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Food Sovereignty, Justice, and Indigenous Peoples

Whyte, Kyle Powys·2018·Oxford Handbooks Online

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Indigenous peoples often claim that colonial powers, such as settler states, violate Indigenous peoples’ collective self-determination over their food systems, or food sovereignty. Violations of food sovereignty are often food injustices. Yet Indigenous peoples claim that one of the solutions to protecting food sovereignty involves the conservation of particular foods, from salmon to wild rice. This chapter advances an argument that claims of this kind advance particular theories of food sovereignty and food injustice that are not actually grounded in static conceptions of Indigenous cultures; instead, such claims offer important contributions for understanding how settler colonial domination is a form of injustice that undermines key relationships that support Indigenous collective self-determination as an adaptive capacity.

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Authors: Whyte, K. P.
Affiliations: Michigan State University (US)
Corresponding author: Whyte, Kyle Powys
ORCID: Whyte, Kyle Powys
Venue: Oxford Handbooks Online
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-01-11
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199372263.013.34
OpenAlex: W2895017103
Semantic Scholar: 3d78acf19dff579e64a5fde159244b9ff4fd2f1e
Cited by: 75
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 5 · 2025: 10 · 2024: 11 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 2 · 2019: 1
FWCI: 6.10
Type: book
Language: en
Open access: closed
Locations: Oxford University Press eBooks (publishedVersion)
Topics: Social Sciences › Law › Indigenous Peoples' Rights and Law
Social Sciences › Development › Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development
Social Sciences › Health › Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights
Keywords: food sovereignty, food justice, indigenous peoples, settler colonialism, collective self-determination, Indigenous food systems, food preservation, salmon, wild rice, adaptive capacity, indigenous culture

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