The Creativity of Everyday Life in Crafting Resilient Food Systems: a Framework and Case from the Atlantic Forest Coast of Brazil

Soberanía alimentaria desde el territorio: aprovisionamiento, prácticas cotidianas y el papel de las mujeres afrocolombianas en el mantenimiento de sistemas alimentarios (Traducción)

“…Teniendo en cuenta la creatividad cotidiana, las acciones y tácticas que las personas emplean para asegurar su supervivencia y analizando cómo ellas construyen sistemas alimentarios resilientes y vidas deseables, también se pueden identificar estrategias que escapan a la arquitectura de control del régimen alimentario neoliberal (Davidson-Hunt, et al 2017;Figueroa, 2015;Lewis, 2016;Robbins, 2015;van der Ploeg, 2018). Por ejemplo, el trabajo de Lewis (2016) sobre la cocina doméstica de las mujeres en Sudáfrica demuestra que, si bien estas responsabilidades son generalmente parte de los roles sociales prescritos para las mujeres, los cuales subordinan su labor reproductiva dentro de estructuras capitalistas y patriarcales, algunas mujeres encuentran que estas prácticas cotidianas pueden proporcionar espacios de agencia creativa, satisfacción, autoridad e influencia dentro del hogar, así como dentro de esferas sociales más amplias determinando deseos, emociones y relaciones.…”

Food sovereignty, gender and everyday practice: the role of Afro-Colombian women in sustaining localised food systems

“…Looking at the everyday creativity, actions and tactics people employ to ensure their survival, and analysing how they craft resilient food systems while pursuing lives they value, may also point to gaps in the architecture of control exercised by the neoliberal food regime (Figueroa 2015;Robbins 2015;Lewis 2016;Davidson-Hunt, Idrobo, and Turner 2017;van der Ploeg 2018). Lewis's (2016) examination of women's domestic cooking in South Africa, for example, finds that while these responsibilities are usually part of women's prescribed social roles and thus are part of the subordination of women's reproductive labour within capitalism and patriarchal structures, some women find that these quotidian practices can provide spaces of creative agency, pleasure, authority and influence within the household, as well as within wider social spheres by shaping desires, sensibilities and relationships.…”

“…In Sivirú and other rural coastal communities where in-situ opportunities to earn cash income are irregular and limited, maintaining access to food through non-capitalist market economies can be a vital component of one's livelihood and a significant factor in the degree of autonomy over everyday and major life decisions one has, including where and how to live (Davidson-Hunt, Idrobo, and Turner 2017). The significance of the choice to stay in one's home territory should be understood within the regional context (Idrobo and Johnson 2020).…”

Biocultural Diversity, Campesino Kitchens, and Globalization: Ethnobiological Perspectives on Dietary Change in Southern Bolivia

“…In spite of a growing scholarship invoking a processual approach attuned to history, structure, and local agency (e.g., Davidson-Hunt 2006; Davidson-Hunt et al 2017; Fernández-Llamazares and Reyes-García 2016; Heckler 2009; Idrobo 2014; Zent 2013), processes of change continue to be peripheral in some research. Nabhan and colleagues (2011: 2) note that, despite critiques, much ethnobiology scholarship has “side-stepped the examination of the political, economic, cross-cultural and media-driven ‘external’ pressures which have affected not only the natural resources [under study] themselves, but the cultural perceptions and uses of them.” Interestingly, of the nine research topics associated with gastronomic ethnobiology described by Pieroni and colleagues (2016), only work on the nutrition transition in migrant and diasporic populations deals explicitly with dietary change processes.…”