Building Community with Earth: An Ethnography of Long Lane Farm
Document
Drawing from ethnographic research and my personal experience as a Long Lane farmer, I argue that Long Lane Farm represents a radical space within a capitalist institution in which farmers' practice of anarcho-collectivism promotes a vision of a just and sustainable future. Long Lane farmers come to understand themselves as part of a human and non-human Earth Collective, through community-building with Middletown and Wesleyan, and encounters with the farm's non-human creatures. Farmers' sense of belonging to a collective help them deconstruct hierarchical understandings of their personal relationships with the human and non-human, and practice justice that supports the flourishing of all life forms.
Item Description
Name(s)
Author: Lam, Kelly
Thesis advisor: Winston, Krishna
Date
April 15, 2019
Extent
73 pages
Language
eng
Genre
Physical Form
electronic
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In Copyright – Non-Commercial Use Permitted
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