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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554270703321

Autore

Shostak Sara

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick : , : Rutgers University Press, , 2021

©2021

ISBN

0-8135-9018-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (237 pages)

Collana

Nature, Society, and Culture

Disciplina

630.9744

Soggetti

Urban agriculture - Massachusetts

Technology & Engineering / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.