Getting the Lead Out: Urban Chicken Keeping as Transformative Neo-Agrarianism

This ethnographic study explores how the discovery of lead contamination in urban chicken flocks in the Boston area unsettles postindustrial optimism and neo-agrarian romanticism, producing new openings for multispecies relationships. Within rising popular and political attention to food systems, ur...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Sydney Giacalone
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Dalhousie University Libraries 2017-09-01
Series:The Journal for Undergraduate Ethnography
Online Access:https://ojs.library.dal.ca/JUE/article/view/8414