Abstract

This article works with the idea that radical solutions in agri-food systems require multiple ways of knowing soils beyond the dominant scientific practices. Using a relational lens that invites us to think with soils, this article lifts our gaze to human-soil relationships in creating post-growth food systems. In the context of a grassroots initiative in Sweden that advances regenerative carbon farming as a transformational pathway to food systems within planetary boundaries, poetic inquiry is used to bring the often-unheard perspectives of "knowing soils" to the fore; how we know about soils matters.

Keywords: soils, temporalities, diverse economies, poetic inquiry

How to Cite:

Barrineau, S., (2024) “Knowing soils – Perspectives beyond growth in carbon farming”, Journal of Political Ecology 32(1): 5919. doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5919