Food Sovereignty and Gender: Agrifood Systems in La Mixteca, Oaxaca

In this research report, I choose to write more about the struggles, tensions, and nature of being in the field rather than describe my objectives, hypothesis, and methods – these all changed dramatically after spending six weeks in the High Mixtec Region, in Oaxaca. I write so not as a way to discourage field work, exploratory fieldwork, or any of its derivations, but rather to incentive more pre and post-field work reflections on positionality, on our methods, and put very broadly, on the use of our time and the time of the communities we work with.