Cultivating Crisis: Comparative Cases of Policy Complicity, Slow Violence, and Cultural Genocide

2025/12/16 by Sarah Schmidt, Salvador Rivas-Aceves · 1 voice
Social Sciences · #Cambodian History and Society #Global Peace and Security Dynamics #Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/13876988.2025.2594030

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Abstract

Connections between food systems, state and market failures, and mass atrocity risk are shown through comparative analyses of three case studies. The corporatization of agriculture, influenced by policies that prioritize massified food production rather than small-scale farming has eroded food sovereignty and marginalized Indigenous and other minoritized communities. The study situates food systems within the framework of cultural genocide, illustrating how the displacement of traditional agricultural practices, loss of land sovereignty, and structural disenfranchisement contribute to broader patterns of erasure. The paper underscores the need for policy interventions that protect food sovereignty and prevent the conditions that facilitate cultural erasure, economic exclusion, and social instability.

Citations

• Violence, Peace, and Peace Research

Discussions

• As Sarah Schmidt & Salvador Rivas-Aceves argue: "policymakers must be compelled to take seriously the role of Indigenous and other minoritized foodways as spaces of cultural identity and social cohesi [bsky, 1 points, 0 comments]

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