Autonomous food ways can be a point of entry to make explicit the three threads of democratic confederalism which are always intertwined —participatory governance, liberated gender relations, and respectful relationships between humans and other beings and flows in the landscapes they inhabit.
This research commune aims to focus on existing and past experiments in autonomous foodways in the interstices of the dominant food system. We hope to document, study and share traditional and emerging ecological knowledges and practices that cultivate balanced relations among plants, animals, people, and all our relations.
Overview: Our Objectives and Methods
Objectives
Document and connect autonomous struggles for the protection of life under pressure by global capital, state terror, climate chaos, desertification, and species death.
Methods
- Research historical practices of commoning, both before national borders and as part of emerging ways of living well with soils, waters, atmosphere, climate, and other beings.
- Create a network of seed libraries in collaboration with the Mazlum Doğan Library and Archive
- Support ways to connect experiments in autonomous foodways across bioregions, through storytelling, visits, and more.
- Document and propose ways to translate across cultures and across the divide between formal ecological sciences and practical knowledge.
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