{"id":55113,"date":"2020-09-22T06:39:33","date_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55113"},"modified":"2020-09-22T06:39:33","modified_gmt":"2020-09-22T11:39:33","slug":"beyond-authenticity-the-politics-of-agrarian-localism-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=55113","title":{"rendered":"Beyond authenticity: the politics of agrarian localism, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\">\n<h3 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/smallfarmfuture.org.uk\/2020\/09\/beyond-authenticity-the-politics-of-agrarian-localism-part-1\/\">Beyond authenticity: the politics of agrarian localism, Part 1<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>In this post and the next one I continue exploring the issue of protest, violence, class and the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement I raised in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/smallfarmfuture.org.uk\/2020\/09\/protest-violence-class\/\">last one<\/a>. I engage with some of the responses to the previous post, including one from Peter Gelderloos\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PeterGelderloos\/status\/1302554250275434496\">on Twitter<\/a>, but rather than being just another iteration of that post and its responses, I\u2019m thinking of these present two posts more as a kind of position statement on the politics underlying my forthcoming book,\u00a0<em>A Small Farm Future<\/em>, and its arguments for renewable agrarianism, using the debate about XR as my foil. And also more generally on the kinds of left-wing politics that I espouse, and the kinds I don\u2019t. I\u2019ve found the debate quite stimulating in clarifying all this, so my thanks to everyone who\u2019s participated for that.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve written the posts in the form of thirty-three numbered \u2018theses\u2019 or assertions, sixteen in this post and seventeen in the next one (to be published in a couple of days) which encapsulate my thinking. I\u2019ve tried to keep to the main themes I want to explore, which means with apologies I don\u2019t respond to many interesting points and criticisms that people raised regarding my previous post. I don\u2019t consider myself to be any great shakes as a social or political theorist (though see Point 9 below), and I\u2019ve somewhat lost interest in it in recent years, but in these posts I try to work out a position with respect to some of it \u2013 apologies for the abstractions involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond authenticity: the politics of agrarian localism, Part 1 In this post and the next one I continue exploring the issue of protest, violence, class and the Extinction Rebellion (XR) movement I raised in the\u00a0last one. I engage with some of the responses to the previous post, including one from Peter Gelderloos\u00a0on Twitter, but rather [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[30346,15683,23169,10006,656,9738],"class_list":["post-55113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","category-survival-2","tag-agrarian-localism","tag-chris-smaje","tag-extinction-rebellion","tag-localism","tag-protest","tag-small-farm-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55113"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55113\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55114,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55113\/revisions\/55114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}