Format/Structure

This panel will feature a series of diverse format contributions, followed by an open discussion.

Long Abstract

This session explores grounded stories of resistance and resurgence from the Global South that challenge colonial extractivism and cultivate rooted, relational futures in land, food, and biodiversity use. In the face of ongoing enclosures, greenwashed development agendas, and biopolitical control over seeds, plants, and landscapes, communities and marginalized groups continue to assert ways of knowing and being that honour land-based autonomy, restorative and ecological justice.

This session will feature contributions that:

- Center community voices, ancestral memory, and land-based knowledge in resisting dispossession, coloniality and degradation;

- Share stories of land, food and seed sovereignty, Indigenous knowledge, and collective stewardship of biodiversity;

- Explore food sovereignty as a terrain of political, economic, ecological, and epistemic struggle—and as fertile ground for imagining futures beyond capitalist extraction;

- Reflect on the use of creative, embodied, relational and just research methods, including storytelling, film, walking, participatory mapping, collaborative art, and engaged research as tools for both resistance and reimagining.

This session welcomes diverse format contributions from researchers, artists, activists, and community collaborators working at the intersection of food and land sovereignty, Indigenous and Afro-descendant ecologies, and counter-hegemonic environmental practice. Together, we ask: What futures are already being practiced at the margins? How can stories from rooted places unsettle dominant political ecologies and offer more just, situated alternatives?

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