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Back to the Roots: Memory, Inequality, and Urban Agriculture (Nature, Society, and Culture) - Softcover

Book 14 of 18: Nature, Society, and Culture

Shostak, Sara

 
9780813590141: Back to the Roots: Memory, Inequality, and Urban Agriculture (Nature, Society, and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813590140 ISBN 13: 9780813590141
Publisher: Rutgers University Press, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

SARA SHOSTAK is an associate professor at Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where she teaches in the Department of Sociology and the Health: Science, Society and Policy Program.

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Publisher
Rutgers University Press
Publication date
2021
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0813590140
ISBN 13 
9780813590141
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
236