Resources
A collection of texts, articles, and media that inform my research, teaching, and collaborations. These resources span critical pedagogy, decolonial methods, agroecology, and food sovereignty.
A Few Foundational Texts
Freire, Paulo (1970). Pedagogy of the Oppressed
hooks, bell (1994). Teaching to Transgress
Smith, Linda Tuhiwai (2012). Decolonizing Methodologies
Wilson, Shawn (2008). Research Is Ceremony
Tuck, Eve & Yang, K. Wayne (2012). Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor
Decolonial & Anti-Colonial Methods
Carlson, E. (2017). Anti-colonial methodologies and practices for settler colonial studies. Settler Colonial Studies, 7(4), 496–517.
https://doi.org/10.1080/2201473X.2016.1241213Daigle, M., & Sundberg, J. (2017). From where we stand: Unsettling geographical knowledges in the classroom. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 42(3), 338–341.
https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12201Dhamoon, R. (2015). A feminist approach to decolonizing anti-racism: Rethinking transnationalism, intersectionality, and settler colonialism. Feral Feminisms, 4, 20–37.
Gaztambide-Fernández, R. (2012). Decolonization and the pedagogy of solidarity. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 41–67.
Luby, B., Mehltretter, S., Flewelling, R., Lehman, M., Goldhar, G., Pattrick, E., Mariotti, J., Bradford, A., & Naongashiing Anishinaabek. (2021). Beyond institutional ethics: Anishinaabe worldviews and the development of a culturally sensitive field protocol for aquatic plant research. Water, 13(5).
https://doi.org/10.3390/w13050709Nakata, N. M., Nakata, V., Keech, S., & Bolt, R. (2012). Decolonial goals and pedagogies for Indigenous studies. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 120–140.
Peltier, C. (2018). An application of Two-Eyed Seeing: Indigenous research methods with participatory action research. International Journal of Qualitative Methods, 17(1), 1–12.
https://doi.org/10.1177/1609406918812346Whetung, M. (2019). (En)gendering shoreline law: Nishnaabeg relational politics along the Trent Severn Waterway. Global Environmental Politics, 19(3), 16–32.
https://doi.org/10.1162/glep_a_00513Windchief, S., & San Pedro, T. (2019). Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with People. Routledge.
Agroecology & Food Studies: Some Places to Start
Canadian Food Studies — http://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs
Food First — https://foodfirst.org/
Altieri, M. (1995). Agroecology. Westview Press.
Alkon, Alison Hope, and Julian Agyeman, eds. (2011). Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability. MIT Press.
Avakian, A. V., & Haber, B. (2005). From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies. University of Massachusetts Press
Koç, M., Sumner, J., & Winson, A. (2012). Critical Perspectives in Food Studies. Toronto Metropolitan University.
Lappé, Frances Moore. World Hunger: Ten Myths. Food First
Koch, Shelley. (2018). Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System. Rowman & Littlefield.
Wittman, Hannah, Annette Aurélie Desmarais, and Nettie Wiebe, eds. (2010). Food Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food, Nature & Community.
Holt-Giménez, Eric, and Raj Patel. (2009). Food Rebellions: Crisis and the Hunger for Justice.
Bernstein, H. (2015). “Food Regimes and Food Regime Analysis: A Selective Survey.” In Land Grabbing, Conflict and Agrarian-environmental Transformations: Perspectives from East and Southeast Asia, 1–38.
Friedmann, H. (1978). “World Market, State, and Family Farm: Social Bases of Household Production in the Era of Wage Labor.” Comparative Studies in Society and History, 20(4), 545–586.
Friedmann, H. (1982). “The Political Economy of Food: The Rise and Fall of the Postwar International Food Order.” American Journal of Sociology, 88.
Gonzalez de Molina, M. (2013). “Agroecology and Politics. How To Get Sustainability? About the Necessity for a Political Agroecology.” Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems, 37(1), 37–41. https://doi.org/10.1080/10440046.2012.705810
Rosset, P., & Martinez-Torres, M. E. (2013). “Food Sovereignty: A Critical Dialogue.” The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Strings, S. (2019). Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia. NYU Press.
