Beyond the Kale - Urban Agriculture and Social Justice Activism in New York City

Informationen zum Autor KRISTIN REYNOLDS is a visiting assistant professor of Environmental Studies and Food Studies at The New School and a lecturer at Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies. Klappentext 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 some of New York City's most prominent urban agriculture activists! the authors illustrate how some urban farmers and gardeners use their activities to disrupt the dynamics of power and privilege that perpetuate inequity.

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• Authors: Nevin Cohen, Nevin/ Reynolds Cohen, Kristin Reynolds
• Assisted by: Nik Heynen (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2016
• EAN: 9780820349503
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-4950-3
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Geographies of Justice and Soc; Geographies of Justice and Soc; Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories