Back to the Roots

Memory, Inequality, and Urban Agriculture

Sara Shostak

• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Year: 2021
• Print ISBN:
  9780813590141
  9780813590158
• eBook ISBN:
  9780813590165
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: City Planning & Urban Development
• Index: Technology & Engineering

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.
 

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Introduction
• 1. Cultivating the Commonwealth
• 2. The Powers of Food
• 3. Lineages and Land
• 4. Stories of the Soil
• 5. Urban Futures
• Conclusion
• Epilogue
• Appendix A: Into the Field: Data and Methods
• Appendix B: Research and Reflexivity
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• Index
• About the Author
• Series List