Tornaghi, C (2014) Critical geography of urban agriculture. Progress in Human Geography: an international review of geographical work in the social sciences and humanities. 1 - 17 (17). ISSN 0309-1325
Abstract
Urban agriculture is a broad term which describes food cultivation and animal husbandry on urban and peri-urban land. Grassroots as well as institution-led urban agricultural projects are currently mushroom- ing in the cities of the Global North, reshaping urban landscapes, experimenting with alternatives to the capitalist organization of urban life and sometimes establishing embryonic forms of recreating the Com- mons. While this renewed interest in land cultivation and food production is attracting increasing interest in a wide range of disciplines – from planning to landscape and cultural studies – it remains a very marginal and almost unexplored field of human geography. Nonetheless, beyond the rhetoric of sustainability and health, urban agriculture raises several relevant questions of interest for a critical geographer. Starting by drawing a map of concepts and theories available in an interdisciplinary literature, and highlighting fields of possible inquiry, this paper aims to define the scope of and an initial agenda for a critical geography of urban agriculture.
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Keywords: | Critical geography; food-growing; social justice; urban agriculture; urban gardening |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 27 Feb 2014 14:26 |
Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2014 01:54 |
Published Version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0309132513512542 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Sage |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0309132513512542 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:77908 |