TUESDAYS, 6:30-8pm, 204 wheeler hall

this class will explore agroecology as decolonial praxis. it is structured in two parts: (1) guided grounding in social and political critical theory and (2) hands-on agroecological farming practices through workshops/labs at the oxford tract student farm. every week we will convene in wheeler hall with guest speakers for our lecture component, and also meet for our workshops at the farm. we hope to invite you to question, to feel, and to connect.

we will center our practice on lessons from the global agroecology movement, which seeks the liberation of peasant farmers via the rescue of indigenous and integrated farming practices. following the work of La Via Campesina and other advocates for agrarian reform and revolution, we acknowledge that the struggle food sovereignty is one in the same with the struggle against capitalism and imperialism.

pairing this with the theoretical framework of Black and queer ecologies, we will explore how our stories, identities, and liberation of all people are inextricably bound up with the Land, asking how must our understanding of each other and ourselves change in order to be in better, more sustainable relationship with the Land. agroecology is a means of building and envisioning systems that reflect that connection. we wonder, how might our systems reflect that relationship, making space for anti-capitalist, land-based, and community-anchored lifeways?