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The Library for Food Sovereignty: A Field Report
Get PDFA Growing Culture (AGC), a US-based organization focused on advancing a culture of farmer autonomy and agro-ecological innovation, is managing the development of a community-led initiative to centralize local farming knowledge and innovations from around the world. Growing out of East Africa, the Library for Food Sovereignty (LFS) is being driven by a diverse group of local knowledge stewards, farmer-led organizations, and regional networks. The participatory, informal, and celebratory nature of the initiative sets it apart from other platforms. Organized directly around the communities themselves, the platform supports open frameworks for sharing, scaling out, and improving innovations across geographies. Farmer innovations are increasingly valued as site-specific and locally sourced solutions that contribute to community and environmental resilience. LFS promotes and celebrates the dynamics of local knowledge, bringing awareness of its potential to address some of the world\u27s biggest challenges
Urban Indigeneity: Constructing and Mediating an Indigenous Identity in Guatemala City
Get PDF This paper examines how development provides a site for particular performances of indigeneity in Guatemala. It explores the product of NGO (non-governmental organization) governmentality amongst a group of indigenous students participating in private scholarship programs in Guatemala City. The article draws on existing literature and ethnographic material to analyze three different outcomes when indigenous students engage with development NGOs that are trying to "empower" them and enable them to superarse, or overcome their conditions. First, an example of Hale\u27s "indio permitido" (permitted Indian); second, one of the erasure of indigenous identity, where success means assimilation into mainstream white/non-indigenous society; finally, a "third space" where indigenous actors become agents of their own development.
The Messages Behind Carved Swahili Doors: Field Report on Pre-Dissertation Research in Tanzania, Kenya, and Ghana
Get PDFFor the powerful merchants who established control along the Swahili coast of East Africa in the nineteenth century, doors held great meaning. Especially prevalent in the Stone Town district of Zanzibar are extant examples of massive, elaborately carved wooden doors that adorned the front entrances of grand buildings. These facades stood as direct messages of power, wealth, heritage, security, religious beliefs, and more. They delineated space in a myriad of ways. Who was the audience for their messages, what visual propaganda was at play, and how might this inform our understanding of cultural exchange and communications in the region today?
