The Farm Wife Mystery School
Women's use of social media in the contemporary North American urban homestead movement
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 11476830 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Antonia Smith (Vancouver Island University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2015 |
| Volumen | 47 |
| Número | 2 |
| Páginas | 142-159 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2015-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Studies in the Education of Adults (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0266-0830 • E-ISSN: 1478-9833 |
| Editorial | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02660830.2015.11661681 |
| OpenAlex | W2270622272 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Referencias citadas | 15 |
Within the larger North American food security movement, self-professed ‘urban homesteaders’ have been tearing up their backyard lawns to plant vegetable gardens and install chicken coops in search of greater self-sufficiency and independence from industrial agriculture and the corporate food chain. Participants are most often white, middle-class professionals who have no previous experience in food production or preservation and they turn to the internet and social media for support and instruction. This article considers the online community created by the urban homesteading movement as a so-called community of practice, an educational space where adult learners never meet face-to-face, but where significant informal, self-directed learning is taking place. Women's urban homesteading blogs are examined in the context of social movement learning to determine whether the use of social media as an educational and community-building tool is aiding women in furthering their food security goals. Women's gender roles in this contemporary movement are also considered, and this analysis suggests that using social media may be helping to bridge the traditional isolation expressed by previous generations of women, to reinforce a sense of political purpose to home-based food production, and to potentially create an income source for the family
Agricultural education · Agriculture · Context (archaeology · Economic growth · Economics · Food security · Geography · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Social movement · Sociology · Urban agriculture · Diverse Educational Innovations Studies · Gender Studies · Indigenous and Place-Based Education · Law · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
| Velocidad de citación | historical |
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| Altamente citado | No |