Subsistence agriculture in the US : reconnecting to work, nature and community
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Subsistence agriculture in the US : reconnecting to work, nature and community
（Routledge-SCORAI studies in sustainable consumption）（Earthscan from Routledge）（Routledge focus）
Routledge, 2021
- : hbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Focusing on ethnography and interviews with subsistence food producers, this book explores the resilience, innovation and creativity taking place in subsistence agriculture in America.
To date, researchers interested in alternative food networks have often overlooked the somewhat hidden, unorganized population of household food producers. Subsistence Agriculture in the US fills this gap in the existing literature by examining the lived experiences of people taking part in subsistence food production. Over the course of the book, Colby draws on accounts from a broad and diverse network of people who are hunting, fishing, gardening, keeping livestock and gathering and looks in depth at the way in which these practical actions have transformed their relationship to labor and land. She also explores the broader implications of this pro-environmental activity for social change and sustainable futures.
With a combination of rigorous academic investigation and engagement with pressing social issues, this book will be of great interest to scholars of sustainable consumption, environmental sociology and social movements.
Table of Contents
Introduction: Building shadow structures at the crisis of industrial capitalism
Subsistence agriculture in South Chicago
Guiding Theories: Social problems, emergent solutions
Who are subsistence food producers in Chicago? Meanings across class of alienation and viscerality
"It connects me to the Earth:" Marginalized environmentalism and a resistance to capitalist logic
"Without the garden we never would have met him:" Practitioner networks as post-capitalist shadow structures
Conclusion: "We've got to find a solution"
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