity economies as foundations...

... Comida : Pushing the Borders of Food, Culture, and Politics (What Maria Exposed to Us),” Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development 9, no. 1 (2019): 10, 9. 8 See Garriga-López, “The Future in Question.” 9 Amy Trauger, “Toward a Political Geography of Food Sovereignty...

... to ward off the Navy’s eviction can be heard echoed today in la Colmena Cimarrona’s mutual aid farming project that seeks food sovereignty. What is singular about Santiago Muñoz’s cinema is its ability to present the palimpsest nature of nature as a continuity of modalities of invasion/control. 30...

... of postcolonial sovereignty, this essay considers how climate crisis demands a refusal of the state form as the limit to a regional political horizon and a rejection of nationalist historiography as a basis for the project of Caribbean criticism. Copyright © 2020 by Small Axe, Inc. 2020 climate change...

..., to protests over food prices in Haiti, university strikes in Puerto Rico, demonstrations against rising electricity costs in Guyana, and rallies against tax hikes and the privatization of education in the Dominican Republic—these movements suggest that political sovereignty is neither the safeguard nor...

... as quests for a more empowering citizenship and may be read as continuities of earlier traditions of resistance to the duress of colonial and postcolonial state sovereignty, inflicted on Quashees then but on dancehall artists now. Present embodied Jamaican cultural acts might in some ways, therefore...

... kind of politics may be emerging in the region, one that decouples the idea of freedom from the idea of national independence and territorial sovereignty. This new political possibility is rooted in what Beckett calls the politics of disjuncture, that is, in the political action that emerges from...

..., modernization, for grounding the questions: How on earth did we get here? And what is to be done? HEUA ’s goal gestures toward a decolonized sovereignty of the individual, but one tethered to that of the collective social, given Rodney’s investment in a socialism that worked in the interests of the social...

...: Sovereign Power and Bare Life and State of Exception are exem- plary philosophical and political treatises that attempt to explain the relationship between the logic of sovereignty, the political relation of exclusion, and the juridico-legal instantiation of the biopolitical paradigm of the camp...

... as the deployment of a range of surveillance assemblages. But even more than a feeling, Maroon insecurity might be said to describe an experience of precarity. This might be related, for instance, to various Maroon experiences of land insecurity and food insecurity and the creative practices that these necessitated...

... to burn down her conjugal home after a fight with her husband became violent. 93 One young girl tried to burn her school down in protest of being boarded there by her father. 94 In summer, the most difficult months in terms of food, several Port-au-Prince women died by suicide through self...

... and roadblocks to shut down the country—seemed unbounded in its effects. People called it peyi lòk (blocked country). Nothing was happening. There was little to no energy in the city. Stores and schools were shuttered. Roads closed. Hospitals reported dwindling supplies. Food, basic household goods, and just...

...Rachel Goffe This essay was originally drafted for a twenty-year retrospective on Charles Carnegie’s Postnationalism Prefigured (2002). Reflecting on her own ethnographic research, the author takes up two of the book’s insights. The first unsettles national sovereignty as an essentializing horizon...

..., Rupert Gray illuminates concerns about sovereignty and surveillance in our present. Only a generous or conservative reckoning of political genealogy would place Rupert Gray alongside colonial subjects pondering the meaning of independence in the mid-twentieth century, such is the earlier period...

... postcolonial narratives of sovereignty. 19 It opens up a space to reconsider and potentially restore the roles that Indigenous cultural practices may have played in shaping contemporary sexual practices, intertwined with West African principles and Western identity-focused terminology. By embracing...

....” Livity describes the foods we eat, our customs, our dress, one's existence among a collective within an anti-market-driven economy, rituals, and philosophy. The philosophy of livity grounds a person's disposition to politics and the political. The Bobo Shanti examine the past, weighing the rhetorical...

... as an activity designed to produce effects of rule.” It comprises “complexes of knowledge/power that give shape to projects of political sovereignty.” 9 Swinton’s journal, read alongside documents from the official archive of indentureship, reveals how colonial knowledge systems were leveraged to manage...

... attentive to the inequalities within societies and the ways those domestic dynamics interact and interface with a global economic order. The account of political formations and African sovereignty in the period before extensive contact with Europeans and the ways these formations interact with European...

... of nonsustainable crops such as sugar and tobacco for external markets. The provision grounds, with their diverse intercropping of indigenous and African cultivars, are understood as the often unseen but no less integral voluntary cultivation of subsistence foods such as yams, cassava, and sweet potatoes...