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Häftad, Engelska, 2021
353 kr
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Driving through the Holland Marsh one is struck immediately by the black richness of its soil. This is some of the most profitable farmland in Canada. But the small agricultural preserve just north of Toronto is a canary in a coal mine.From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms recounts the transformation, use, and protection of the Holland Marsh, exploring how human ideas about nature shape agriculture, while agriculture in turn shapes ideas about nature. Drawing on interviews, media accounts, and archival data, Michael Classens concludes that celebrations of the Marsh as the quintessential example of peri-urban food sustainability and farmland protection have been too hasty. Instead, he demonstrates how capitalism and liberalism have fashioned and ultimately imperilled agriculture in the area.This fascinating case study reveals the contradictions and deficiencies of contemporary farmland preservation paradigms, highlighting the challenges of forging more socially just and ecologically rational food systems.
Häftad, Engelska, 2026
670 kr
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Hungry for Change demonstrates how students, staff, and faculty are working towards food systems transformation on, and beyond, the post-secondary campus.Through careful curation of chapters and a substantive introduction, this collection provides empirical depth while laying essential analytical groundwork demonstrating the connections between seemingly discrete and disconnected campus-based food movements. Drawing on critical food studies and critical university studies, this book proposes the new subfield of “critical campus food studies” as a distinct analytical approach for understanding how campuses, and their actors, are implicated in reproducing and resisting food injustice. Read through this lens, the chapters in this collection situate on-campus food justice interventions within broader structural and scalar food systems and post-secondary institutional dynamics. The contributors to this book enliven food systems scholarship while introducing new conceptual and theoretical tools for understanding socio-ecological and food systems change on and through the campus. Hungry for Change provides a platform to those on campuses struggling for more just and sustainable food systems through a variety of contribution types, from conventional research chapters to field notes and photovoice essays. It is essential reading for students, staff, and faculty invested in the scholarship and practicalities of movements for food justice.