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100 _aHammelman,Colleen
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245 _aChallenges to supporting social justice through food system governance: examples from two urban agriculture initiatives in Toronto/
260 _bSage,
_c2019.
300 _a Vol 31, issue 2, 2019 : (481-496 p.).
520 _aUrban agriculture continues to gain traction in cities across North America. Many such efforts pursue social justice objectives with mixed success. This paper examines two urban agriculture projects in Toronto, Canada, to demonstrate the challenges of pursuing social justice goals via urban agriculture. Despite a long history of municipal and civil society support for urban agriculture in Toronto, stakeholders continually face bureaucratic obstacles that make growing food on public land inaccessible for groups without significant resources. Relying on Swyngedouw’s theories of the post-political condition, this paper finds that a seemingly depoliticized food governance focusing exclusively on processes of urban agriculture obscures questions about who benefits from such processes, which can pave the way for uneven development. This research contributes to literature on environmental justice and food governance by attending to municipal challenges to achieving social justice goals in urban agriculture projects
650 _aCanada,
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650 _apost-political,
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650 _a social justice,
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650 _aToronto,
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650 _a urban agriculture,
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650 _aurban equity
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_dLondon Sage Publications Ltd. 1989
_tEnvironment & urbanization
_x0956-2478
856 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1177/0956247819860114
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