Creating dialogues as a quiet revolution: exploring care with women in regenerative farming

Ane Kirstine Aare (), Anna Umantseva and Laura Brandt Sørensen
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Ane Kirstine Aare: Roskilde University
Anna Umantseva: Roskilde University
Laura Brandt Sørensen: Roskilde University

Agriculture and Human Values, 2025, vol. 42, issue 1, No 18, 288 pages

Abstract: Abstract Around the world, practitioners and academics are engaging in the rise of regenerative farming. On the margins of the predominant farming system, and often with little support and acknowledgement, regenerative farming is surprisingly persistent and represents a radical response to industrialization, ecological crises and alienation. This study uses feminist theories to grasp farmers’ regenerative experiences and explores how dialogical methodologies can create collective thinking among farmers and between academia and practice. The study is based on dialogues and iterative writing between three female researchers and two female regenerative farmers in Denmark in which we explore regenerative farming practices, female perspectives, feminist (more-than-human) care, and the sustainability crises we are facing today and in the future. The exchange of thoughts provides insights into what it is to be human in farming, including more-than-human relationships, as well as reflections on composting as a reproductive practice, and the (quiet) revolutionary potential of regenerative farming. Thus, we experience how creating collective thinking about common concerns across academia and practice can entail feelings of being part of a community as well as involve actual consequences and risks. Finally, it reminds us that sharing fragility by laying bare our work (and thoughts) as both researchers and practitioners allows for careful dialogues and valuable insights.

Keywords: Participatory research; Dialogical methods; Feminist theories; Regenerative farming; Care; More-than-human (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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