COVID-19 has exposed the racialized nature of Food systems, but also potentially grants opportunities to build anew.
An Abolitionist Agroecology cracks open multiple possibilities that respond to the exigencies of a Pandemic planet - there is no \'normal\' to which we can safely return..
Scholars including Angela Davis, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, and Mariame Kaba have argued that although abolition is frequently seen as an oppositional strategy - to eradicate, for example, prisons and police - abolition is equally propositional.
No anti-capitalist alternative can ignore the racism that is central to the transnational industrial Food system.
To tackle pandemics and Food injustices, Montenegro calls for an Abolitionist agroecology.
Racism enables such theft as fundamental to capitalist expansion.
Pandemics have their roots in the violent separation of communities from their territories, seeds, knowledge and wealth.
Industrial animal agriculture drives these ecological changes that incubate future outbreaks.
She traces the likely origins of COVID-19 to spillover sites forged by agroindustrial expansion into forested regions where pathogens spring free and infect humans.
Maywa Montenegro explores a series of breakdowns, from fractured supply chains to uncontrolled infection among essential Food workers to Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities scythed through by the virus along old grooves of race-class oppression.
COVID-19 has exposed the racialized nature of Food systems, but also potentially grants opportunities to build anew
