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Chris Smaje

Chris Smaje has coworked a small farm in Somerset, southwest England, for the last 17 years. Previously, he was a university-based social scientist, working in the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey and the Department of Anthropology at Goldsmiths College on aspects of social policy, social identities and the environment. Since switching focus to the practice and politics of agroecology, he's written for various publications, such as The Land , Dark Mountain , Permaculture magazine and Statistics Views, as well as academic journals such as Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems and the Journal of Consumer Culture . Smaje writes the blog Small Farm Future, is a featured author at www.resilience.org and a current director of the Ecological Land Co-op. Chris' latest book is: A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity, and a Shared Earth.

Insulate Britain protest

Insulate Britain: Notes from Back Home

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

There are going to be people denying the existence of climate change or saying that we should redress it with next-generation nuclear energy or working-class revolutionary struggle until the waves close over their heads.

  • October 4, 2021
A Small Farm Future

Household farming and the F word

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

I’ve taken it upon myself to project a small farm future, not to produce some social blueprint of appropriate living arrangements as determined by myself.

  • September 15, 2021
A Small Farm Future

Our household farming future

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

A couple of posts back Greg Reynolds suggested I might write some short declarative sentences about my case for household farming, which struck me as a good idea. So here’s my best shot at it.

  • September 1, 2021
XR action in London

Climate justice and a community of communities

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

In my brief time with XR in London I saw a lot of people from many different social positionings interacting with each other around climate activism – a community of communities seeking common ground.

  • August 26, 2021
A Small Farm Future

Nobody is real: A Small Farm Future meets A People’s Green New Deal

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

Nobody is real. Or everybody is. What’s real is how we have to make a material livelihood, and in this people are a lot more constrained by the ecological feedback of the world around them than most currents of modern political thought seem to believe.

  • August 3, 2021
A Small Farm Future

Commons and households in a small farm future

By Chris Smaje, Small Farm Future

To what extent does the peasant way inherently impose certain kinds of social structure, to what extent can we now exercise different choices over those structures, and how might peasant societies of the future differ from or resemble ones of the past?

  • July 22, 2021
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