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Abstract
This is an anthropological study of Local regenerative agriculture in Colorado based on the interviews that I collected at twenty farms over the period of five weeks in the summer of 2019. It is grounded in theory that surrounds and contributes to the sustainability and environmentalism discourses in anthropology. I argue that the group of farmers doing Local regenerative agriculture are engaged in a political and cultural dialectic, anarchist in orientation, that challenges the authority of the hegemonic way of inhabiting the world (revealing its contradictions) and that is a site for the development of a post-capitalist social order. By situating the farm in the center of the community, extending social relations beyond the transaction of commodity, and building cross-species sociality through the regeneration of ecosystems, Local regenerative farmers are pioneering subjectivities appropriate to the social and ecological conditions of the Anthropocene. Those farmers practicing Local regenerative agriculture are engaged in a form of activism, a praxis of theories about environment, culture, and how things should and should not be.