SOC 808 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Nutritionism, Food Sovereignty, Food Security
Document Summary
Towards a critical indigenous perspective on food and health. Good food is about just, healthy, and sustainable food systems. Indigenous communities disproportionately experience food insecurity highest in the world amongst inuits. Indigenous peoples of canada (inuit, metis, first nations) live in communities characterized by high rates of chronic & infectious disease, obesity, and hunger. Causes of food insecurity: colonialism, environmental dispossession, economic transitions and poverty, changing demographics, and logistical challenges. (cid:498)alternatives(cid:499) to market foods - local and traditional foods. Barriers to traditional foods: cost, knowledge, ongoing colonialism, racialization, nutritionism: contextual factors that are by-products of development (technology, unemployment, systematic exclusion of indigenous peoples in discussions about food. Nutritionism: valorizes scientific and profit-driven understandings of food to the exclusion of the culture and context-specific knowledge that has characterized food and eating forever: particularly deleterious for indigenous communities - alarming increases & availability of. Indigenous people are nutrition experts - hold significant knowledge about traditional foods &
