Radical roots and twenty-first century realities: rediscovering the egalitarian aspirations of Land Grant University Extension

Ostrom, Marcia

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“…He suggested Habermas's concept of communicative action as the foundation for efforts to establish public spaces for ethical deliberation among scientists and university administrators. Several other AHV journal authors over the 40 years have focused on public science and particularly the role of land grant universities (e.g., Ostrom, 2020;Woodward 2009;Ganning et al 2012).…”

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Local food systems, citizen and public science, empowered communities, and democracy: hopes deserving to live

Lacy

2022

Agric Hum Values

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Since 1984, the AHV journal has provided a key forum for a community of interdisciplinary, international researchers, educators, and policy makers to analyze and debate core issues, values and hopes facing the nation and the world, and to recommend strategies and actions for addressing them. This agenda includes the more specific challenges and opportunities confronting agriculture, food systems, science, and communities, as well as broader contextual issues and grand challenges. This paper draws extensively on 40 years of AHV journal articles and reviews and begins with a focus on a limited number of key grand challenges (climate change and global warming; threats to democracy and the growing neo-nationalism, populism, and authoritarianism; and increasing national and international inequality). With these challenges as the underlining context, the remainder of the paper addresses core journal themes of sustainable agriculture and local food systems, citizen and public science, and empowered communities. Highlighted are numerous important journal contributions to the analyses and recommendations to address these hopes and themes. I conclude that these themes and hopes not only deserve to live but are essential for changing and redirecting an unsustainable and destructive environmental, economic, political and social agenda to a viable, livable and just democratic society.

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Local food systems, citizen and public science, empowered communities, and democracy: hopes deserving to live

Lacy

2022

Agric Hum Values

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“…Early founders espoused a more progressive vision of Extension, championing public education, conservation, experimentation, and civic engagement (Bailey 1903(Bailey , 1915Smith 1949;Peters 2006Peters , 2014Ostrom 2020). In her 2020 Presidential address to the Society for Agriculture and Human Values, "Radical Roots and twenty-first Century Realities," Marcia Ostrom states that:…”

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“…Many Extension professionals embrace this broader public mission in various ways: promoting sustainable community food systems, including excluded groups, and partnering with organizations that advocate for the disenfranchised. Ostrom (2020) writes that "efforts to address inequalities of access are gaining momentum" in Extension and deserve more analysis (941). Some seek to make democracy work by facilitating conversations around contentious issues and building capacities to engage in democratic decision-making (Goerlich and Walker 2015;Peters et al 2018).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Extension agents are on the front lines of responding pragmatically to a wide array of demands generated by the inability of prevailing economic frameworks and social systems to meet human needs and Extension has a historic opportunity to do much more. I want to foreground Extension in discussions of transition, amplifying and extending calls from Extension professionals and scholar-practitioners for an expansive conception of Extension's mission as new public funds come online for precisely these purposes (Ostrom 2020;Peters 2021). Extension has unique relevance for its embeddedness in communities, competence across diverse social and economic domains, its public mission, and its strengths in popular education, networking, and capacity building.…”

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Liberation extension: building capacities for civilizational transition

Copeland

2022

Agric Hum Values

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COVID 19 has exacerbated and underscored structural inequalities and endemic vulnerabilities in food, economic, and social systems, compounding concerns about environmental sustainability and racial and economic justice. Convergent crises have amplified a growing chorus of voices and movements calling for new thinking and new practices to adapt to these shifts, mitigate their impact, and address their root causes through far reaching changes in social and economic life and values, including breaking with the free market paradigm. In the face of a historic choice between transition or multiple systems collapse that deepen injustice and threaten planetary survival, I make the case for expanding on liberatory tendencies in Extension programs to build capacities for response-ability to transition toward more just and sustainable futures.

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“…With over 20 years having passed since the Kellogg Commission's 1999 call to reevaluate engagement, Ostrom (2020) argued that the future of extension should be readdressed as institutions adapt to the 21st century. According to Ostrom (2020), one of the challenges facing Extension universities is what the public thinks extension means. However, as da Cruz (2018) highlighted, engaged scholarship has multiple meanings and has undergone many name changes over time, contributing to the dilemma of what constitutes engaged scholarship.…”

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Road Map to the Future of Engagement for Both Land-Grant and Non-Land-Grant Institutions

Pruitt¹

2022

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When planning a long trip, the first thing most of us do is consult a road map (in digital form today) to chart the best route and determine how long it will take to get to our destination. For those traveling the community-engaged scholarship path, that road map is becoming clearer than ever as we make our way through the ins and outs and ups and downs of the movement. As we join hands and look down the road through the many directions of community-engaged scholarship, our future looks very bright indeed. As one who has been an engagement advocate for the past 20 years, I believe an argument can be made that the success of higher education depends to a large degree on a strong commitment to community-engaged scholarship. It’s that basic and that important. While some colleges and universities struggle to gain the essential public and governmental trust that they need to thrive, a trust we once could take for granted, we are entering a period of greater support, vision, execution, and clarity, thanks to the nationwide commitment to engaged scholarship.

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Radical roots and twenty-first century realities: rediscovering the egalitarian aspirations of Land Grant University Extension

Cited by 9 publications

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Local food systems, citizen and public science, empowered communities, and democracy: hopes deserving to live

Local food systems, citizen and public science, empowered communities, and democracy: hopes deserving to live

Liberation extension: building capacities for civilizational transition

Road Map to the Future of Engagement for Both Land-Grant and Non-Land-Grant Institutions

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