Anti-Colonizing Your Foodways through Ayurveda

Quarters
Summer Open
Location
Olympia
Class Standing
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior
Prita Lal

This course builds off the concept of "Decolonize Your Diet" (coined by various food justice practitioners) by examining the ways in which systems of colonialism and oppression have shaped communities' access to food. In this course, we will study the histories of colonialism through case studies in the U.S., South Asia, and other regions of the world and critically examine the impacts of the colonial political economy on Indigenous food systems. Further, we will examine efforts to "anti-colonize" foodways through the reclamation of traditional, pre-colonial ways of eating, often led by frontline communities at the grassroots level. This course will offer a brief immersion into Ayurveda (an ancient and holistic system of medicine from South Asia) through two Saturday intensive hands-on cooking workshops that focus on Ayurvedic approaches to nutrition, and consider ways that these approaches can inspire further anti-colonizing foodways.

Students will need a computer (with a microphone and speakers and preferably with a camera) and internet access.This course will be taught mainly online (through asynchronous Canvas learning modules) except for 1 Saturday all day class, which will take place in person at the Sustainable Agriculture Lab.

Anticipated Credit Equivalencies:

2 - Colonial Food Systems Histories

2 - Ayurvedic Cooking

Registration

Course Reference Numbers
Second Session (4): 40028

Academic Details

Food systems, education, food entrepreneurship, healthcare.

4
25
Freshman
Sophomore
Junior
Senior

$75 Fee will be used to cover food ingredients and expenses for one all-day in-person cooking workshops.

Schedule

Summer
2024
Open
Hybrid (Su)

See definition of Hybrid, Remote, and In-Person instruction

Day, Evening, and Weekend
Schedule Details
SAL 102 - Food Safe Lab
Olympia