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What grows from a pandemic? Toward an abolitionist agroecology

Maywa Montenegro de WitDepartment of Environmental Studies, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 99-136 | Published online: 14 Dec 2020

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