Benjamin Jewell is a Ph.D. student in anthropology at Arizona State University. in 2011 he received a Dissertation Fieldwork Grant to conduct research on 'Filling the Vacuum with Gardens: The Political Economy of Food Access in Detroit, Michigan,' supervised by Dr. Amber Elisabeth Wutich. In late 2011 we contacted him to ask him to shed some light on the moral economy at work underneath Detroit's urban agriculture movement and how it's affecting the city's social and political landscape.

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