Radical and Relational Approaches to Fermentation and Food Sovereignty Dialogue Series

Indigenous communities regard traditional foodways as core components of community health and wellness, yet traditional foods such as those made by fermentation practices are threatened by settler capitalist nation states that continue to legislate away Indigenous People’s rights to ancestral lands and waters. This goals of this transcollege research cluster includes curating a year-long series of convergence research activities that center radical and relational Indigenous knowledges and ways of fermenting foods. Ultimately, our cluster seeks to unsettle and expand dominant modes of knowledge production in food science research in ways that advances food sovereignty, an issue of urgent global significance for all peoples.