Going Public with Notes on Close Cousins, Food Sovereignty, and Dignity

McMichael, Philip; Porter, Christine

doi:10.5304/jafscd.2018.08a.015

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“…3). This vision of food sovereignty also includes gender, labor, and Indigenous rights (McMichael & Porter, 2018). Though such a universal rights-based perspective does not draw on Indigenous worldviews of collective wellbeing and connections to the environment, liberatory power transfers in food systems are essential to food sovereignty, including in Indigenous contexts (Carney, 2012;Coté, 2016;Kamal, Linklater, Thompson, Dipple, & Ithinito Mechisowin Committee, 2015;Patel, 2009).…”

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“…Growing Resilience originated conceptually in 2011 when the Indigenous-led, WRR community organization Blue Mountain Associates participated as one of five community-based organizations in the Food Dignity project. Food Dignity was a CBPR project that investigated and supported how community-based organizations across the country work toward food justice (Porter, Woodsum, & Hargraves, 2018;Sutter, 2018) and its "close cousin," food sovereignty (McMichael & Porter, 2018). Blue Mountain Associates found that community interest in food gardening exceeded their resources to support new gardens.…”

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Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home Gardening

Budowle¹,

Arthur²,

Porter³

2019

J. Agric. Food Syst. Community Dev.

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As a community-based participatory research project designed to promote health and wellbeing, Growing Resilience supports home gardens for 96 primarily Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho families in the Wind River Reservation, located in Wyoming. Through analysis of data from two years of qualitative fieldwork, including stories told by 53 gardeners and members of the project's community advisory board in talking circles and through our novel sovereign storytelling method, we a * Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development ISSN: 2152-0801 online https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org 146Volume 9, Supplement 2 / Fall 2019 investigated if and how these participants employ relationships, knowledge, and practices across generations through home gardening. We find that participants describe home gardening within present, past, future, and cross-generational frames, rooted in family relationships and knowledge shared across generations. Our analysis of these themes suggests that gardening provides families a means to transmit resilience across generations or, as we call it here, intergenerational resilience. We conclude by discussing intergenerational resilience as a culturally specific mechanism of social-ecological community resilience that may be particularly relevant in Indigenous movements for food sovereignty.

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Growing Intergenerational Resilience for Indigenous Food Sovereignty through Home Gardening

Budowle¹,

Arthur²,

Porter³

2019

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“…The other was the finding that "most mobile market organizations do not operate from a food justice perspective, but instead, operate from a food availability perspective" (p. 148). As an American, I confess I have food movement envy of the MST and Via Campesina, and the seats they have secured for food sovereignty leadership at UN FAO tables in Rome (McMichael & Porter, 2018). I do also worry about the nonradical discourses common in community food work in the U.S. (see, e.g., "the type of political action recommended by US organizations is certainly tame compared to that undertaken by some of their international counterpart-I could not find a single call to commit civil disobedience" [Fairbairn, 2012, p. 224]).…”

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Gritty Philosophical Thinking about Food Justice Doing

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2018

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“…The next paper, "What Gardens Grow: Outcomes from Home and Community Gardens Supported by Community-based Food Justice Organizations," examines multiple forms of positive outcomes (Porter, 2018b). The commentary closing that section, "Going Public with Notes on Close Cousins, Food Sovereignty, and Dignity," situates the work of these five communities and of our collaboration in the context of international movements for food sovereignty (McMichael with Porter, 2018).…”

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