| ID | 174552 |
| Title Proper | Indigenous food sovereignty in a captured state: the Garifuna in Honduras |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | MacNeill, Timothy |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This study explores the emergence of the Afro-Indigenous food sovereignty movement in the context of a captured Honduran state and unequal political economy. In contrast with national-level research that has advocated a policy of food security in the context of non-indigenous campesino movements, this work explains how food sovereignty is more appropriate regarding Garifuna Hondurans. In a political economy that has precluded other options, and given the deep cultural relation that Garifuna activists have to land and autonomy, food sovereignty provides a possibility around which Indigenous development can be animated. It encapsulates a local ‘fight’ response to repression as an alternative to northern ‘flight’, often via migrant caravans, that many Garifuna have undertaken. This study shows how food sovereignty, more than being a technical policy set, is a discursive and material node through which dispossessed and especially indigenous populations can enhance decolonial power in the contestation of entrenched hegemonic and institutionalised power in a corrupt, unequal and colonised political economy. |
| `In' analytical Note | Third World Quarterly Vol. 41, No.9; 2020: p.1537-1555 |
| Journal Source | Third World Quarterly Vol: 41 No 9 |
| Key Words | Development ; Social Movements ; Indigenous ; Food Sovereignty ; Honduras ; Land Grabs ; Decoloniality ; Garifuna |