This class focuses on subsistence as livelihood, and more particularly on the various ways that community provisioning systems (ways of producing food, shelter, and other necessities) have been defended and/or asserted as rights amid the pressures of socio-economic integration and “modernization.” This includes long histories of land occupation and “guerilla gardening,” struggles for the recognition of Indigenous subsistence rights in settler-state legal systems, and contemporary movements for land reparations, food sovereignty, and dietary decolonization. We will explore these and other ways that subsistence activities have been a site of struggle for cultural survival, community self-determination, and ecologically integrated provisioning systems. Topics courses are 4 credit, in-depth, thematic courses that may be repeated for credit under a different theme. May be repeated up to two times for a maximum of 12 credits. Prerequisite: ENS 1200 Everybody’s Environment! People, Place, and Planet.
- Teacher: Tony VanWinkle