TY - CHAP
T1 - Sami Identity and Traditional Livelihood Practices
T2 - From Non-Indigenous to Indigenous Food Frameworks
AU - Casi, Corinna
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - This chapter investigates the relationship between traditional food systems, livelihood practice and the identity of Sami Indigenous communities living in Northern Europe. The theoretical framework of this chapter draws from three non-Indigenous fields of study: food ethics, food security, and food sovereignty. Firstly, food ethics discourses are used to outline the significance of traditional food in Sami culture. Secondly, food security, as a global discourse on food policy, is employed to shed light to the accessibility and availability of nutritious and sufficient food for a healthy and active life. Lastly, food sovereignty is used to highlight the relationship between food and issues of inequality and injustice, and the importance of strengthening local food production. These analytical frameworks help point out the strong relationship of the Sami’s traditional livelihood activities of reindeer herding and salmon fishing with their dignity, self-determination, and identity as the Sami Indigenous community, even though the discourses about these topics remain in the settler’s realm and language. To empower Sami Indigenous People, it is essential to decolonise food security and indigenise food sovereignty discourses. In Sami communities, this means letting the Sami people develop their own definitions for food security and food sovereignty and set their own food policies.
AB - This chapter investigates the relationship between traditional food systems, livelihood practice and the identity of Sami Indigenous communities living in Northern Europe. The theoretical framework of this chapter draws from three non-Indigenous fields of study: food ethics, food security, and food sovereignty. Firstly, food ethics discourses are used to outline the significance of traditional food in Sami culture. Secondly, food security, as a global discourse on food policy, is employed to shed light to the accessibility and availability of nutritious and sufficient food for a healthy and active life. Lastly, food sovereignty is used to highlight the relationship between food and issues of inequality and injustice, and the importance of strengthening local food production. These analytical frameworks help point out the strong relationship of the Sami’s traditional livelihood activities of reindeer herding and salmon fishing with their dignity, self-determination, and identity as the Sami Indigenous community, even though the discourses about these topics remain in the settler’s realm and language. To empower Sami Indigenous People, it is essential to decolonise food security and indigenise food sovereignty discourses. In Sami communities, this means letting the Sami people develop their own definitions for food security and food sovereignty and set their own food policies.
KW - 611 Philosophy
KW - Environmental Ethics
KW - Food Ethics
KW - food sovereignty
KW - Food Security
KW - Sami traditional livelihood practices
KW - Sami identity
KW - Sami traditional food system
KW - decolonise food security
KW - indigenise food sovereignty
M3 - Chapter
SN - 978-1-138-37006-7
T3 - Routledge Research in Polar Regions
SP - 131
EP - 136
BT - Food Security in the High North
A2 - Hossain, Kamrul
A2 - Nilsson, Lena Maria
A2 - Herrmann, Thora Martina
PB - Routledge
CY - Abingdon
ER -