Food sovereignty as decolonization: some contributions from Indigenous movements to food system and development politics

摘要: The popularity of ‘food sovereignty’ to cover a range positions, interventions, and struggles within the food system is testament, above all, term’s adaptability. Food sovereignty centrally, though not exclusively, about groups people making their own decisions system—it way talking theoretically-informed systems practice. Since are different, we should expect be different in contexts, albeit consonant with core set principles (including women’s rights, shared opposition genetically modified crops, demand for agriculture removed from current international trade agreements). In this paper look at analytical points friction applying ideas context Indigenous North America. This, argue, helps clarify one central themes sovereignty: that it continuation anti-colonial struggles, even post-colonial contexts. Such an examination has dividends both scholars those politics: by helping problematize notions postcoloniality, but also posing pointed questions around gender struggles.