Environmental for Food Justice

Moderator’s Note: Today’s blog post is adapted from a research paper prepared by Rocio Evelin Carranza Jacinto, a pre-med student that participated in the Second Annual Acequia Agroecology and Permaculture Institute, which just completed a month-long field school hosted by The Acequia Institute in Colorado and offered through the University of Washington for Natural World (NW) and I&S (Ideas and Society) credit. Rocio’s carefully documented research paper is based on original interviews with two women active in the struggles for land, water, and indigenous culture. While Rocio does not explicitly present this as a critical eco-feminist interpretation of women and property rights, the paper nonetheless links ecological concerns and gender dynamics in in the context of the acequia land grant communities of south central Colorado’s San Luis Valley. One fascinating aspect of Rocio’s argument is that assimilation actually represents a transition from machismo as a set of gender role ex...