Investigating and addressing the challenges of equity and social justice in the urban agriculture movement
Kristin Reynolds (Author)
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.
Nevin Cohen (Author)
NEVIN COHEN is an associate professor at the CUNY School of Public
Health.
Challenging the increasingly mainstream view of urban agriculture
as an extension of the new food movement that consists of young,
middle-class white “homesteaders” and “pioneers,” Nevin Cohen and
Kristin Reynolds identify how communities of color have their own
rich history and contemporary forms of an urban agriculture
directly linked to a deeper desire to bring about community change
and social justice. The authors do more than provide an account of
this alternative view of urban agriculture; rather, they critically
yet constructively engage the movement while trying to energize its
efforts to achieve food system change and environmental, economic,
and social justice.
*coauthor of Food Justice*
Beyond the Kale is a much-needed antidote to the often a bit too
celebratory writing about urban agriculture. Through the voices of
their research subjects, the authors show that a frank discussion
of the race, class, and gender politics of this burgeoning food
movement is no less than an imperative.
*author of Weighing In: Obesity, Food Justice, and the Limits of
Capitalism*
The existence of race- and class-based disparities among farming
and gardening groups is nothing new. What is new is Reynolds and
Cohen’s meticulous, critical urban agriculture scholarship and
activist analysis focused on New York City urban agriculture
programs that advance social justice goals and are led by people of
color and first-generation immigrants from regions of the Global
South, with deep roots into their respective communities.
*author of Introducing Just Sustainabilities: Policy, Planning, and
Practice*
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