Resourcing an Agroecological Urbanism: Political, Transformational and Territorial Dimensions

ISBN-13: 9781138359680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 234 str.

Chiara Tornaghi; Michiel Dehaene

Opis

This book makes the case for an agroecological urbanism, re-inventing social arrangements and ecological practices. It will be of interest to advanced students and academics in agroecology, sustainable food planning, urban geography and planning and critical food studies.

Spis treści

Introduction. Embracing political agroecology, transforming sustainable food planning  1. Food as an urban question, and the foundations of a reproductive, agroecological, urbanism  2. Sharing the harvest: Transformative artful and activist methodologies for urban agroecology  3. Commons and Commoning for a Just Agroecological Transition: The Importance of Decolonising and Decommodifying our Food Systems  4. Urban agrarian alliance building in peri-urban Rome: The pivotal role of land access in food system reconfiguration  5. Urban agroforestry as a strategy for aligning agroecology with resilience planning initiatives  6. Soils, Industrialised Cities, and Contaminants: Challenges for an Agroecological Urbanism  7. The potential of bio-intensive market gardening models for a transformative urban agriculture: Adapting SPIN Farming to Brussels  8. The transformative potential of agroecological farmers: an analysis of participatory food system strategies in Nicaragua and England  9. Conjugating Social and Solidarity Economies in Chiapas, Mexico: Redesigning food systems for economic, social and ecological virtuous circles  10. Peasant Counter-Hegemony towards post-capitalist food sovereignty: Facing Rural and Urban Precarity  Conclusions. The programmatic dimension of an agroecological urbanism