Recent scholarship on urban agriculture (UA)—the production of food in cities—argues that
UA can both undergird and resist capitalist accumulation, albeit often at different spatio …

By foregrounding the ways that human existence is bound together with the lives of other
entities, contemporary cultural theorists have sought to move beyond an anthropocentric …

A rallying cry to link the food justice movement to broader social justice debates The United
States is a nation of foodies and food activists, many of them progressives, and yet their …

What exactly do vegans believe? Why has veganism become such a critical and criticized
social movement, and how does veganism correspond to wider debates about sustainability …

With a few notable exceptions, urban garden scholarship tends to be either celebratory or
critical of the role urban gardens play in wider political, social, cultural, economic and …

This paper addresses issues of access to land for food production in Toronto by offering
fresh perspectives on urban agriculture in the neo-liberal city of the global north. It examines …

Much of the alternative food movement is predicated on a prefigurative politics of building
alternatives to the conventional agrifood system, with only a smaller segment invested in a …

This paper illuminates how urban food producers contribute to the construction of food
sovereignty in less-expected urban settings in the Global South. In South Africa, jobless de …

There is a growing commitment by different parts of the alternative food movement (AFM) to
improve labor conditions for conventional food chain workers, and to develop economically …

Amidst the backdrop of attention to populism in general, it is instructive to understand
populism through social movements focused on food and agriculture. Agrarian populism is …