Un-learning and re-learning: reflections on relationality, urban berry foraging, and settler research uncertainties

Overend, Alissa; Rai, Ronak

Un-learning and re-learning: reflections on relationality, urban berry foraging, and settler research uncertainties

Author

Overend, Alissa

Rai, Ronak

Date

2024

Keywords

urban agriculture, settler and Indigenous relations, land-based learning

Abstract (summary)

In this reflexive piece, the authors consider the unexpected lessons learned while undertaking a collaborative research project with their home institution’s Indigenous Learning Centre on urban berry foraging. The faculty member questions the ethics of settlers undertaking this work, even if in collaboration with an Indigenous community, alongside the promises of this work to critical food studies. The practice of urban foraging is understood as a wider metaphor for Indigenous worldview, and for different ways of being and relating. The student’s reflections weave together themes of learning outside the classroom, with family and community, and the holistic aspects of doing research.

Publication Information

Overend, A. & Rai, R. (2024). Un-learning and re-learning: Reflections on relationality, urban berry foraging, and settler research uncertainties. Canadian Food Studies, 11(2), 40 – 57. https://doi.org/10.15353/cfs-rcea.v11i2.649