An analysis by Dani, Adiya, Rachel, MacAylee, & Danielle for SOCI 467
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Welcome!
In the spirit of Cox and Nilsen’s (2014) argument that theory must be useful for activists for it to have any value, we wanted to create a presentation that could be useful beyond this one assignment. We have made a publicly accessible multimedia overview of La Via Campesina that features academic literature, activist narratives, and art. Our hope is that this immersive look into La Via Campesina will provide our classmates with a deeper understanding of this movement and how it relates to social movement theories, but also live on beyond this presentation. The labour we put into this project may help other people learn more about (and perhaps unite with) La Via Campesina.
A few notes before you continue:
We use the abbreviation LVC for La Via Campesina often throughout this blog
The illustrations and images we have included come from La Via Campesina itself as well as supporters online
Click on bolded words and photos to be taken to the source
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Our Approach
As students attending an English-speaking university in the Global North, we find it important to position ourselves in our disciplines and approaches as we take on a global and diverse movement.
Dani: I am a gender studies major heavily invested in Indigenous and intersectional feminism. I am Dane-zaa, Metis, and a European settler. I am currently on Treaty 8 Territory - specifically on the land of Dane-zaa, Metis, and Cree peoples.
Rachel: I am a fourth-year Sociology and Psychology student at UBCO. I am Metis-Cree currently residing on the Tŝilhqot’in Nen traditional terrority. For the purposes of this project, it is also important to recognize I live in the Global North, with the privilege of also being white-passing.
Adiya: I am a fourth-year Psychology and Sociology student at UBCO. My ethnicity is Uighur and Kazakh, and I am currently residing in Spain, a former Colonial state that played a massive role in the creation, reproduction and spread of Racism, forced labour and European expansion. I, therefore, acknowledge that I am currently located in a country that forms part of the Global North that continues to benefit from its privileges.
Danielle: I am a fourth-year Sociology student at UBCO. I was born and raised in Canada and I am socially and culturally of the Global North and attend a Global North educational institute.
MacAylee: I am a fifth-year Psychology student specializing in forensics at UBC in the Okanagan. I am of European descent. Currently in a small farming community in Manitoba, Canada, in the Global North, I acknowledge that I am on the traditional lands of the Anishinabek people.
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La Via Campesina Music
Here is a short playlist of music that has been included in La Via Campesina videos. Listen to these songs while you scroll through our blog!
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What does La Via Campesina mean?
The English translation of La Via Campesina is “The Peasants Way.”
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What is food sovereignty?
"Food Sovereignty is the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems." - Food Security Canada
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What is agroecology?
An approach to sustainable development which focuses on creating a solution for specific local problems through a "bottom-up" and territorial approach. It uses a combination of traditional processes and science to create a new form of knowledge to empower the community and local producers within. - Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
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What are peasant rights?
"Peasants and other people working in rural areas have the right to the full enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms recognized in the Charter of the United Nations, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights2 and all other international human rights instruments, free from any kind of discrimination in the exercise of their rights based on any grounds such as origin, nationality, race, colour, descent, sex, language, culture, marital status, property, disability, age, political or other opinion, religion, birth or economic, social or other status" - UN 2019
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What is a social movement?
“A loosely organized but sustained campaign in support of a social goal, typically either the implementation or the prevention of a change in society’s structure or values. Although social movements differ in size, they are all essentially collective. That is, they result from the more or less spontaneous coming together of people whose relationships are not defined by rules and procedures but who merely share a common outlook on society.” - Killian, Turner, & Smelser (2020) via Encyclopedia Britannica
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What is neoliberalism?
“A system of policies that promotes the interests of private enterprises by eliminating any remaining barriers to capital’s search for resources, labour, and markets” - Hristov, J. 2021
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An excerpt from La Via Campesina’s United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP) Book of Illustrations. UNDROP was developed from the direct campaigning of LVC.
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La Via Campesina: A Transnational and Globally Recognized Movement
The 1980s saw states taking less interest in rural areas, and as a reaction to this, peasants began organizing. Peasants viewed these changes and challenges as coming from beyond the national borders of weakened nation-states. As neoliberal economic policies created cutbacks to institutions and organizations that supported peasants in the past, the peasants created organizations that were autonomous from the government. A transnational social movement defending peasant life, La Vía Campesina, emerged. The movement began in Latin America and then began to spread globally during the 1980s and early 1990s. This spread occurred as the organization's political analysis identified transnational corporations and international finance capital as driving forces behind the WTO, World Bank, International Monetary Fund (IMF), and free trade agreements, so it became imperative to organize at the transnational level. Previously, governments had excluded peasants from conversations explicitly relevant to their livelihoods. LVC's work changed this. Leaders of peasant organizations worldwide began participating in international debates regarding food sovereignty and peasant issues. As La Via Campesina grew, it gained internal strength and recognition from actors such as the UN. In the last decade, LVC has incorporated other issues such as gender inequalities and has stood in defiance with a focus on transnational corporations.
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