food and political

Plan to write ~5 paragraphs for essay, or approximately 600-800 words. Each essay requires discussion of 3 examples (if you’re not using course content-based examples, you’ll quickly lose points). Use diverse examples from different readings. Prove to me you know and understand the content by using extremely specific examples from the readings, and by backing them up with your own analysis. Be sure you’re answering the final “why does this matter” questions at the tail end of the essay! 

Your friend insists that foodways are “just food,” and that there’s nothing political about food. You disagree: “everything is political.” Your friend does not understand why. Using the example of the Makah whale hunt, and two additional examples of your choice from the readings, explain three different ways that food can be political in nature. Why is it important to understand food’s political dimensions?

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attachment #1

Roberts, Christina. 2010. “Treaty Rights Ignored: Neocolonialism and the Makah Whale Hunt.” Kenyon Review 32.1: 78-90.

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LaDuke, Winona. 1994. “Traditional Ecological Knowledge and Environmental Futures.” Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy 5: 127-48.

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Turner, Nancy J., Mark Plotkin, & Harriet V. Kuhnlein. 2013. “Global Environmental Challenges to the Integrity of Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems.” In Ed. H.V. Kuhnlein, B. Erasmus, D. Spigelski, & B. Burlingame, Indigenous Peoples’ Food Systems and Well-Being: Interventions and Policies for Healthy Communities. 23-38.

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Frandy, Tim. 2009. “Ecology and Identity in the Northwoods: Finnish-American Poaching Techniques and Narratives.” In Wild Games: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Hunting and Fishing in North America. Ed. Eric Eliason & Dennis Cutchins. University of Tennessee Press: 166-82.