Medicine Food: Critical Environmental Justice Studies, Native North American Literature, and the Movement for Food Sovereignty

Adamson, Joni

doi:10.1089/env.2010.0035

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“…Furthermore, when applied to wild foods, 2 a justice perspective recognizes the fundamental ways that diverse cultural identities and social relations are embedded in gathering practices. This observation is particularly significant in socio-economically diverse cities, in areas with colonial histories of indigenous displacement and trauma, and where indigenous and other longstanding livelihoodbased users seek access to natural resources to support cultural revitalization and a deeply historic struggle for food sovereignty (Adamson 2011;Cardinal 2006;Middleton 2010;Salmón 2012;Wilkinson 2000).…”

Section: Food Justice and Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Forest Justice and the Rights to Wild Foods, Medicines, and Materials in the City

Poe¹,

et al. 2013

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Urban forests are multifunctional socio-ecological landscapes, yet some of their social benefits remain poorly understood. This paper draws on ethnographic evidence from Seattle, Washington to demonstrate that urban forests contain nontimber forest products that contribute a variety of wild foods, medicines, and materials for the wellbeing of urban residents. We show that gathering wild plants and fungi in urban forests is a persistent subsistence and livelihood practice that provides sociocultural and material benefits to city residents, and creates opportunities for connecting with nature and enhancing social ties. We suggest that an orientation toward human-nature interactions in cities that conceptualizes the gathering of forest products as a legitimate social benefit may support and expand urban forest justice. Urban forest justice recognizes the rights of local people to have control over their own culturally appropriate wild food and health systems, including access to natural resources and to the decision-making processes affecting them. Keywords Urban foraging. Forest justice. Urban ecosystems. NTFPs. Social benefits 1 We use the definition provided by the 1978 U.S. Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act, which defines urban forests as "trees and associated plants, individually, in small groups, or under forest conditions within cities, their suburbs, and towns." Following this definition, urban forests include all trees, associated understory vegetation, and fungi in urban areas on private and public land. This definition also includes trees and other plants historically or ornamentally cultivated, which may be found in diverse spaces such as natural areas, street edges, parks, and vacant lots.

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Section: Food Justice and Sovereigntymentioning

confidence: 99%

Urban Forest Justice and the Rights to Wild Foods, Medicines, and Materials in the City

Poe¹,

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“…Culturally significant plants and animals play an important role in tribal health (Adamson 2011; Lynn et al 2013), again demonstrating cultural definitions at odds with mainstream health indicators. “First foods” in Native America, for example, represent not only sustenance, but also a source of spirituality and mental health.…”

Section: Unique Dimensions Of Native American Ejmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…“First foods” in Native America, for example, represent not only sustenance, but also a source of spirituality and mental health. “First foods” is a concept used synonymously with traditional foods, but specifically represents foods considered unpolluted, fresh, culturally meaningful, and accessible on Native lands (Adamson 2011). Thus some researchers argue that efforts to keep “first foods” pure are not political statements, but statements of a desire to ensure healthy populations (Adamson 2011).…”

Section: Unique Dimensions Of Native American Ejmentioning

confidence: 99%

Native Americans: Where in Environmental Justice Research?

Vickery

Hunter

2015

Society & Natural Resources

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While the last two decades have seen important theoretical, empirical, and policy advancements in environmental justice generally, much remains to be done regarding Native Americans. Unique political and cultural dynamics shape the study and pursuit of environmental justice (EJ) in Native American communities. This review summarizes Native American EJ issues based on a cross-disciplinary search of over 60 publications. In so doing, we discuss the unique nature of Native American EJ in terms of conducting research and working toward reducing the continuation of historical trauma associated with environmental ills, the types of strategies used in Native American EJ research, and issues of Native American climate justice. We conclude with discussion of remaining knowledge gaps and future research needs.

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“…“First generation” EJ scholarship documents and analyzes this early movement. Pellow (2018) recently synthesized a newer wave of research—“Critical EJ”—that extends analysis in four key ways (building on Adamson, 2011; Holifield et al., 2009). First, Pellow argues, scholars are now extending Walker’s (2009) argument for enlarging notions of justice beyond distributive and juridical frames, to encompass procedural and other forms of justice.…”

Section: Critical Ejmentioning

confidence: 99%

Intersecting hazards, intersectional identities: A baseline Critical Environmental Justice analysis of US homelessness

Goodling

2019

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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Lacking access to stable shelter, infrastructure, and services, houseless people are exposed to a range of environmental hazards. Yet, environmental justice scholars have only begun to consider how environmental justice issues impact unsheltered people. In dialogue with Critical Environmental Justice Studies and geographies of homelessness research, and drawing on seven years of participant observation and a national phone survey of 47 houseless community representatives, this paper begins to chart a baseline Critical Environmental Justice analysis of homelessness. I argue that understanding the environmental justice experiences of houseless people requires attention not only to direct exposure to hazards, but also to criminalization. Police sweeps in downtown and residential areas push people into toxic spaces; when houseless communities express concerns, they risk further eviction. In this way, cities overwhelmingly respond to hazard exposure with displacement, creating a cycle of criminalization, dangerous living conditions, and serial forced removals. Moreover, examining such intersecting hazards and their impacts through a Black feminist lens of intersectionality reveals how systemic violence vis-à-vis environmental hazards is multiplied and magnified for houseless people along lines of race, gender, age, disability status, and so on. By bringing Critical Environmental Justice and geographies of homelessness into conversation, with particular attention to intersectional impacts, scholars and organizers can better attend to the complex suite of issues that differentially shape the lives of houseless people and inspire resistance.

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Medicine Food: Critical Environmental Justice Studies, Native North American Literature, and the Movement for Food Sovereignty

Cited by 27 publications

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Urban Forest Justice and the Rights to Wild Foods, Medicines, and Materials in the City

Urban Forest Justice and the Rights to Wild Foods, Medicines, and Materials in the City

Native Americans: Where in Environmental Justice Research?

Intersecting hazards, intersectional identities: A baseline Critical Environmental Justice analysis of US homelessness

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