Farming on the Front Lines: Jewish Environmentalism and Kinship in the Chthulucene

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2022-02
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Krone, Adrienne
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Jewish , Farm , Chthulucene , Environmentalism , Climate crisis , Sustainable agriculture
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The Jewish community farming movement began in 2004 with the founding of Adamah and it now comprises over twenty fanning organizations bound together by a shared sense that the best way to face the climate crisis is by drawing on the well of Jewish tradition. These Jewish farmers put environmental ethics into practice as they face the realities of our time. The multispecies theorist Donna Haraway refers to this era as the Chthulucene, which she describes as a kind of time-place for learning to stay with the trouble of living and (lying in response-ability on a damaged earth. In this article, I draw on Haraway's work and on my ethnographic fieldwork conducted at Jewish community farming organizations all over North America to describe the ways in which Jewish farmers are staying with the trouble in this era.
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© KONINKLIJKE BRILL NV, LEIDEN, 2021
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Krone, A. (2021). Farming on the Front Lines, Worldviews: Global Religions, Culture, and Ecology, 26(1-2), 148-161. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/15685357-20220203
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