Description

• Title:
  Transnationalism as a Decolonizing Strategy? ‘Trans-Indigenism’ and Native American Food Sovereignty
• Creator:
  Kruk-Buchowska, Zuzanna
• Description:
  The aim of this paper is to analyze how Indigenous communities in the United States have been engaging in trans-Indigenous cooperation in their struggle for food sovereignty. I will look at inter-tribal conferences regarding food sovereignty and farming, and specifically at the discourse of the Indigenous Farming Conference held in Maplelag at the White Earth Reservation in northern Minnesota. I will show how it: (1) creates a space for Indigenous knowledge production and validation, using Indigenous methods (e.g., storytelling), without the need to adhere to Western scientific paradigms; (2) recovers pre-colonial maps and routes distorted by the formation of nation states; and (3) fosters novel sites for trans-indigenous cooperation and approaches to law, helping create a common front in the fight with neoliberal agribusiness and government. In my analysis, I will use Chadwick Allen’s (2014) concept of ‘trans-indigenism’ to demonstrate how decolonizing strategies are used by the Native American food sovereignty movement to achieve their goals.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2018 Zuzanna Kruk-Buchowska
• Date:
  2018.12.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Peer-reviewed articles
• Language:
  English;
  eng
• Source:
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Vol. 53 No. s1 (2018): Special issue on Native American indigenous studies; 413-423;
  Studia Anglica Posnaniensia; Tom 53 Nr s1 (2018): Special issue on Native American indigenous studies; 413-423;
  2082-5102;
  0081-6272
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2018-0020/28957
• Subject:
  Native American food sovereignty;
  Indigenous farming;
  trans-indigenism;
  transnationalism;
  cultural resistance
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/stap/article/view/stap-2018-0020
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
• Can I use it?:
  seek permission
• Type:
  other