Grassroots Special Section: 'Post-growth food systems for a just social-ecological transition within planetary boundaries'. Edited by CE Nedelciu, JB Hinton, M Oostdijk, K Benabderrazik, LG Elsler

Knowing soils – Perspectives beyond growth in carbon farming

Author

• • Susanna Barrineau susanna.barrineau@research.usc.edu.au Email Susanna Barrineau. (compose email, opens in email app.) Susanna Barrineau ORCID profile. (opens in new tab)
  • School of Law and Society
  • University of the Sunshine Coast View ROR record for University of the Sunshine Coast. (opens in new tab)

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. (2025) “Knowing soils – Perspectives beyond growth in carbon farming”, Journal of Political Ecology. 32(1). doi: https://doi.org/10.2458/jpe.5919