| Description |
xxii, 283 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Summary |
"In recent decades, the various strands of the food movement have made enormous strides in calling attention the many shortcomings and injustices of our food and agricultural system. Farmers, activists, scholars, and everyday citizens have also worked creatively to rebuild local food economies, advocate for food justice, and promote more sustainable, agroecological farming practices. However, the movement for fairer, healthier, and more autonomous food is continually blocked by one obstacle: land access. As long as land remains unaffordable and inaccessible to most people, we cannot truly transform the food system. The term land-grabbing is most commonly used to refer to the large-scale acquisition of agricultural land in Asian, African, or Latin American countries by foreign investors. However, land has and continues to be "grabbed" in North America, as well, through discrimination, real estate speculation, gentrification, financialization, extractive energy production, and tourism. This edited volume, with chapters from a wide range of activists and scholars, explores the history of land theft, dispossession, and consolidation in the United States. It also looks at alternative ways forward toward democratized, land justice, based on redistributive policies and cooperative ownership models. With prefaces from leaders in the food justice and family farming movements, the book opens with a look at the legacies of white-settler colonialism in the southwestern United States. From there, it moves into a collectively-authored section on Black Agrarianism, which details the long history of land dispossession among Black farmers in the southeastern US, as well as the creative acts of resistance they have used to acquire land and collectively farm it. The next section, on gender, explores structural and cultural discrimination against women landowners in the Midwest and also role of "womanism" in land-based struggles. Next, a section on the cross-border implications of land enclosures and consolidations includes a consideration of what land justice could mean for farm workers in the US, followed by an essay on the challenges facing young and aspiring farmers. Finally, the book explores the urban dimensions of land justice and their implications for locally-autonomous food systems, and lessons from previous struggles for democratized land access."-- From Amazon. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Lamenting a lost voice -- Preface -- Recovering our land to decolonize our food / Winona LaDuke -- The land is contested / LaDonna Redmond -- Agricultural parity for land de-commodification / George Naylor -- Introduction : Agrarian questions and the struggle for land justice in the United States / Eric Holt-Gimënez -- Section 1. Black agrarianism -- Africa's dream / Gail Myers -- Preface for black agrarianism / Monica M. White -- Roots! / Owusu Bandele and Gail Myers -- Resistance / Dãnia C. Davy, Savonala Horne, Tracy Lloyd McCurty, and Edward "Jerry" Pennick -- Regeneration / Leah Penniman and Blain Snipstal -- Section 2. Gender and land -- Changes on the land : gender and the power of alternative social networks / Angie Carter -- Womanism as agrarianism : black women healing through innate agrarian artistry / Kirtrina Baxter, Dara Cooper, Aleya Fraser, Shakara Tyler -- Section 3. Land access, social privilege, and the rise of indigenous leadership -- Notes from a new farmer : rent-culture, insecurity, and the need for change / Caitlin Hachmyer -- Settler colonialism and new enclosures in Colorado Acequia communities / Devon G. Peña -- We are all downstream : land justice, Standing Rock, and indigenous sovereignty / Hartman Deetz -- Section 4. Cross-border implications -- Unbroken connection to the land : an interview with farmworker activist Rosalinda Guillen / David Bacon -- From US farm crisis to the Cerrado soy frontier : financializing farming and exporting farmers / Andrew Ofstehage -- Section 5. Rebuilding the urban commons -- Land, ownership, and West Oakland's struggle for food justice / excerpted from interviews with Brahm Ahmadi of People's Community Market -- Urban land-grabbing and a movement for community-based control in Detroit / Excerpted from interviews with Malia Yakini of Detroit Black Community Food Security Network -- Section 6. Lessons from and for land activism -- Occupy the farm : the legitimacy of direct action to create land commons / Antonio Roman-Alcalá -- National land for the people and the struggle for agrarian reform in California / Cliff Welch -- The future is here : first nations & black sovereignties in a new era of land justice / Richael Faithful -- Conclusion : Together toward land justice / Eric Holt-Giménez and Justine M. Williams -- Appendix A. The US Food Sovereignty Alliance : developing a national strategy for land and resource reform / Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau, Stephen Bartlett, Lisa Griffith, and Kathy Ozer. |
| Subject |
Land tenure -- United States.
|
|
Commons -- United States.
|
|
Commons. (OCoLC)fst00869839
|
|
Land tenure. (OCoLC)fst00991362
|
|
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
|
| Added Author |
Williams, Justine M., 1985- editor.
|
|
Holt-Giménez, Eric, editor.
|
|
LaDuke, Winona, writer of preface.
|
|
Redmond, LaDonna, writer of preface.
|
|
Naylor, George, writer of preface.
|
| Other Form: |
Online version: Land justice Oakland, CA : Food First Books, Institute for Food and Development Policy, 2017 9780935028195 (DLC) 2017004590 (OCoLC)971021216 |
| ISBN |
9780935028041 (paperback) |
|
0935028048 (paperback) |
|
9780935328195 (ebook) |
|
9780935028195 |
|
