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Settler Colonial Nature in the Everglades
Americans live in a settler colonial society, and this shapes how we understand and engage nature. In the vast expanse of slow-flowing water and drained agricultural lands known as the Florida Everglades, thinking about settler colonialism helps make sense of Burmese python hunts and Seminole water rights, of scientific restoration models and National Park policies. Doing so informs my own ethnographic research on the relationship between peoples’ sense of belonging and the ways that they value water in the Everglades. Continue reading
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Tagged colonialism, conservation, development, engagement, Florida Everglades, indigenous people, inequality, socio-environmental justice, United States
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The Lores of Local Food: Different Ways of Being Local and Eating Locally
Throughout the course of my research, I’ve seen how there is no one way to eat locally or to farm sustainably. These concepts and practices are quite fluid and change based on context, but also with the flash of a dollar sign. The “Loca-vore” movement is but one incarnation of many efforts to (re)connect to land and food, to foster food autonomy, to check out of the ConAgra-Monsanto complex, or to profit off of well-intentioned consumers’ desires to be more responsible or ecological with their purchases. Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, california, engagement, food, inequality, loca-vore movement, socio-environmental justice, United States, US West
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