Radical, reformist, and garden-variety neoliberal: coming to terms with urban agriculture's contradictions

摘要: For many activists and scholars, urban agriculture in the Global North has become synonymous with sustainable food systems, standing opposition to dominant industrial agri-food system. At same time, critical social scientists increasingly argue that programs, by filling void left "rolling back" of safety net, underwrite neoliberalization. I such contradictions are central agriculture. Drawing on existing literature fieldwork Oakland, California, explain how arises from a protective counter-movement, while at time entrenching neoliberal organization contemporary political economies through its entanglement multiple processes By focusing one interpretation or other, however, rather than understanding as internal inherent, we risk undermining agriculture's transformative potential. Coming terms can help better position within coordinated efforts for structural change, promoting farming cities an end unto itself, means itself.