A01=Sara Shostak
Author_Sara Shostak
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
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equitable urban futures
farmers
farming
farmworkers
field
food
food industry
food system
garden
gardeners
health
inequalities
inequality
land
marginalized neighborhoods
Massachusetts
plants
racism
soil
systemic racism
urban farmers
urban gardeners
Product details
- ISBN 9780813590141
- Weight: 286g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 14 May 2021
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
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.
