Cultivating food or cultivating citizens? On the governance and potential of community gardens in Amsterdam

Bródy, Luca Sára; Wilde, Mandy de

doi:10.1080/13549839.2020.1730776

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“…Furthermore, urban agriculture projects also require planning, policymaking, and supporting management. The success of these projects depends on the continuous interactions of actors in the network of government, non-governmental, and public organizations on micro and macro scales (Bródy & Wilde, 2020). The existence of a land management plan, including maintenance, division of tasks and responsibilities, and providing educational and technical assistance in the field of horticulture, is among the things that require planning, management, and budgeting (Cohen & Reynolds, 2015;Drake & Lawson, 2014;Glover, 2004;Teig et al, 2009).…”

Section: Social Security and Public Trustmentioning

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An assessment of the feasibility of initiating urban agriculture in Pardis New Town of Iran

Hedayatifard

Azimi

2023

Urban Agric & Regnl Food Sys

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Initiation of urban agriculture in small‐scale urban areas not only serves an ecological function but has also become one of the most important measures in urban management for increasing the sociocultural capital and the mental and physical health of citizens through providing a site for the social relations of the urban population. Community gardens have become especially important in Iranian new towns, which are facing severe social challenges. This research attempts to evaluate the possibility of initiating a community garden in Pardis New Town using the qualitative approach and content analysis of interviews, focus group meetings, as well as online survey. Research findings have shown that despite the short period of residence in the Pardis New Town, due to the background of local and self‐organized communal activities to create a green neighborhood, the relatively adequate skills of residents in agriculture and gardening through work experience in their previous places of residence, and declaration of readiness to engage in volunteer activities, the conditions are favorable for the initiation of a community garden and for its bottom‐up management in collaboration with official institutions. The findings of the analysis have identified the strategic requirements in the areas of design and management of community gardens.

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Section: Social Security and Public Trustmentioning

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An assessment of the feasibility of initiating urban agriculture in Pardis New Town of Iran

Hedayatifard

Azimi

2023

Urban Agric & Regnl Food Sys

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“…This contrasts with literature, which sees citizenship in relation to political conflicts about the production and governance of urban space. Authors who draw on critical studies of neoliberal urbanism, or the Foucauldian concept of “governmentality,” have interpreted steward-citizenship as the transfer of public tasks to communities and individuals (Brody and De Wilde 2020; Fraser et al, 2015; Pudup, 2008; Rosol, 2012). Accordingly, such politics operate through discursive and affective techniques which socialize people into citizen-subjects who accommodate themselves actively to the imperatives of governmental programs.…”

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Stewardship practice and the performance of citizenship: Greening tree-pits in the streets of Berlin

Lachmund

2022

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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Hands-on activities of shaping and maintaining urban public green spaces, in short, “stewardship,” have become a flourishing field of civic engagement. It is the aim of this article to find out how citizenship is enacted in the everyday practice of stewardship, and how such an analysis can benefit from theories of “material participation” and “practice.” It explores this theme through a case study of the greening of tree-pits in Berlin. The article asks: (1) how people, through their doing of stewardship, engage with the tangible places that they take care of, and (2) how connections between stewardship, its focal places, and other practices shape and sustain wider public concerns. Thereby, it identifies three intersecting and materially grounded “civic nexuses of practices,” which each imply specific constructions of citizenship: civic neighboring, managed volunteering, and political mobilization. It explores how each of these nexuses emerges from the convergence of practices around the tree-pit, and probes the tensions and conflicts that they entail. In contrast to authors who have either cherished stewardship as a form of citizen empowerment, or, in line with Foucauldian governmentality studies, as the formation of governable citizen-subjects, the article emphasizes the politically ambiguous dynamics through which stewards practice their citizenship.

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“…Como desventaja, tienen dificultades para generar un mayor sentido de pertenencia y de corresponsabilidad entre los hortelanos para la gestión y el cuidado de los espacios para cultivar (Prové et al, 2015). En contraposición, las estructuras de gobernanza bottom-up cuentan con un mayor poencial para constituirse como espacios democráticos e inclusivos, gozando de una mayor autonomía para definir sus propias reglas, modalidades de trabajo y espacios para la toma de decisiones, impulsando así un mayor sentido de pertenencia de los participantes (Eizenberg, 2012;Bródy & de Wilde, 2020). Como desventaja, pueden tener problemas cuando la iniciativa no obtiene un amplio reconocimiento por parte de las instituciones y otros actores de la sociedad civil externos a las comunidades de usuarios, situando las iniciativas en la informalidad, y limitando así su impacto y su capacidad de mantenimiento en el tiempo por falta de mecanismos de apoyo (Prové et al, 2015).…”

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Chaves Da Governação Das Hortas Urbanas Comunitárias: Lições Aprendidas Com O Projecto Ru:rban Na Cidade De Uma Coruña

Cabeza

2022

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Escasas investigaciones se han realizado sobre la gobernanza de los huertos urbanos comunitarios, lo cual puede suponer una limitación a la hora de definir mecanismos de apoyo para su implementación y sostenibilidad en el tiempo. En este contexto, el objetivo de esta investigación es identificar instrumentos y recursos de utilidad para su gobernanza. Para alcanzar este objetivo, se realizó una revisión de literatura sobre la gobernanza de los huertos urbanos comunitarios, y un análisis de la participación de la ciudad de A Coruña (España) en el proyecto europeo Ru:rban, el cual busca transferir las buenas prácticas del modelo de gestión de huertos urbanos de la ciudad de Roma. El análisis de la participación de A Coruña en el proyecto se realizó a partir de un marco analítico sobre cuestiones relativas a las estructuras de gobernanza de estas iniciativas, mientras que los datos sobre la participación de la ciudad en el proyecto se obtuvieron mediante entrevistas con actores involucrados, asistencia a eventos y revisión de documentos. A partir de este análisis, se concluyó que el mejor modelo de gobernanza para los huertos urbanos comunitarios se basa en la colaboración y generación de sinergias entre los usuarios organizados y el gobierno local, donde los usuarios se encargan de la organización y el mantenimiento de los huertos, y el gobierno local de apoyarlos con recursos, políticas de formación y el establecimiento de una regulación que estipule derechos y obligaciones para el conjunto de los actores involucrados.

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Cultivating food or cultivating citizens? On the governance and potential of community gardens in Amsterdam

Cited by 12 publications

References 35 publications

An assessment of the feasibility of initiating urban agriculture in Pardis New Town of Iran

An assessment of the feasibility of initiating urban agriculture in Pardis New Town of Iran

Stewardship practice and the performance of citizenship: Greening tree-pits in the streets of Berlin

Chaves Da Governação Das Hortas Urbanas Comunitárias: Lições Aprendidas Com O Projecto Ru:rban Na Cidade De Uma Coruña

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