{"product_id":"gardening-at-the-margins-convivial-labor-community-and-resistance-paperback","title":"Gardening at the Margins: Convivial Labor, Community, and Resistance - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eGabriel R. Valle\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGardening at the Margins\u003c\/i\u003e tells the remarkable story of a diverse group of neighbors working together to grow food and community in the Santa Clara Valley in California. Based on four years of deeply engaged ethnographic field research via a Participatory Action Research project with the people and ecosystems of La Mesa Verde home garden program, Gabriel R. Valle develops a theory of convivial labor to describe how the acts of care among the diverse gardeners--through growing, preparing, and eating food in one of the most income unequal places in the country--are powerful, complex acts of resistance. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Participants in La Mesa Verde home garden program engage in the practices of growing and sharing food to envision and continuously work to enact alternative food systems that connect people to their food and communities. They are building on ancestral knowledge, as well as learning new forms of farming, gardening, and healing through convivial acts of sharing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The individuals featured in the book are imagining and building alternative worlds and futures amid the very real challenges they embody and endure. Climate change, for example, is forcing thousands of migrants to urban areas, which means recent immigrants' traditional environmental, nutritional, and healing knowledge will continue to be threatened by the pervasiveness of modernity and the homogenization of global capitalism. Moreover, once rural people migrate to urban areas, their ability to retain traditional foodways will remain difficult without spaces of autonomy. The stories in this book reveal how people create the physical space to grow food and the political space to enact autonomy to revive and restore agroecological knowledge needed for an uncertain future. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eGabriel R. Valle is an associate professor of environmental studies at California State University, San Marcos. He received his PhD in anthropology from the University of Washington in 2016 and is co-editor of \u003ci\u003eMexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements: Decolonial Perspectives.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8.9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 18, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45970297323717,"sku":"9780816554959","price":69.24,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/sV9l1VbgRC9780816554959.webp?v=1773780817","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/gardening-at-the-margins-convivial-labor-community-and-resistance-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}