Indigenous foodways in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh: an alternative-additional food network

Introduction In this chapter we explain how colonial histories and continuities in local, national and international development policies impact local economies and foodways in the Rangamati Hill District, Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) of Bangladesh. The expansion of capitalism was one of the central motivations of colonialism, resulting in the accumulation of economic capital by colonizers at the expense of colonial territories and peoples (Childs and Williams 1997; Loomba 1998; Harvey 2005, 2007). Since the Second World War, social and political movements against these processes of capitalist accumulation have led to an upsurge of new independent nation states. Nevertheless, the effects of colonialism on local and regional economies and social structures persist.