The Prison Garden as Artistic Boundary Object: Fostering Food Sovereignty and Social Citizenship for Indigenous People in British Columbia
For Indigenous peoples in BC food sovereignty has and continues to be disrupted by the ongoing impacts of colonialism, resulting in not only food insecurity but disproportionate rates of economic vulnerability, social disruption, and barriers to education and employment; these social determinants of...
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ftubcjournals:oai:ojs.library.ubc.ca:article/190438 2024-05-19T07:40:28+00:00 The Prison Garden as Artistic Boundary Object: Fostering Food Sovereignty and Social Citizenship for Indigenous People in British Columbia Timler, Kelsey Brown, Helen 2019-07-16 application/pdf http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/190438 https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i202.190438 eng eng The University of British Columbia http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/190438/188806 10.14288/bcs.no202.190438.g188806 http://ojs.library.ubc.ca/index.php/bcstudies/article/view/190438 doi:10.14288/bcs.v0i202.190438 Copyright (c) 2019 BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly; No. 202 (2019): Arts, Crafts, and Healing: Understanding Social Citizenship in British Columbia; 99-123 0005-2949 10.14288/bcs.v0i202 citzenship food and nutrition prisons and incarceration rehabilitation info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion research-article 2019 ftubcjournals https://doi.org/10.14288/bcs.v0i202.19043810.14288/bcs.v0i202 2024-04-30T23:40:45Z For Indigenous peoples in BC food sovereignty has and continues to be disrupted by the ongoing impacts of colonialism, resulting in not only food insecurity but disproportionate rates of economic vulnerability, social disruption, and barriers to education and employment; these social determinants of health are also correlated with persistent criminal justice inequities, including over-incarceration. The growing, tending, harvesting and preparing of food and the activities that surround foodways are rooted in cultural contexts, historical backdrops and socio-economic forces; all of which are intersected by colonialism and its impacts on citizenship and sovereignty for Aboriginal peoples. Using a garden program in a federal prison in BC as a case study, we outline the ways in which food production and imperial notions of productive citizenship impact Aboriginal wellbeing within and outside of prison contexts, and how the garden - as an aesthetic and sensory boundary object – allows for critical discussions of foodways, rights, and sovereignty across the continuing boundaries of colonial Canada. The garden program - wherein incarcerated Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal men grow organic produce that is subsequently donated to a First Nations community in BC – provides an opportunity to explore the ways colonial ideals of productive citizenship have negatively impacted foodways and meanings for Aboriginal peoples. Our analysis also details how notions of social citizenship offer a novel way of understanding food sovereignty as a form of therapeutic art and craft. The garden, existing at the boundary of colonial agriculture, ancestral Aboriginal foodways and contemporary food rights, provides a nexus for conversations on art, food, wellbeing, rights and resurgence. Article in Journal/Newspaper First Nations Open Access Journal Hosting (University of British Columbia) |
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For Indigenous peoples in BC food sovereignty has and continues to be disrupted by the ongoing impacts of colonialism, resulting in not only food insecurity but disproportionate rates of economic vulnerability, social disruption, and barriers to education and employment; these social determinants of health are also correlated with persistent criminal justice inequities, including over-incarceration. The growing, tending, harvesting and preparing of food and the activities that surround foodways are rooted in cultural contexts, historical backdrops and socio-economic forces; all of which are intersected by colonialism and its impacts on citizenship and sovereignty for Aboriginal peoples. Using a garden program in a federal prison in BC as a case study, we outline the ways in which food production and imperial notions of productive citizenship impact Aboriginal wellbeing within and outside of prison contexts, and how the garden - as an aesthetic and sensory boundary object – allows for critical discussions of foodways, rights, and sovereignty across the continuing boundaries of colonial Canada. The garden program - wherein incarcerated Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal men grow organic produce that is subsequently donated to a First Nations community in BC – provides an opportunity to explore the ways colonial ideals of productive citizenship have negatively impacted foodways and meanings for Aboriginal peoples. Our analysis also details how notions of social citizenship offer a novel way of understanding food sovereignty as a form of therapeutic art and craft. The garden, existing at the boundary of colonial agriculture, ancestral Aboriginal foodways and contemporary food rights, provides a nexus for conversations on art, food, wellbeing, rights and resurgence. |
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The Prison Garden as Artistic Boundary Object: Fostering Food Sovereignty and Social Citizenship for Indigenous People in British Columbia |
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The Prison Garden as Artistic Boundary Object: Fostering Food Sovereignty and Social Citizenship for Indigenous People in British Columbia |
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The Prison Garden as Artistic Boundary Object: Fostering Food Sovereignty and Social Citizenship for Indigenous People in British Columbia |
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The Prison Garden as Artistic Boundary Object: Fostering Food Sovereignty and Social Citizenship for Indigenous People in British Columbia |
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The Prison Garden as Artistic Boundary Object: Fostering Food Sovereignty and Social Citizenship for Indigenous People in British Columbia |
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prison garden as artistic boundary object: fostering food sovereignty and social citizenship for indigenous people in british columbia |
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The University of British Columbia |
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BC Studies: The British Columbian Quarterly; No. 202 (2019): Arts, Crafts, and Healing: Understanding Social Citizenship in British Columbia; 99-123 0005-2949 10.14288/bcs.v0i202 |
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