Reparation Ecologies: Regimes of Repair in Populist Agroecology

Introduction to the symposium on critical adult education in food movements: learning for transformation in and beyond food movements—the why, where, how and the what next?

“…Is it possible that such learning processes could help raise critical consciousness and acceptance of difference? Can they help avoid authoritarian tendencies in populist movements struggling for food sovereignty, 'radical political agroecologies' (Cadieux et al 2019) or degrowth (D'Alisa et al 2014)? Further work is needed to understand how pedagogy can help to cross these deepening divisions in society.…”

Feeding relations: applying Luhmann’s operational theory to the food system

“…Some food activists seek to decouple feeding from other systems, such as disrupting how farmland is enmeshed in financial instruments (Ouma 2020 ). Others seek food system change by establishing new couplings or reshaping existing ones that connect feeding processes to public policy (Gupta et al 2018 ), international human rights institutions (Bellows et al 2016 ), political-economic systems (Cadieux et al 2019 ), or ethical and cultural norms (Broad 2018 ). In this way, Luhmann’s thinking is broadly compatible with other approaches to critical agrifood studies, offering a new framing for long-standing questions in the field about how to shape food systems that promote social and economic justice.…”

Informal Work and Sustainable Cities: From Formalization to Reparation

“…This can be realized through an ethic and practice of reparation, which seeks to reimagine and recreate socio-ecological relations from a full acknowledgment of the injustices of the past as they live into the present. 40 , 76 We advocate reparation over justice because dominant, liberal notions of justice center the individual, foreclosing consideration of histories of harm and denying the need for collective redress.…”