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Beyond the kale : urban agriculture and social justice activism in New York City / Kristin Reynolds and Nevin Cohen.
- Title
- Beyond the kale : urban agriculture and social justice activism in New York City / Kristin Reynolds and Nevin Cohen.
- Author
- Reynolds, Kristin
- Publication
- Athens : The University of Georgia Press, [2016]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Cohen, Nevin
- Description
- xii, 189 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Urban agriculture is increasingly considered an important part of creating just and sustainable cities. Yet the benefits that many people attribute to urban agriculture-fresh food, green space, educational opportunities-can mask structural inequities, thereby making political transformation harder to achieve. Beyond the Kale argues that urban agricultural projects focused explicitly on dismantling oppressive systems have the greatest potential to achieve substantive social change. Through in-depth interviews and public forums with prominent urban agriculture activists and supporters-primarily people of color and women, whose strategies have often been underrespresented in the literature Kristin Reynolds and Nevin Cohen illustrate how urban farmers and gardeners not only grow food for their communities but also use their activities and spaces to disrupt the dynamics of power and privilege that perpetuate inequity. Beyond the Kale provides recommendations for these in philanthropy, government, nonprofit organizations, and academia to support such initiatives. Book jacket.
- Series Statement
- Geographies of justice and social transformation ; 28
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Geographies of justice and social transformation 28.
- Alternative Title
- Urban agriculture and social justice activism in New York City
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-181) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Seeing beyond the kale -- New York City's urban agriculture system -- Growing more than just food -- Embodying socially just systems -- Cultivating policy -- Addressing uneven power and privilege -- Rethinking scholarship to advance social justice -- Taking a collective step beyond the kale.
- ISBN
- 9780820349497 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 0820349496 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 9780820349503 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 082034950X (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 9780820349480 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- 0820349488 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2015043957
- OCLC
- 922631061
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library