Published January 25, 2010
by iris_author
The City Institute at York University (CITY) present:
The City Seminar
An interdisciplinary series of presentations and discussions on urban landscapes, past and present.
Adriana Premat
Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario
"Plotting Change: The Politics of Growing Environmental
Consciousness in Toronto's Community Gardens"
Adriana Premat has conducted research on the practice of urban agriculture since 1997.
The bulk of her research has been focused on Havana, Cuba, where she approached the practice of urban agriculture as a window into broader societal changes, investigating among other things the implementation of sustainable agricultural technologies; shifting land-tenure patterns and access to food; and the redefinition of state-citizen relations in a context of restructuring economies and transnational governmentality. She has recently shifted her geographical focus and has completed
a preliminary study in the city of Toronto, Canada, where she investigated the connections between urban agriculture and an environmentally-inspired agenda that attempts to re-define urbanites’ relationship to food and to “nature”.
She is currently Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Western Ontario in London, Canada.
Her research on urban agriculture, the privatization of public space, environmental practices and the state in Cuba has been published in City and Society (2009) and the European Review of Latin American and
Caribbean Studies/Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericans y del Caribe (2003).
Friday February 5, 2010
12:30-2:00 pm
305 York Lanes
Everyone is welcome.
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