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Academic articles

Unraveling the colonialities of climate change and action

Introduction to the special section on "The colonialities of climate change and action," where authors provide a conceptual mapping to engage critically with existing approaches to thinking and acting in the context of climate change.

19
Mar

From the ground up: Exploring the potential contribution of citizens' assemblies in radical food-system transformation

By: Inea Lehner, Samira Amos, Philippe Mathys, and Johanna Jacobi

19
Feb

Domesticating neoliberal foodscapes: An everyday approach to understanding food system transitions in Oaxaca, Mexico

By: Aisha Ismail

14
Feb

Movement without a movement: Food self-provisioning in Eastern Europe and the Balkans as emergent transformation towards a degrowth mode of living

By: Mladen Domazet and Rowan Lubbock

6
Feb

Traditional foodways of the Amadiba: A struggle for indigenous food sovereignty in Mpondoland, South Africa

By: Brittany Kesselman and Sinegugu Zukulu

Activist contributions

Visual essay

Chop it like it’s hot: community composting for a post-growth society

Food systems must undergo radical changes for a post-growth world. This transformation cannot solely focus on agricultural production; it requires a concomitant shift of food waste systems. One movement currently spurring transformation in food waste is community composting. In this visual essay, we provide an overview of community composting in the U.S., zooming into a […]

How colonialism disrupted and continues to disrupt people’s relationship with plants

Our graphic grew out of a project called ‘Decolonising food for health and sustainability' in Johannesburg, South Africa. The project recognised that being able to grow the indigenous plants that people traditionally used for food and medicine could help communities to enjoy greater food sovereignty and more control over their own health. The graphic seeks to tell the complex story of the historical and ongoing negative impacts of colonialism in a simple and powerful way. The accompanying text explains some of the ways colonialism disrupted Indigenous people’s relationship with plants, and how these processes and power relations continue to underpin South Africa’s unhealthy and unsustainable food system.

Identidad, tradición oral y cosmovisión basada en el ecosistema en Perú: reflexiones estéticas desde el surrealismo

ABSTRACT Reconociendo la riqueza de la tradicional oral Peruana y su interrelación con la biodiversidad, se realizan en diferentes regiones del Perú actividades culturales para su preservación. Se promueven expresiones artísticas mediante ferias como la Ruraq Maky, una feria que acoge artesanos y el arte popular de varias regiones del Perú. Otro ejemplo de cultura […]

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The artwork on our home page is by Angie Vanessita, an Ecuadorian artist whose art is inspired by the work of indigenous, afrodescendent, campesino and rural communities who defend their territories against the advance of capitalist extractivism. To discover more of her art we invite you to visit her website. We chose her piece Noche […]