{"id":6675,"date":"2025-06-11T12:49:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/?p=6675"},"modified":"2025-06-11T12:49:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T11:49:39","slug":"new-book-by-uwes-dr-stephen-hunt-explores-land-liberation-and-ecology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/new-book-by-uwes-dr-stephen-hunt-explores-land-liberation-and-ecology\/","title":{"rendered":"New book by UWE\u2019s Dr Stephen Hunt explores land, liberation, and ecology"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We\u2019re excited to share that <em>We Must Begin with the Land<\/em> &#8211; a new book by Dr Stephen E. Hunt, Senior Learning Developer (Business and Law) at UWE Bristol &#8211; has just been published by Zer0 Books. The title has been added to the UWE Library catalogue and may become a valuable resource for students and staff across a range of programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this timely and thought-provoking publication, Stephen examines how we grow, share and eat food &#8211; not just as a practical issue, but as a political, ecological, and philosophical one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>About the author<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Stephen is a writer, ecological activist and radical historian. He holds a PhD in English Literature (Romantic Ecology) from UWE Bristol and continues to contribute to the field of environmental humanities. His previous works include <em>The Revolutionary Urbanism of Street Farm<\/em> and a co-edited Bloomsbury collection on ecological solidarity and the Kurdish freedom movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A social ecology of food and farming<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Framed through the anti-colonial lens of social ecology, <em>We Must Begin with the Land<\/em> explores how communities &#8211; from Wiltshire to Rojava &#8211; are reclaiming the way we think about agriculture and abundance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Through real-world case studies and radical theory, Stephen touches on:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Food sovereignty movements like La Via Campesina<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Indigenous knowledge and ecological traditions<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The promise of hemp, fungi, and seaweed in sustainable material science<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Refugee-led urban growing communities<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The surprising rise of Japanese Shumei cultivation in rural England<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As described by reviewer Dr Cl\u00e9mence Scalbert Y\u00fccel (University of Exeter), \u201cThis is a rich and nourishing work written by someone passionate about good food &#8211; good for the people, for the planet, for society.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>A must-read for changemakers<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This book offers fresh insight for those interested in agroecology, ecological democracy, and sustainable futures. \u201cA must-read for social movements struggling for emancipatory agroecologies radical ecological democracy, and food justice,\u201d says Professor Michel Pimbert (Coventry University).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Explore the book<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Available now via <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.collectiveinkbooks.com\/zer0-books\/our-books\/we-must-begin-with-land\">Zer0 Books<\/a> (\u00a315.99)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Added to the <a>UWE Library catalogue<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discover more of Stephen\u2019s work:<br><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tangentbooks.co.uk\/shop\/the-revolutionary-urbanism-of-street-farm-eco-anarchism-architecture-and-alternative-technology-in-the-1970s-by-stephen-e-hunt\">Street Farm \u2013 Tangent Books<\/a><br><a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomsbury.com\/us\/ecological-solidarity-and-the-kurdish-freedom-movement-9781793633842\/\">Ecological Solidarity \u2013 Bloomsbury<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re excited to share that We Must Begin with the Land &#8211; a new book by Dr Stephen E. Hunt, Senior Learning Developer (Business and Law) at UWE Bristol &#8211; has just been published by Zer0 Books. The title has been added to the UWE Library catalogue and may become a valuable resource for students &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/new-book-by-uwes-dr-stephen-hunt-explores-land-liberation-and-ecology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New book by UWE\u2019s Dr Stephen Hunt explores land, liberation, and ecology&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":6678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":85,"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,127,1],"tags":[17,42,62,74,75],"class_list":["post-6675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-and-law","category-research-business-innovation","category-uncategorised","tag-business","tag-innovation","tag-research","tag-uwe","tag-uwe-bristol"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6680,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6675\/revisions\/6680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uwe.ac.uk\/research-external-engagement\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}