ABSTRACT
Since the turn of the millennium, there has been a burgeoning interest in, and literature of, both landscape studies and food studies. Landscape describes places as relationships and processes. Landscapes create people’s identities and guide their actions and their preferences, while at the same time are shaped by the actions and forces of people. Food, as currency, medium, and sustenance, is a fundamental part of those landscape relationships.
This volume brings together over fifty contributors from around the world in forty profoundly interdisciplinary chapters. Chapter authors represent an astonishing range of disciplines, from agronomy, anthropology, archaeology, conservation, countryside management, cultural studies, ecology, ethics, geography, heritage studies, landscape architecture, landscape management and planning, literature, urban design and architecture. Both food studies and landscape studies defy comprehension from the perspective of a single discipline, and thus such a range is both necessary and enriching.
The Routledge Handbook of Landscape and Food is intended as a first port of call for scholars and researchers seeking to undertake new work at the many intersections of landscape and food. Each chapter provides an authoritative overview, a broad range of pertinent readings and references, and seeks to identify areas where new research is needed—though these may also be identified in the many fertile areas in which subjects and chapters overlap within the book.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|108 pages
From hunting and gathering to agriculture
chapter 1|15 pages
Transformation of the landscape
chapter 2|17 pages
The shaping of food landscapes from the Neolithic to Industrial period
chapter 3|20 pages
Aboriginal culture and food-landscape relationships in Australia
chapter 4|12 pages
Archaeology, history, and urban food security
chapter 6|11 pages
Venison from the Bavarian forests
part II|113 pages
Agricultures
chapter 10|13 pages
Alternative agriculture
part III|67 pages
Ecology, resources, sustainability, and climate change
chapter 16|22 pages
Challenges in agricultural sustainability and resilience
part IV|69 pages
Developing worlds
chapter 22|15 pages
Urban Agriculture in Bogotá’s informal settlements
part V|66 pages
Intellectual, political, and economic realms
part VI|81 pages
Social practices and meanings
chapter 28|10 pages
Eating the commons landscape
chapter 29|17 pages
From the agora to the modern marketplace
chapter 30|13 pages
Allotments and community gardens
chapter 33|14 pages
Grassroots activism, agroecology, and the food and farming movement
part VII|82 pages
Food cultures and foodways