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From Green to Green: The Environmentalization of Agriculture
Author(s) -
Cattelino Jessica R.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal for the anthropology of north america
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2475-5389
DOI - 10.1002/nad.12105
Subject(s) - agriculture , corporation , repurposing , politics , ethnography , geography , political science , agroforestry , ecology , archaeology , environmental science , law , biology
This essay analyzes an important but understudied trend in rural America: the repurposing of agricultural lands and waters for the purposes of environmental conservation and ecological restoration. As shown by ethnographic research in a mostly‐drained agricultural region of the Florida Everglades, which is centered on the proposed buyout of a large agricultural corporation for restoration purposes, this transformation is as much a social and cultural project as it is a political‐economic one. The environmentalization of agriculture is a rural American story that is only beginning to be told.