Growing Resistance: Reimagining Urban Agriculture As a Practice of Everyday Citymaking in Dakar, Senegal
This project aims to investigate how city dwellers in Dakar practice and organize around urban agriculture to contest uneven power structures and collectively reshape socioecological relations and spatial dynamics in the city. I draw from the literature of food regime theory, situated urban political ecology, and food sovereignty in order to understand how farming efforts coalesce into broader struggles over reclaiming and remaking the city in ways that are more socially and ecologically equitable. I hope to elucidate the emancipatory possibilities and pluralities of urban farming and its role in aiding urban dwellers engaged in ecological and political struggles over the city in Dakar and elsewhere.