Right to food, right to the city: Household urban agriculture, and socionatural metabolism in Managua, Nicaragua
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In this article, the concept of the right to urban metabolism was explored through an analysis of everyday food production and consumption in homes in an informal settlement in Managua, Nicaragua.About:
This article is published in Geoforum.The article was published on 2013-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 85 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Urban planning & Urban agriculture.read more
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Radical, reformist, and garden-variety neoliberal: coming to terms with urban agriculture's contradictions
TL;DR: The authors argued that urban agriculture arises from a protective counter-movement, while at the same time entrenching the neoliberal organization of contemporary urban political economies through its entanglement with multiple processes of neoliberalization.
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Urban political ecology I: The urban century
TL;DR: It has been over 15 years since the term ‘urban political ecology’ (UPE) was coined as mentioned in this paper and while still often not incorporated into larger discussion of political ecology, its growing visibility in the pu...
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Cultivating food as a right to the city
Mark Purcell,Shannon K. Tyman +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that there is much to be gained when we view struggles to cultivate food in the city through the lens of Henri Lefebvre's concept of the right to the city.
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Urban Agriculture in the Food‐Disabling City: (Re)defining Urban Food Justice, Reimagining a Politics of Empowerment
TL;DR: In this paper, three interlinked strategies for action are presented: enhancing the reflexivity and cohesion of the urban food movement by articulating a challenge to neoliberal urbanism; converging urban and agrarian food justice struggles by shaping urban agroecology; and regaining control over social reproduction by engaging with food commoning.
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Urban Metabolism: A Review of Current Knowledge and Directions for Future Study
TL;DR: Future analysis should focus on establishing a multilevel, unified, and standardized system of categories to support the creation of consistent inventory databases and seek to improve the methods used in the analysis to provide standards and guidance that will help governments to achieve sustainable development.
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