Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 318 g
Reconnecting to Work, Nature and Community
Buch, Englisch, 144 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 318 g
Reihe: Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
ISBN: 978-0-367-45872-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
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.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Primärer Sektor Agrarökonomie, Ernährungswirtschaft
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik
- Naturwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Agrarwissenschaften Nachhaltige Landwirtschaft
- Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Sachbuch, Reise
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften, Biologie: Sachbuch, Naturführer
- Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Ökologie
Weitere Infos & Material
- 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"