Resources

Research & Pedagogy Classics

  • hooks, bell. 1994. Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom. Routledge.

  • hooks, bell. 2010. Teaching Critical Thinking: Practical Wisdom. Routledge.

  • Freire, Paulo. 1970. Pedagogy of the Oppressed. Continuum.

  • Brown, Leslie, and Susan Strega, eds. 2005. Research as Resistance: Critical, Indigenous, and Anti-Oppressive Approaches. Canadian Scholars Press.

  • Smith, Linda Tuhiwai. 2012. Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples (2nd ed.). Zed Books.

  • Weimer, Maryellen. 2002. Learner-Centered Teaching: Five Key Changes to Practice. Jossey-Bass.

  • Leonardo, Zeus. 2002. “The Souls of White Folk: Critical Pedagogy, Whiteness Studies, and Globalization Discourse.” Race Ethnicity and Education 5 (1): 29–50.

  • Tuck, Eve, and K. Wayne Yang. 2012. “Decolonization Is Not a Metaphor.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society 1 (1): 1–40.

Pedagogy & Method

  • Daigle, 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.12201

  • Dhamoon, Rita. 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.

  • Nakata, N. M., Nakata, V., Keech, S., & Bolt, R. (2012). “Decolonial goals and pedagogies for Indigenous studies.” Decolonization: Indigeneity, Education & Society, 1(1), 120–140.

  • 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.2016.1241213

  • 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/w13050709

  • 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/10.1177/1609406918812346

  • Whetung, 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_00513

  • Windchief, S., & San Pedro, T. (2019). Applying Indigenous Research Methods: Storying with People. Routledge.

‍Agroecology & Food‍ Classics

  • Canadian Food Studies — http://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs

  • Food First — https://foodfirst.org/

  • Koch, Shelley. 2018. Gender and Food: A Critical Look at the Food System. Rowman & Littlefield.

  • Kohl, Ellen, and Priscilla McCutcheon. 2015. “Kitchen Table Reflexivity: Negotiating Positionality through Everyday Talk.” Gender, Place and Culture 22 (6): 747–763.

  • Cairns, Kate, and Josée Johnston. 2015. Food and Femininity. Bloomsbury.

  • Lappé, Frances Moore, et al. World Hunger: Ten Myths. Food First: https://foodfirst.org/publication/world-hunger-ten-myths/

  • 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.

  • Alkon, Alison Hope, and Julian Agyeman, eds. 2011. Cultivating Food Justice: Race, Class, and Sustainability. MIT Press. ‍

‍Podcasts‍ ‍

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-2020-0004

  • Cadieux, 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/2076-0787/5/3/57

  • Daigle, M. (2019). “Tracing the terrain of Indigenous food sovereignties.” Journal of Peasant Studies, 46(2), 1–19. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2017.1324423

  • Desmarais, 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/10.1080/03066150.2013.876623

  • Delormier, 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, e12556. https://doi.org/10.1111/mcn.12556

  • Figueroa-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/10.1163/15691497-12341473

  • Grey, 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/s10460-014-9548-9

  • Hill, 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.2024.100314

  • Kepkiewicz, 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/10.1080/03066150.2018.1439929

  • Kepkiewicz, 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/10.1080/01436597.2015.1002992

  • Laforge, 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.2020.10.025

  • Leblanc, J., & Burnett, K. (2023). “What happened to Indigenous food sovereignty in Northern Ontario?” In A Land Not Forgotten (pp. 16–33). https://doi.org/10.1515/9780887555176-004

  • Levkoe, 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.008

  • Li, T. M. (2014). “Can there be food sovereignty here?” Journal of Peasant Studies, 41(6), 1065–1088. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2014.938058

  • Littlefield, 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/s10460-023-10534-3

  • Martens, 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/10.7202/1038478ar

  • Meyer, M. A. (2014). “Hoea Ea: Land education and food sovereignty in Hawai‘i.” Environmental Education Research, 20(1), 98–101. https://doi.org/10.1080/13504622.2013.852656

  • Morrison, D. (2011). “Indigenous food sovereignty: A model for social learning.” In A. A. Desmarais, N. Wiebe, & H. Wittman (Eds.), Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems. Fernwood.

  • Morrison, D. (2020). “Reflections and realities: Expressions of food sovereignty in the Fourth World.” In P. Settee & S. Shukla (Eds.), Indigenous Food Systems (p. 284). Canadian Scholars Press.

  • 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: A case study of Anishinaabe perspectives and moose.” Ecology and Society, 27(1). https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12995-270130

  • Price, 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/s10460-022-10312-7

  • Raster, A., & Hill, C. G. (2017). “The dispute over wild rice: An investigation of treaty agreements and Ojibwe food sovereignty.” Agriculture and Human Values, 34(2), 267–281. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-016-9703-6

  • Robin, 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.007

  • Robin, 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/ijerph22020181

  • Robin, 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.2021.749944

  • Rotz, S., Xavier, A., & Robin, T. (2023). “‘It wasn’t built for us’: The possibility of 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: Origins of and responses to the food crisis in northern Manitoba, Canada.” Local Environment, 18(9), 1079–1098. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2012.754741

  • Shattuck, A., Schiavoni, C. M., & VanGelder, Z. (2015). “Translating the politics of food sovereignty: Digging into contradictions, uncovering new dimensions.” Globalizations, 12(4), 421–433. https://doi.org/10.1080/14747731.2015.1041243

  • Simpson, L. B. (2003). “Toxic contamination undermining Indigenous food systems and Indigenous sovereignty.” Pimatziwin: A Journal of Indigenous Community Health, 1(2), 130–134.

  • Stiegman, M., & Pictou, S. (2023). “We story the land: Exploring Mi’kmaq food sovereignty, Indigenous law and treaty relations.” Journal of Peasant Studies, 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1080/03066150.2023.2223482

  • Vandermale, E. A., Ross, P., & Mason, C. W. (2025). “Indigenous youth involvement in land-based food systems in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories.” Food and Foodways, 33(1), 28–51. https://doi.org/10.1080/07409710.2025.2440972

  • Wesche, S. D., O’Hare-Gordon, M. A. F., Robidoux, M. A., & Mason, C. W. (2016). “Land-based programs in the Northwest Territories: Building Indigenous food security and well-being from the ground up.” Canadian Food Studies, 3(2), 23–48. https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v3i2.161

  • Whyte, K. P. (2018). “Food sovereignty, justice, and Indigenous peoples: An essay on settler colonialism and collective continuance.” In The Oxford Handbook of Food Ethics (pp. 345–366). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199372263.013.34

‍ RAIR Publications‍ & Additional Resources ‍