Subsistence Agriculture in the US: Reconnecting to Work, Nature and Community

This book explores the resilience, innovation, and creativity in subsistence agriculture in America, focusing on ethnography and interviews with producers. It highlights the overlooked population of household food producers and examines how practical actions have transformed relationships to labor and land. It also explores the broader implications for social change and sustainable futures.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 144 pages
Publication date: 29 April 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Focusing on ethnography and interviews with subsistence food producers, this book explores the resilience, innovation, and creativity taking place in subsistence agriculture in America. 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.

Weight: 270g
Dimension: 216 x 138 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367557171