Book ID: CBB028618892

Growing Gardens, Building Power: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in Brooklyn (2022)

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Justin Sean Myers (Author)


Rutgers University Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 250
Language: English

Across the United States marginalized communities are organizing to address social, economic, and environmental inequities through building community food systems rooted in the principles of social justice.  But how exactly are communities doing this work, why are residents tackling these issues through food, what are their successes, and what barriers are they encountering?  This book dives into the heart of the food justice movement through an exploration of East New York Farms! (ENYF!), one of the oldest food justice organizations in Brooklyn, and one that emerged from a bottom-up asset-oriented development model.  It details the food inequities the community faces and what produced them, how and why residents mobilized to turn vacant land into community gardens, and the struggles the organization has encountered as they worked to feed residents through urban farms and farmers markets.  This book also discusses how through the politics of food justice, ENYF! has challenged the growth-oriented development politics of City Hall, opposed the neoliberalization of food politics, navigated the funding constraints of philanthropy and the welfare state, and opposed the entrance of a Walmart into their community.  Through telling this story, Growing Gardens, Building Power offers insights into how the food justice movement is challenging the major structures and institutions that seek to curtail the transformative power of the food justice movement and its efforts to build a more just and sustainable world.

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Authors & Contributors
Ginn, Franklin
Hickman, Clare
Jordan, Jennifer
Mullally, Sasha
Nieusma, Dean
Radder, Hans
Journals
British Journal for the History of Science
Engineering Studies
Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies
Journal of West African History
Publishers
University of Chicago Press
Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
Knopf
McFarland
McGill-Queen's University Press
MIT Press
Concepts
Social justice
Gardening
Gardens
Food and foods
Botany
Pollution
People
Adams, John
Bartram, John
Jefferson, Thomas
Madison, James
Washington, George
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Chicago (Illinois, U.S.)
New York (U.S.)
Canada
Portugal
Sri Lanka
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