Unearthing care
Rooting alternative agricultural practices in Norway and Costa Rica
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464563 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Isabelle Hugøy (0009-0008-3069-4580, University of Bergen, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1711-1734 |
| Publication date | 2024-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/25148486241245012 |
| OpenAlex | W4393440394 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 65 |
This article contributes to the growing literature on human-soil relations by exploring how care for agricultural soils unfolds among farmers who engage with alternative agricultural practices across different productions and sites in Norway and Costa Rica. These farmers approach soil as a living being and seek to approach care with macro- and microorganisms in response to soil challenges and economic instabilities. The article follows recent literature on soil care in showing how agricultural practices challenge the dominant approach to soils as passive. However, the article argues the necessity of expanding on existing notions of care. This, I argue, involves ethnographically "unearthing" care: unpacking and situating a diversity of soil care practices, their human and other-than-human entanglements, and how these relations are conditioned by environmental, genealogical, sociocultural, temporal, epistemic, economic, and political mechanisms within and beyond the farm. Considering these variables is essential to keep soil care in the emerging literature from following a romanticizing path toward abstract individualism
Agriculture · Agroforestry · Archaeology · Biology · Business · Geography · Political science · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Organic Food and Agriculture · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
Circles of care
Thinking with Soils
The Logic of Care
The Probiotic Planet
Indigenous management of tropical forest ecosystems
Regenerative Agriculture
Land Degradation and Society
Globalizing Care
Corporate social responsibility in local context
The Origins of Sociable Life
Toward a Relational Materiality of Soils
Nonhuman Labor and the Making of Resources
Justus von Liebig Makes the World
Matters of care
Stewardship, care and relational values
Gender and resource management
Drivers of change in Norwegian agricultural land control and the emergence of rental farming
Indigenous soil knowledge among the Fulani of northern Burkina Faso
The `Latte Revolution'? Regulation, Markets and Consumption in the Global Coffee Chain
Coffee and Power
A critical physical geography of no‐till agriculture
Soils and Societies
The matter of energy emerges
Ways of (un)knowing landscapes
Variance in Approach Toward a ‘Sustainable’ Coffee Industry in Costa Rica
Pandora's hope
Varieties of corporate social responsibility (CSR)
Caring for soil life in the Anthropocene
Norsk antropologisk tidsskrift
Critical realism in political ecology
The temporality of the landscape
Compost Politics
Re-animating soils
Seeing Like a State
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Politics of Nature
"Radical alterity is just another way of saying "reality
Wormy Collaborations in Practices of Soil Construction
The Emergence of Multispecies Ethnography
The Nectar of Life
Cultures of Fermentation
Becoming 'Wild' at the Intersection of Knowledges
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |