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Visualizing Agrarian Myth and Place-Based Resistance in South Central Los Angeles

Visualizing Agrarian Myth and Place-Based Resistance in South Central Los Angeles The Garden, a drama documentary, visualizes a cultural trend toward the resistive re-articulation of mythic assumptions about the morality of farming within a nation of predominantly urban citizens. The tale unfolds as the virtuous main character (the South Central Farmers) struggles against villains threatening the mythology of agrarianism. By invoking the myth of a new agrarianism, the film is able to expose the ethnic, raced, classed, and gendered basis of land-use rhetoric, and how it perpetuates unequal access to dominant myths as empowerment resources. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Environmental Communication Taylor & Francis

Visualizing Agrarian Myth and Place-Based Resistance in South Central Los Angeles

Environmental Communication , Volume 5 (3): 6 – Sep 1, 2011
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Taylor & Francis
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1752-4032
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1752-4040
DOI
10.1080/17524032.2011.593638
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Abstract

The Garden, a drama documentary, visualizes a cultural trend toward the resistive re-articulation of mythic assumptions about the morality of farming within a nation of predominantly urban citizens. The tale unfolds as the virtuous main character (the South Central Farmers) struggles against villains threatening the mythology of agrarianism. By invoking the myth of a new agrarianism, the film is able to expose the ethnic, raced, classed, and gendered basis of land-use rhetoric, and how it perpetuates unequal access to dominant myths as empowerment resources.

Journal

Environmental CommunicationTaylor & Francis

Published: Sep 1, 2011

Keywords: Agrarian Myth; Place; Agrarianism; Community Gardens; Farmers

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