Urban Gardening As Politics
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Urban Gardening As Politics
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Author : Chiara Tornaghi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-07-11
Urban Gardening As Politics written by Chiara Tornaghi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-07-11 with Business & Economics categories.
While most of the existing literature on community gardens and urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view or a rather dismissive approach on the grounds of the co-optation of food growing, self-help and voluntarism to the neoliberal agenda, this collection investigates and reflects on the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of these initiatives. It questions to what extent they address social inequality and injustice and interrogates them as forms of political agency that contest, transform and re-signify ‘the urban’. Claims for land access, the right to food, the social benefits of city greening/community conviviality, and insurgent forms of planning, are multiplying within policy, advocacy and academic literature; and are becoming increasingly manifested through the practice of urban gardening. These claims are symptomatic of the way issues of social reproduction intersect with the environment, as well as the fact that urban planning and the production of space remains a crucial point of an ever-evolving debate on equity and justice in the city. Amid a mushrooming over positive literature, this book explores the initiatives of urban gardening critically rather than apologetically. The contributors acknowledge that these initiatives are happening within neoliberal environments, which promote –among other things - urban competition, the dismantling of the welfare state, the erasure of public space and ongoing austerity. These initiatives, thus, can either be manifestation of new forms of solidarity, political agency and citizenship or new tools for enclosure, inequality and exclusion. In designing this book, the progressive stance of these initiatives has therefore been taken as a research question, rather than as an assumption. The result is a collection of chapters that explore potentials and limitations of political gardening as a practice to envision and implement a more sustainable and just city.
Community Gardening As Social Action
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Author : Claire Nettle
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-05-23
Community Gardening As Social Action written by Claire Nettle and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-23 with Philosophy categories.
There has been a resurgence of community gardening over the past decade with a wide range of actors seeking to get involved, from health agencies aiming to increase fruit and vegetable consumption to radical social movements searching for symbols of non-capitalist ways of relating and occupying space. Community gardens have become a focal point for local activism in which people are working to contribute to food security, question the erosion of public space, conserve and improve urban environments, develop technologies of sustainable food production, foster community engagement and create neighbourhood solidarity. Drawing on in-depth case studies and social movement theory, Claire Nettle provides a new empirical and theoretical understanding of community gardening as a site of collective social action. This provides not only a more nuanced and complete understanding of community gardening, but also highlights its potential challenges to notions of activism, community, democracy and culture.
Urban Gardening And The Struggle For Social And Spatial Justice
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Author : Chiara Certomà
language : en
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Release Date : 2019-02-25
Urban Gardening And The Struggle For Social And Spatial Justice written by Chiara Certomà and has been published by Manchester University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-25 with Social Science categories.
The book presents an in-depth and theoretically-grounded analysis of urban gardening practices (re)emerging worldwide as new forms of bottom-up socio-political participation. By complementing the scholarly perspectives through posing real cases, it focuses on how these practices are able to address – together with environmental and planning questions – the most fundamental issues of spatial justice, social cohesion, inclusiveness, social innovations and equity in cities. Through a critical exploration of international case studies, this collection investigates whether, and how, gardeners are willing and able to contrast urban spatial arrangements that produce peculiar forms of social organisation and structures for inclusion and exclusion, by considering pervasive inequalities in the access to space, natural resources and services, as well as considerable disparities in living conditions.
Ethics And Politics Of The Built Environment
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Author : Marcello Di Paola
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-09
Ethics And Politics Of The Built Environment written by Marcello Di Paola and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-09 with Philosophy categories.
This book proposes and defends the practice of urban gardening as an ecologically and socially beneficial, culturally innovative, morally appropriate, ethically uplifting, and politically incisive way for individuals and variously networked collectives to contribute to a successful management of some defining challenges of the Anthropocene – this new epoch in which no earthly place, form, entity, process, or system escapes the reach of human activity – including urban resilience and climate change.
The Politics Of Landing
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
The Politics Of Landing written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
This dissertation illustrates how alternative food initiatives are entangled in the broader political economy of the production of space. Through a regional analysis of the land politics articulations of organized urban gardening projects in the San Francisco Bay Area, I ask what are the landscapes of possibility or closure resulting from these entanglements. Historically urban gardening has been used as a temporary land use to ameliorate various social problems until the land owner, either public or private, chose to put the land to different use, most frequently the use that gained the highest market value. In the Bay Area, where land markets are highly competitive, land access is a central concern for gardeners. Urban agriculture has been theorized and embraced by social movement activists as a means to resist the allocation of land based on market valuation and the realization of the authority of property ownership. Yet, through research based on semi-structured interviews with gardeners and city officials, documents analysis, and participant observation, this dissertation describes a more complex terrain of activist engagements in the practices of land access and enactments of property. Two dominant imaginaries of land politics emerge from these engagements. One emphasizes the need for flexible, even portable gardens, in order to cultivate more resilient cities and movements. This imaginary is ultimately facilitative of development priorities, supporting neoliberal urban regimes, and reaffirming of contemporary property relations. The second imaginary identifies the importance of long-term tenure, community-management of land resources, and developing movement coalitions concerned with land access. This imaginary connects with the international work of food sovereignty, a framework that gardeners and US food movement activists are increasingly adopting, and which works to resist neoliberal capitalism, colonial legacies, and top-down governance. I suggest that the everyday utopian projects of gardeners is a key site to understanding the US left questioning if reforming contemporary social democratic institutions, like the provision of public space, are sufficient strategies. This analysis contributes to the developing field of urban political ecology by describing socio-ecological space in the Bay Region as socially produced through a history of practices, representations, and experiences of gardeners.
