Elizabeth Hoover is an Associate Professor in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy & Management at UC Berkeley. Her research focuses on Native American environmental health and food sovereignty movements. Her first book The River is In Us; Fighting Toxics in a Mohawk Community, (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) is an ethnographic exploration of Akwesasne Mohawks’ response to Superfund contamination and environmental health research. Elizabeth’s second book project From ‘Garden Warriors’ to ‘Good Seeds;’ Indigenizing the Local Food Movement (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming) explores Native American farming and gardening projects around the country: the successes and challenges faced by these organizations, the ways in which participants define and envision concepts like food sovereignty, the importance of heritage seeds, the role of Native chefs in the food sovereignty movement, and convergences between the food sovereignty and anti-pipeline and anti-mining movements.
The 2021 Howland Symposium: Seeding Resistance examines the ways that seed saving is inherently cultural and place-based. Seed saving is intimate, a reciprocal act between human and plant and an expression of obligations to past and future generations, as well as non-human communities. We hope this conversation reveals the myriad networks we engage when we design with plants and to inspire latent opportunities for designing, stewarding, and living with plants.
The symposium is organized by UVA School of Architecture MLA students Hannah Brown, Priyanka Parachoor, and Katherine Rossi and is supported by the Benjamin C. Howland Endowment.
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