Unit 4: Gender, Race, Class, and Food Justice Social Movements Flashcards
Body Politics
The impacts on the human body of these power relations as they are lived by individuals and contested by classes over time. It recognizes that the human body can be experienced as a site of exploitation and as a site and source of freedom and power.
Fight of Fertility
Highlights the ways that many social movements are struggling for control over fertility in its many forms, land and women’s labor included.
Curse of Nakedness
Naked protest draws on and centers the power of the human body, especially the female body, as the source of the production of human beings. Not only does naked protest employ the body in a protest tactic, but it draws on and reclaims deeper powers of the human body that are often sidelined in discussions of social movements and social change.
Ethnicized, Gendered Class Alliance
Alliances are built when people of different genders and ethnicities unite in solidarity to challenge class power and exploitation and to establish new ways of being and relating to one another in horizontal (rather than hierarchical) and harmonious (rather than contentious) relations, socially, economically, and ecologically.
Food Insecurity
The disruption of food intake or eating patterns because of lack of money and other resources. A household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
Food Deserts
Areas where fresh fruit, vegetables, and other healthful whole foods are unavailable. Affordable, nutritious, fresh food is literally out of the reach of most consumers, whose communities are made up predominantly of people of colour.
Food Justice
The process of addressing questions of land ownership, agricultural practices, distribution of technology and resources, workers’ rights, and the historical injustices communities of color have faced. It seeks to ensure that the benefits and risks of where, what and how food is grown, produced, transported, distributed, accessed and eaten are shared fairly.
-Intertwined with environmental justice and sustainability movements.
Urban and Community Gardens
While gardens at first appear to diverge from the typical protest actions of social movements, the growing worldwide movement for food justice has clearly begun to use gardens not only to transform diets, but to transform social inequalities into more horizontal and equitable relationships.
Food Sovereignty
The rights of people to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods. It is the right to define and control our own food and agriculture systems, including markets, production modes, food cultures, and environments.
Agroecology
A holistic approach to food production that uses—and creates—social, cultural, economic and environmental knowledge to promote food sovereignty, social justice, economic sustainability, and healthy agricultural ecosystems.
-Farming methodology and practical means for reaching the political ends for food sovereignty
Subsistence
The production of just enough food for a family to survive, involving minimal or no trade, and allowing life to be sustained at only the most basic level.