Podcasts
RAIR Digital Dialogues — https://raircollective.squarespace.com/podcast
The Fridge Light (CBC) — https://www.cbc.ca/radio/thefridgelight
Racist Sandwich — http://www.racistsandwich.com
AnthroDish — https://anthrodish.com
Food Psych — https://christyharrison.com/foodpsych
Who Will Feed Us? — By the National Farmers Union
Scene on Radio — Seeing White series: https://www.sceneonradio.org/seeing-white/
For the Wild — https://forthewild.world/
Media Indigena — https://mediaindigena.com/podcast/
All My Relations — https://www.allmyrelationspodcast.com/
Food Sovereignty Reading List
Arcand, M. M., Bradford, L., Worme, D. F., Strickert, G. E. H., Bear, K., Dreaver Johnston, A. B., Wuttunee, S. M., Gamble, A., & Shewfelt, D. (2020). Sowing a way towards revitalizing Indigenous agriculture: Creating meaning from a forum discussion in Saskatchewan, Canada. Facets, 5(1), 619–641.
https://doi.org/10.1139/FACETS-2020-0004Cadieux, K. V., & Slocum, R. (2015). What does it mean to do food justice? Journal of Political Ecology, 22, 1–26.
Corntassel, J. (2012). Re-envisioning resurgence: Indigenous pathways to decolonization and sustainable self-determination. Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 86–101.
Coté, C. (2016). ‘Indigenizing’ food sovereignty: Revitalizing Indigenous food practices and ecological knowledges in Canada and the United States. Humanities, 5(3), 57.
http://www.mdpi.com/2076-0787/5/3/57Daigle, M. (2019). Tracing the terrain of Indigenous food sovereignties. Journal of Peasant Studies, 46(2), 1–19.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2017.1324423Desmarais, A. A., & Wittman, H. (2014). Farmers, foodies and First Nations: Getting to food sovereignty in Canada. Journal of Peasant Studies, 41, 1–23.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2013.876623Delormier, T., Horn-Miller, K., McComber, A. M., & Marquis, K. (2017). Reclaiming food security in the Mohawk community of Kahnawà:ke through Haudenosaunee responsibilities. Maternal and Child Nutrition, 13.
https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12556Figueroa-Helland, L., Thomas, C., & Aguilera, A. P. (2018). Decolonizing food systems: Food sovereignty, Indigenous revitalization, and agroecology as counter-hegemonic movements. Perspectives on Global Development and Technology, 17(1–2).
https://doi.org/10.1163/15691497-12341473Grey, S., & Patel, R. (2014). Food sovereignty as decolonization: Some contributions from Indigenous movements to food system and development politics. Agriculture and Human Values, 31, 431–444.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-014-9548-9Hill, K. X., Johnston, L. J., Blue, M. R., Probst, J., Staecker, M., & Jennings, L. L. (2024). Rematriation and climate justice: Intersections of Indigenous health and place. The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 18, 100314.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2024.100314Kepkiewicz, L., & Dale, B. (2018). Keeping ‘our’ land: Property, agriculture and tensions between Indigenous and settler visions of food sovereignty in Canada. Journal of Peasant Studies, 45(5–6), 941–962.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2018.1439929Kepkiewicz, L., & Rotz, S. (2018). Toward anti-colonial food policy in Canada? (Im)possibilities within the settler state. Canadian Food Studies, 5(2), 13–24.
Kerssen, T. M. (2015). Food sovereignty and the quinoa boom: Challenges to sustainable re-peasantisation in the southern Altiplano of Bolivia. Third World Quarterly, 36(3), 489–507.
https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2015.1002992Laforge, J. M. L., Dale, B., Levkoe, C. Z., & Ahmed, F. (2021). The future of agroecology in Canada: Embracing the politics of food sovereignty. Journal of Rural Studies, 81, 194–202.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2020.10.025Leblanc, J., & Burnett, K. (2023). What happened to Indigenous food sovereignty in Northern Ontario? In A Land Not Forgotten (pp. 16–33).
