Alyshia galvez biography of george
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The Future is Now
Alyshia Gálvez and Sean Sherman on building indigenous futures
MOLD’s series on Degrowth explores how activists, farmers, and scholars have sought to create more resilient communities and food systems in rejection of the drive for infinite economic growth.
Alyshia Gálvez is the author of Eating NAFTA: Trade, Food Policies, and the Destruction of Mexico and a medical and cultural anthropologist who studies the relationship between changing food systems, trade and economic policy and public health. We asked Gálvez to speak with Sean Sherman, the award-winning author behind The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen, about his work cultivating the future of indigenous foodways with his organization Indigenous Food Lab.
The future is now, and it is being built on the banks of the Mississippi River in Minneapolis. In the future, as in the past, people are gathering greens and berries from the banks
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For our fourth series of podcasts produced in collaboration with Meant to Be Eaten on Heritage Radio Network, we sit down (virtually) with authors who have contributed to our upcoming first issue of 2021, which continues to feature COVID-19 Dispatches, but also original research articles around the themes of the relationship between food, power and politics, cultivating relationships, and sustaining memories.
For this episode, Editorial Collective member Jaclyn Rohel is joined by Alyshia Gálvez, who explores the work of transnational food couriers known as paqueteros and paqueteras in her forthcoming article, “Paqueteros and Paqueteras: Humanizing a Dehumanized Food System.” These informal grassroots entrepreneurs connect people and places across international borders through the delivery of goods, care packages, and specialty and traditional foods. Drawing on ethnographic research of micro-local foodways in Mexico (Puebla) and the United States (New York) and the c
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Migration
“Migration” was initially used in early sixteenth-century French to refer to human movement across space. These early usages date to the initial period of europeisk conquest and colonization of the Americas, arguably the first phase of what is today referred to as globalization (Wolf 1982). The contexts of these usages were largely historical and literary, referring to the utvisning of Adam from Eden or the travel of a individ from one town to another. A century later, “migration” was deployed bygd natural scientists in reference to the migration of birds, salmon, and butterflies. This naturalistic use of the begrepp predominated into the twentieth century, as the natural and social sciences came to view animal and human actions, relations, and movements in an empiricist light, as objective and apolitical (Foucault 1976/1990, 1975/1995). Human migration was thus dehumanized, reduced to a mechanistic response to availability of resources. Whether nomadic groups crossing the ice b