Indigenous Food Security

3 credits · Undergraduate

(3 hrs Lecture) Community food security provides a rich diversity of self-organized food systems to improve, maintain and enhance health, well-being, resilience and ecological sustainability, originated and nurtured by Indigenous and other marginalized communities. By examining Canadian and international case studies as well as empirical research on Indigenous voices, knowledges and perspectives on their own food systems, this course critically engages students with the concepts, approaches, practices and challenges of Indigenous food production, consumption and distribution and their role in achieving community food security. Restrictions: Honours Form Required. IS-4028 (3 or 6) Human and Indigenous Rights in Latin America (3 hrs Seminar/Discussion) Indigenous nationalities and other marginalized minority groups in Latin America have developed innovative strategies, alliances and forms of political participation to achieve recognition of their rights and to contribute to new political configurations in the region. This course studies the dynamic situation of Indigenous and human rights and social conflicts in Latin America. Topics included contested definitions of individual and collective rights, responses to human rights abuses, and intersections between human rights frameworks and related peacebuilding processes. A country or sub-region may be selected for an in-depth case study, and may vary in different times that the course is offered. Cross-listed: HR-4210(3). Restrictions: Honours Form Required. Department Permission Required. Students may not hold credit for this course and HR-4210. Requisite Courses: HR-2100 and HR-2200, or the former HRGS-2101, or the former POL-2101 or permission of the department [prerequisite(s)].