Sustainability beyond Extractivism?: Insights from reciprocity and caring practices amongst regenerative farmers

Anna Umantseva; Jonas Egmose

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-51366-4_4

Sustainability beyond Extractivism? Insights from reciprocity and caring practices amongst regenerative farmers

Anna Umantseva^*, Jonas Egmose

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Department of People and Technology

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Abstract

In this chapter we are rethinking sustainability in a non-extractivist perspective. Whilst notions of sustainable development and green growth tend to reproduce dynamics of extractivism and mastery in human-nature relations, we analyze how practices based on care and reciprocity are pivotal to enable sustainable relations. To do so we build on a sociology of absence and emergence perspective studying marginalized practices of regenerative farmers in Denmark and Portugal. We analyze practices of care and reciprocity, how practitioners are organizing to enable these practices, and discuss changes in concepts needed to enable such practices. By doing so we draw attention to the need of redefining human-nature relations as a key challenge and starting point for understanding what sustainable economies might be

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Social Sustainability in Unsustainable Times : Concepts, Critiques and Counter-Narratives
Editors	Jo Krøjer, Luise Li Langergaard
Number of pages	22
Publisher	Springer
Publication date	2023
Pages	51-72
ISBN (Print)	978-3-031-51368-8, 978-3-031-51365-7
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-031-51366-4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-51366-4_4
Publication status	Published - 2023

Series	Ethical Economy
Number	67
ISSN	2211-2707

Keywords

Regenerative agriculture
Sustainability
Extractivism
Human-nature relations

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10.1007/978-3-031-51366-4_4

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Sustainability beyond Extractivism? Insights from reciprocity and caring practices amongst regenerative farmers. / Umantseva, Anna ; Egmose, Jonas.
Social Sustainability in Unsustainable Times: Concepts, Critiques and Counter-Narratives. ed. / Jo Krøjer; Luise Li Langergaard. Springer, 2023. p. 51-72 (Ethical Economy; No. 67).

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