Creating learning alliances for flourishing food environmental futures
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https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v12i2.709Keywords:
Food justice, immigration, Indigenous knowledge, learning alliances, placemakingAbstract
This article emerged from a community-based symposium held in a public library, aimed at synthesizing reflections on the connections between climate actions, food security, and (im)migration. The authors, representing diverse positionalities and professional backgrounds explore the generative entanglements offered through food justice discourses and land-based pedagogies. Through channelling personal and professional experiences and disciplinary expertise, we sought to open up intersectional imaginaries of food and environmental justice, while actively seeking spaces for learning alliances. Emergent themes include challenging the settled imagination of integration in a community and on the land, finding ways of healing and placemaking through attending to the soil, plants, and other more-than-human beings that support collective well-being, and affirming the emancipatory potential of art-based learning entangled with land-based pedagogies. In foregrounding these voices, the article contributes to the ongoing efforts to support pluralistic forms of knowing and being, through exploring trajectories of transformative educational experiences centering food/environmental justice.
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