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Coming to know through story: exploring the social economy of blueberry foraging in Northwestern Ontario
(2018)Foraging for wild blueberries is part of the identity of many Northern Ontario residents. As far back as many people can remember their families have completed the annual trek out to the blueberry patch to harvest blueberries ... -
Confronting settler colonialism in food movements
(2020)The dominant global capitalist food system is contributing significantly to social, political, ecological, and economic crises around the world. In response, food movements have emerged to challenge the legitimacy of ... -
Decolonizing (for settlers): a pedagogical framework for enacting responsibilities
(2021)The first section of this portfolio offers a grounding of core concepts central to the framework, specifically an explanation of settler colonialism, why use the terms Indigenous and settler, and what decolonization ... -
Exploring cooking, culture, and equity in collective cooking spaces: a case study of roots to harvest
(2021)This thesis explores how non-profit organizations can use Collective Cooking Spaces (CCS) to support the populations they serve, integrate culture into their programming, and address equity issues. The research presented ... -
Exploring food system assessments as a contribution to sustainability and equity: a case study of the Thunder Bay + area food strategy community food system report card
(2023)The corporate food regime has contributed to a number of negative outcomes that include land, water, and ecosystem degradation; human health concerns; marginalization of smallholder farmers and urban agriculture producers; ... -
From divestment to climate justice: perspectives from university fossil fuel divestment campaigns
(2022)The Fossil Fuel Divestment (FFD) Movement has helped facilitate a global transition away from fossil fuels by stigmatizing the sector’s public image. The movement has been claimed to be rooted in climate justice, a ... -
An investigation into the local and traditional knowledge of the Saugeen Ojibway Nation regarding the status of ciscoes (Coregonus spp.) in Lake Huron
(2020)The ciscoes (Coregonus spp.) of Lake Huron are a poorly understood group of fish that have experienced declines in population numbers and a collapse of their ecological communities. Ciscoes are culturally and socio-economically ... -
Listening to perspectives of Animbiigoo Zaagi’igan Anishinaabek Elders, hunters, and youth on environmental contaminants and their impacts
(2025)Traditional foods are integral to the Animbiigoo Zaagi’igan Anishinaabek (AZA) First Nation in Northwestern Ontario. More than simply sustenance, they also play an integral role in the community’s culture, health and ... -
Planting the seeds of local food capacity in Northern, Provincial Canada: a case study of community and market gardening initiatives in Cumberland House, Saskatchewan
(2021)This thesis explores the impacts of two gardening initiatives – a community garden and a market garden – in a municipality inhabited mostly by Indigenous people in Northern Saskatchewan. This case study employed an ... -
Social-ecological resurgence through farmers’ traditional knowledge and agroecology in Pakistan
(2024)There is an urgent need to transform global food systems. Basic food supply chains have been disrupted due to the structural vulnerabilities within the dominant food system. Scholars, ecologists, smallholder farmers, ... -
Toward foodsheds: reimagining food systems in the Lake Superior watershed
(2023)The Lake Superior watershed is nested within multiple Indigenous territories, two settler-colonial nation-states, and a globalized capitalist economic system. While water flows freely, the pursuit of social and ecological ...
