While traditional academic accounts of activism emphasise vocal, antagonistic and
demonstrative forms of protest, geographers have begun to expand the category of activism …

An examination of how advocates for alternative agriculture confront “science-based”
regulation of genetically engineered crops. Genetic engineering has a wide range of …

Saving More Than Seeds advances understandings of seed-people relations, with particular
focus on seed saving. The practice of reusing and exchanging seeds provides foundation for …

Sharing economies hold significant potential to unsettle dominant capitalist economic
relations and to inspire more responsible and collaborative ways of utilising resources …

State and institutional actors have been shaping settler‐farmer subjectivities in order to
transform the landscape and thus the history and geography of the Canadian Prairies. This …

This paper positions community seed saving (CSS) as collective knowledge and practices
used to cultivate, collect, conserve, exchange, and advocate for regionally adapted seeds as …

In 1975, the Missouri homesteaders Kent and Diane Ott Whealy launched True Seed
Exchange (later Seed Savers Exchange), a network of 'serious gardeners' interested in …

Individual seed saving and exchange are considered important components of
contemporary efforts to conserve crop genetic diversity that ramify at local, regional, and …

This chapter contextualises seed saving within broader debates on diverse economies and
argues sharing practices hold political significance in light of growing corporatisation and …

The privatisation of the genetic material in seeds through the proliferation of genetically
modified (GM) crops can be theorised as a form of'enclosure'that draws genetic resources …