Defining cultural-ecological resilience through community and sovereign food systems
November 1, 2024 - Doran, Nicole
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Abstract: . Resilience within social and ecological contexts has consistently been defined by the external forces acting on a system. This definition is narrow and insufficient to describe the forces of systemic racism, injustice, and inequitable power dynamics that are often at play in a settler state. This paper seeks to expand upon previous frameworks of resilience that have come out of social-ecological systems thinking to address three things: (1) provide a framework for resilience based on communities' agency rather than passive acceptance of external disturbances, (2) address questions of power and injustice within a settler colonial system, and (3) integrate societal and ecological resilience through the understanding that resilience of cultural systems is built upon the maintenance of relationships, defined broadly to include social and environmental relationships that have been upheld by Indigenous Peoples since time immemorial. A framework for cultural-ecological resilience will be defined and explored in this paper and applied to sovereign
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