Webinar: What Does ‘Undoing Coloniality’ In and Through Nutrition Practice Look Like?
Undoing coloniality is central to a food sovereignty agenda. It is also an important commitment for all nutrition and public health practitioners whose work centres social justice. But what does ‘undoing coloniality’ actually mean in practise?
In this seminar we will first establish a working understanding of what coloniality means and name some colonial tropes. We will then consider some of the ways the hallmarks of colonial logic,and its tropes, are already familiar to participants. For example, coloniality relies on binary thinking that participants will be skilled in identifying and critiquing from rejecting diet logic.
Next, using heart health/disease as our case study topic, we will expand this understanding to consider other, perhaps less obvious, ways that coloniality shows up in nutrition practise and shapes our research and knowledge-creation norms. Our focus is on learning to notice coloniality and its ramifications as a prerequisite to developing alternative anti-oppressive framings that we can put into practise.
All registrants will receive access to the recording and any additional resources as available. The CPE activity application for What Does ‘Undoing Coloniality’ In and Through Nutrition Practice Look Like? is pending CDR review and approval for 1.5 CPEUs.
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Speaker
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Lucy Aphramor (they/qwe)Lucy Aphramor (they/qwe) is a white bodied, thin queer radical dietitian, public scholar and performance poet. They are interested in collectively reimagining the stories we live out around food, bodies, and health, to develop liberatory alternatives. This involves practices for thinking beyond binaries of healthy/unhealthy, good/bad, human/nonhuman, or queering as process. They show how experiences of trauma and oppression are relevant to so-called diet related diseases in a framing that exposes, and seeks to interrupt, ableism, racism, fatmisia, colonialism, and related ideologies inherent in public health nutrition narratives.
