You cannot register for this webinar

This webinar has ended. Thank you for your interest.

Topic
A Rural Agrarian Reckoning: Multigenerational Farmers Seeking to Repair Soil, Agriculture, and Rural America Itself
Date & Time

Selected Sessions:

Nov 21, 2024 12:00 PM

Description
THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT, ZOOM REGISTRATION IS ONLY REQUIRED IF YOU WANT TO RECEIVE A LINK TO JOIN REMOTELY. Sydney Giacalone's research studies multigenerational farmers and ranchers across the U.S. who are transitioning away from conventional practices towards environmentally and social repairing approaches. This experience often involves questioning past education and internalized ideologies, learning to collaborate with nonhuman life to repair degraded ecologies, making intentional breaks from family and institutions, and joining networks to align with other people and causes. In the current US climate, these activities are often contentious within their rural communities and are intertwined with debates around the environment, land, gender, race, and class. As farmers’ transitions disrupt hierarchies foundational to the American family farm, how are familial, community, and ecological relationships broken, remade, or formed anew? This lecture will consider specifically how farmers are questioning and molding rural environments through these reparative efforts: what does American ruralness mean, who does it include, and why is it a landscape worth (or worthy of) changing? This lecture is sponsored by Environmental Studies in collaboration with the Department of Anthropology.