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From dismal swamp to smiling farms : food, agriculture, and change in the Holland Marsh

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概要 "Driving through the Holland Marsh one is struck immediately by the black richness of its soil. This is some of the most profitable farmland in Canada. But the small agricultural preserve just north o...f Toronto is a canary in a coal mine. From Dismal Swamp to Smiling Farms recounts the transformation, use, and protection of the Holland Marsh, exploring how human ideas about nature shape agriculture, while agriculture in turn shapes ideas about nature. Drawing on interviews, media accounts and archival data, Michael Classens concludes that celebrations of the Marsh as the quintessential example of peri-urban food sustainability and farmland protection have been too hasty. Instead, he demonstrates how capitalism and liberalism have fashioned, and ultimately imperilled, agriculture in the area. The social and ecological crises of our industrialized food system are becoming more acute, and questions about where our food comes from and under what conditions have never been more important. At the centre of these questions--and of any efforts to re-localize food systems--is the land. This fascinating case study reveals the contradictions and deficiencies of contemporary farmland preservation paradigms, highlighting the challenges of forging a more socially just and ecologically rational food system."--続きを見る
目次 The Production of Land, 14,000 BC-1925
The Production of Fields, 1925-1935
Crops, Markets, and the Production of Stability, 1935-1954
Agricultural Modernization, Ecological Contradiction, and the Production of Instability, 1954-1980
A Legacy of Contradictions: Crisis and the (Re)production of the Holland Marsh, 1980-Present
W(h)ither the Marsh?.
本文を見る Project Muse Open Access ebooks: 2021
OAPEN (Open Access Publishing in European Networks): 2021
DOAB Directory of Open Access Books: 2021

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