Indigeneity, Sustainability and Resistance in Food Politics

This course explores Western and Indigenous understandings of food security/sovereignty, with particular attention to the politics of food and sustainability. In this course, we will study food security from its origins, policy making, to current debates about alternative Indigenous food systems, drawing on many examples and using New Zealand, Peru, and the U.S.A as case studies. The course intends to ground discussion about the contemporary context of food security, including debates over the existing food regimes (neoliberal and capitalism), agrarian/food sovereignty movements, and implications of the right to food from both human and cultural right perspectives.