Moving towards an anti-colonial definition for regenerative agriculture

B Sands, MR Machado, A White, E Zent… - Agriculture and Human …, 2023 - Springer
Regenerative agriculture refers to a suite of principles, practices, or outcomes which seek to
improve soil health, biodiversity, climate, ecosystem function, and socioeconomic outcomes …

[HTML][HTML] Bringing soils to life in the human and social sciences

C Granjou, G Meulemans - Soil Security, 2023 - Elsevier
Despite their key importance for ecosystems and societies, soils have long remained a
peripheral topic in the human and social sciences. Our paper aims to account for the recent …

Toward a relational materiality of soils: Introduction

A Krzywoszynska, G Marchesi - Environmental Humanities, 2020 - read.dukeupress.edu
As environmental matters, soils have been an object of inquiry primarily for the natural
sciences, with social scientists and environmental humanities scholars occupied with the …

Soil, territory, land: The spatial politics of settler organic farming in the West Bank, Israel/Palestine

R Grosglik, A Handel… - … and Planning D: Society …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
In settler colonial settings, agriculture is a means of reclaiming territorial sovereignty and
indigenous identity. Turning attention to the Jewish settlers in the West Bank and their …

Rethinking planetary boundaries: Accounting for ecological limits

M Sobkowiak, J Senn, H Vollmer - Social and Environmental …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
The concept of planetary boundaries offers a framework for understanding and managing
humanity's impact on Earth's ecological systems. These boundaries mean to delineate a …

[BOOK][B] Reactivating elements: Chemistry, ecology, practice

D Papadopoulos, MP de La Bellacasa, N Myers - 2021 - books.google.com
The contributors to Reactivating Elements examine chemicals as they mix with soil, air,
water, and fire to shape Earth's troubled ecologies today. They invoke the elements with all …

Learning with compost: digging down into food waste, urban soils and community

B Turner, A Hill, J Abramovic - Local Environment, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
This paper explores human, soil, compost and food waste interactions in a community
composting initiative in Australia. Drawing on an ethnographic study in 2 Australian cities …

Soil publics: regenerating relations with urban soils through citizen science

HL Price, S Engel-Di Mauro, K High… - Local …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
In contexts of regulatory neglect, it often falls to concerned individuals and community
groups to identify and reduce people's exposure to health-threatening pollutants in urban …

Thinking with soils: Can urban farms help us heal metabolic rifts in Aotearoa?

S Goburdhone, K Dombroski - New Zealand Geographer, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this commentary, we reflect on our work with an urban youth farm where young people
(re) connect to the food system. Participating in everyday soil creation and care activities …

[HTML][HTML] Soil extractivism: Political ontology of soil erasure in the European Union's agricultural politics

S Hokkanen - Journal of Rural Studies, 2024 - Elsevier
This article examines how specific (non-relational) political ontological understandings of
soils are incorporated into industrial agricultural politics in the European Union and …