RIHN 15th International Symposium
Transitioning Cultures of Everyday Food Consumption and Production: Stories from a Post-growth Future
Date:Wednesday, January 13th, 2021 - Saturday, 16th, 2021
Venue:Online(Zoom, Slack)
Sponsored by:Research Institute for Humanity and Nature
Saturday, 16 January 2021
Session 4:Sufficiency and Cultural Change
Subsistence Agriculture in the US: Reconnecting to Work, Nature, and Community
Ashley COLBY (Rizoma Field School, Uruguay)
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Abstract
To date, researchers interested in alternative food networks have often overlooked the
somewhat hidden, unorganized population of household food producers. Subsistence
Agriculture in the US fills this gap in the existing literature by examining the lived
experiences of people taking part in subsistence food production. Over the course of the
book, Colby draws on accounts from a broad and diverse network of people who are hunting,
fishing, gardening, keeping livestock and gathering and looks in depth at the way in which
these practical actions have transformed their relationship to labor and land. She also
explores the broader implications of this pro-environmental activity for social change and
sustainable futures.
With a combination of rigorous academic investigation and engagement with pressing
social issues, this book will be of great interest to scholars of sustainable consumption,
environmental sociology and social movements.
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