PHILOS 2G03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Food Security, Settler Colonialism
7 Jun 2019
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Environmental injustice in indigenous communities has a distinct form: namely, environmental injustice impacts food systems and self-determination. Environmental injustice properly understood is also food injustice. Timnick chair in the humanities at michigan state university. Environmental injustice: the grave moral problem of how environmental hazards -- from dirty water to air pollution -- tend to burden already vulnerable populations, including people of colour, women, poor people, and people with disabilities. A form of structural injustice involving "institutional arrangements that work systematically to inflict hazards on and deny goods (e. g. clean air, green spaces, etc. ) to certain populations. Social justice movement responding to food insecurity, demanding access to safe, nutritious, and culturally appropriate foods. Framed by environmental justice, seeks to fight correlated environmental burdens, food-related harms, and social marginalization. For many indigenous peoples, "environment" and land is a food system. Settler colonialism, whyte argues, imposes and disrupts relationships with land.