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780887555176-004Levkoe, C., Ray, L., & McLaughlin, J. (2019). The Indigenous Food Circle: Reconciliation and resurgence through food in Northwestern Ontario. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 9(B), 1–14.
https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2019.09b.008Li, T. M. (2014). Can there be food sovereignty here? Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(6), 1065–1088.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.938058Littlefield, C., Stollmeyer, M., Andrée, P., Ballamingie, P., & Levkoe, C. Z. (2024). Exploring settler–Indigenous engagement in food systems governance. Agriculture and Human Values.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-023-10534-3Martens, T., Cidro, J., Hart, M. A., & McLachlan, S. (2016). Understanding Indigenous food sovereignty through an Indigenous research paradigm. Journal of Indigenous Social Development, 5(1), 18–37.
Matties, Z. (2016). Unsettling settler food movements: Food sovereignty and decolonization in Canada. Cuizine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures, 7(2), 11.
https://doi.org/10.7202/1038478arMeyer, M. A. (2014). Hoea Ea: Land education and food sovereignty in Hawai‘i. Environmental Education Research, 20(1), 98–101.
https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2013.852656Morrison, D. (2011). Indigenous food sovereignty: A model for social learning. In Food Sovereignty in Canada.
Morrison, D. (2020). Reflections and realities: Expressions of food sovereignty in the Fourth World. In Indigenous Food Systems.
Priadka, P., Moses, B., Kozmik, C., Kell, S., & Popp, J. N. (2022). Impacts of harvested species declines on Indigenous Peoples’ food sovereignty, well-being and ways of life. Ecology and Society, 27(1).
https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12995-270130Price, M. J., Latta, A., Spring, A., Temmer, J., Johnston, C., Chicot, L., Jumbo, J., & Leishman, M. (2022). Agroecology in the North: Centering Indigenous food sovereignty and land stewardship in agriculture ‘frontiers’. Agriculture and Human Values, 39(4), 1191–1206.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-022-10312-7Raster, A., & Hill, C. G. (2017). The dispute over wild rice: Treaty agreements and Ojibwe food sovereignty. Agriculture and Human Values, 34(2), 267–281.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-016-9703-6Robin, T. (2019). Our hands at work: Indigenous food sovereignty in Western Canada. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 9(B), 1–15.
https://doi.org/10.5304/jafscd.2019.09b.007Robin, T., & Hart, M. A. (2025). Cree food knowledge and being well. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 22(2), 181.
https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph22020181Robin, T., Burnett, K., Parker, B., & Skinner, K. (2021). Safe food, dangerous lands? Traditional foods and Indigenous Peoples in Canada. Frontiers in Communication, 6, 1–9.
https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.749944Rotz, S., Xavier, A., & Robin, T. (2023). ‘It wasn’t built for us’: Indigenous food sovereignty in settler colonial food bureaucracies. Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 12(3), 1–18.
Rudolph, K. R., & McLachlan, S. M. (2013). Seeking Indigenous food sovereignty in northern Manitoba. Local Environment, 18(9), 1079–1098.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.754741Shattuck, A., Schiavoni, C. M., & VanGelder, Z. (2015). Translating the politics of food sovereignty. Globalizations, 12(4), 421–433.
https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2015.1041243Simpson, L. B. (2003). Toxic contamination undermining Indigenous food systems and sovereignty. Pimatziwin, 1(2), 130–134.
Stiegman, M., & Pictou, S. (2023). We story the land: Mi’kmaq food sovereignty, Indigenous law and treaty relations. Journal of Peasant Studies.
https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2223482Vandermale, E. A., Ross, P., & Mason, C. W. (2025). Indigenous youth involvement in land-based food systems in Fort Providence. Food and Foodways, 33(1), 28–51.
https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2025.2440972Wesche, S. D., O’Hare-Gordon, M. A. F., Robidoux, M. A., & Mason, C. W. (2016). Land-based programs in the Northwest Territories. Canadian Food Studies, 3(2), 23–48.
https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.161Whyte, K. P. (2018). Food sovereignty, justice, and Indigenous peoples. In The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics.
https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199372263.013.34
RAIR Publications & Additional Resources
RAIR Collective. 2023. Field Notes from RAIR: Putting Relational Accountability into Practice. January 2023.
Full article: https://raircollective.squarespace.com/s/RAIR-Full-article-2022-23.pdf
Abbreviated version: Canadian Food Studies — https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/565
Many more resources can be found here