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<p>Aotearoa New Zealand’s food production and economic activities are situated within a colonial-capitalist history. Productivism, “improved” pastoral landscapes, and distanced exchange play an important part in forming the nation’s social, economic, and ecological fabric. This article is an anthropological inquiry into the diverse economies of small growers in Aotearoa NZ, which considers the tensions and interrelationships between their ecologically oriented and interpersonal agriculture and the colonial-capitalist context within which they exist. We interpret eleven interviews with fourteen food producers and community organisers, illustrating how the participants were motivated to benefit their communities and ecosystems, and engage in interpersonal economies that cultivate relationships among people, landscapes, and social concerns. The participant’s practices have local significance, enabling community members to enact and imagine broader social, economic, and ecological possibilities. However, the participants were in tension with the nation’s productivist, privatised, and profit-driven fabric, shaping them in significant ways and fostering their call for collaboration and collectivisation to politically contest their socio-economic circumstances. Ultimately, this article juxtaposes the diverse economies theory with a structural analysis of Aotearoa NZ’s colonial-capitalism to reveal how the participants’ enactment of difference was both transformative within, and limited by, their context.</p>

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Ecologically and community-oriented farms as transformational sites: tensions and relations between diverse economic actors and their settler-colonial context

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    2026年4月8日

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  • Luca McLean,
  • Mark Busse,
  • Emma L. Sharp

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Aotearoa New Zealand’s food production and economic activities are situated within a colonial-capitalist history. Productivism, “improved” pastoral landscapes, and distanced exchange play an important part in forming the nation’s social, economic, and ecological fabric. This article is an anthropological inquiry into the diverse economies of small growers in Aotearoa NZ, which considers the tensions and interrelationships between their ecologically oriented and interpersonal agriculture and the colonial-capitalist context within which they exist. We interpret eleven interviews with fourteen food producers and community organisers, illustrating how the participants were motivated to benefit their communities and ecosystems, and engage in interpersonal economies that cultivate relationships among people, landscapes, and social concerns. The participant’s practices have local significance, enabling community members to enact and imagine broader social, economic, and ecological possibilities. However, the participants were in tension with the nation’s productivist, privatised, and profit-driven fabric, shaping them in significant ways and fostering their call for collaboration and collectivisation to politically contest their socio-economic circumstances. Ultimately, this article juxtaposes the diverse economies theory with a structural analysis of Aotearoa NZ’s colonial-capitalism to reveal how the participants’ enactment of difference was both transformative within, and limited by, their context.