Back to the Roots : Memory, Inequality, and Urban Agriculture.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shostak, Sara.

Series:

Nature, Society, and Culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Urban agriculture--Massachusetts.

Urban agriculture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (237 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Back to the Roots

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, urban farmers and gardeners are reclaiming cultural traditions linked to food, farming, and health; challenging systemic racism and injustice in the food system; demanding greater community control of resources in marginalized neighborhoods; and moving towards their visions of more equitable urban futures. As part of this urgent work, urban farmers and gardeners encounter and reckon with both the cultural meanings and material legacies of the past. Drawing on their narratives, Back to the Roots demonstrates that urban agriculture is a critical domain for explorations of, and challenges to, the long standing inequalities that shape both the materiality of cities and the bodies of their inhabitants.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 Cultivating the Commonwealth

Chapter 2 The Powers of Food

Chapter 3 Lineages and Land

Chapter 4 Stories of the Soil

Chapter 5 Urban Futures

Conclusion

Epilogue

Appendix A Into the Field: Data and Methods

Appendix B Research and Reflexivity

Acknowledgments

Notes

References

Index

About the Author

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780813590189

0813590183

OCLC:

1252221534