Agropolis
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Author : Luc J. A. Mougeot
language : en
Publisher: IDRC
Release Date : 2005
Agropolis written by Luc J. A. Mougeot and has been published by IDRC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Political Science categories.
Urban agriculture is an increasingly popular practice in cities worldwide, and a sustainable future for it is critical, especially for the urban poor of the developing world.
Global Urban Agriculture
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Author : Antoinette M G A WinklerPrins
language : en
Publisher: CABI
Release Date : 2017-05-24
Global Urban Agriculture written by Antoinette M G A WinklerPrins and has been published by CABI this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-24 with Technology & Engineering categories.
There has been growing attention paid to urban agriculture worldwide because of its role in making cities more environmentaly sustainable while also contributing to enhanced food access and social justice. This edited volume brings together current research and case studies concerning urban agriculture from both the Global North and the Global South. Its objective is to help bridge the long-standing divide between discussion of urban agriculture in the Global North and the Global South and to demonstrate that today there are greater areas of overlap than there are differences both theoretically and substantively, and that research in either area can help inform research in the other. The book covers the nature of urban agriculture and how it supports livelihoods, provides ecosystem services, and community development. It also considers urban agriculture and social capital, networks, and agro-biodiversity conservation. Concepts such as sustainability, resilience, adaptation and community, and the value of urban agriculture as a recreational resource are explored. It also examines, quite fundamentally, why people farm in the city and how urban agriculture can contribute to more sustainable cities in both the Global North and the Global South.
Radical Gardening
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Author : George McKay
language : en
Publisher: Frances Lincoln
Release Date : 2011-05-17
Radical Gardening written by George McKay and has been published by Frances Lincoln this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05-17 with Social Science categories.
War is the natural occupation of man … war-and gardening. - Winston Churchill to Siegfried Sassoon, 1918 In the common public perception, contemporary gardening is understood as suburban, as leisure activity, as television makeover opportunity. Its origins are seen as religious or spiritual (Garden of Eden), military (the clipped lawn, the ha-ha and defensive ditches), aristocratic or monarchical (the stately home, the Royal Horticultural Society). Radical Gardening travels an alternative route, through history and across landscape, linking propagation with propaganda. For everyday garden life is not only patio, barbecue, white picket fence, topiary, herbaceous border.… From window box to veggie box, from political plot to flower power, this book uncovers and celebrates moments, movements, gestures, of a people's approach to gardens and gardening. It weaves together garden history with the counterculture, stories of individual plants with discussion of government policy, the social history of campaign groups with the pleasure and dirt of hands in the earth, as well as original interviews alongside media, pop and art references, to offer an informing and inspiring new take on an old subject.
Incorporating Change
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Author : Michael Stephen Jamison
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Incorporating Change written by Michael Stephen Jamison and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Agriculture and state categories.
From The Ground Up
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Author : Efrat Eizenberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
From The Ground Up written by Efrat Eizenberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Social Science categories.
Little-known, and hidden between skyscrapers and wide avenues, some 650 community gardens dot New York City. Set within one of the densest and most expensive real estate markets, these gardens are attended by some of the least advantaged residents of the city. Urban residents use these spaces for horticulture, recreation, social gatherings, and artistic and cultural events. They manage the gardens collectively and with relative independence from top-down control. Despite continuous threats from market forces the gardens have been able to thrive as significant community spaces since the 1970s. This book shows how, in the process of attempting to protect these highly contested spaces, residents developed as community leaders and urban activists. Taking an interdisciplinary approach to follow the political development of urban residents, the book examines how everyday spatial practices, social interactions, the production of alternative urban space, and the generation of new urban knowledge render community gardeners into important social actors in the urban scene. The book argues that with this process of production of space a new type of ’organic resident’ evolves. These urbanites constantly engage with their urban environment, find ways to make the city more supportive for their collective needs, and produce the city in their own image. Community gardeners as organic residents claim their right to the city, act to materialize their vision of the city, and utilize the special potential of the locale to constitute themselves as powerful social actors on the urban scene.