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Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope: Place and Agency in the Conservation of Biodiversity
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Hardcover. Editor(s): Nazarea, Virginia D.; Rhoades, Robert E.; Andrews-Swann, Jenna E. Num Pages: 288 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: JFCV; JHMC; PSAF; WNC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.
Food is more than simple sustenance. It feeds our minds as well as our bodies. It nurtures us emotionally as well as physically. It holds memories. In fact, one of the surprising consequences of globalisation and urbanisation is the expanding web of emotional attachments to farmland, to food growers, and to place. And there is growing affection, too, for home gardening and its “grow your own food” ethos. Without denying the gravity of the problems of feeding the earth’s population while conserving its natural resources, Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope reminds us that there are many positive movements and ... Read more
Food is more than simple sustenance. It feeds our minds as well as our bodies. It nurtures us emotionally as well as physically. It holds memories. In fact, one of the surprising consequences of globalisation and urbanisation is the expanding web of emotional attachments to farmland, to food growers, and to place. And there is growing affection, too, for home gardening and its “grow your own food” ethos. Without denying the gravity of the problems of feeding the earth’s population while conserving its natural resources, Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope reminds us that there are many positive movements and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Tucson, United States
ISBN
9780816530144
SKU
V9780816530144
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99-15
About
Virginia D. Nazarea is a professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia, USA. She is the author or editor of several books, including Heirloom Seeds and their Keepers: Memory and Marginality in the Conservation of Biological Diversity, Ethnoecology: Situated Knowledge/Located Lives, and Cultural Memory and Biodiversity. Robert E. Rhoades was Distinguished Research Professor of Anthropology and director ... Read more
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