Rethinking the nature of urban environmental politics: Security, subjectivity, and the non-human

Grove, Kevin

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.09.005

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“…The practice of creating greenspace may forge identities and reproduce inequalities (Grove, 2009). For example, possibilities for water sports, a typically Dutch activity, are often provided in Dutch natural areas, while collecting products such as nuts and fruits, an activity practiced in various ways by all studied ethnic groups, is generally forbidden, even though both activities may have hazardous ecological effects.…”

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Beyond Ethnic Stereotypes – Identities and Outdoor Recreation Among Immigrants and Nonimmigrants in the Netherlands

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Studies on immigrants' recreational use of greenspace have tended to focus on ethnic groups as homogeneous entities. In a qualitative study based on group interviews, this article focuses on the cultural diversity among and within ethnic groups. We used an identity perspective to study outdoor recreation of young Dutch adults with Chinese, Turkish, or nonimmigrant backgrounds. Results show that primarily personal identities, age, and ethnicity inform recreational behavior. The multiplicity of peoples' identities results in more heterogeneity between and within ethnic groups, as well as more homogeneity between immigrants and nonimmigrants, than commonly described. When immigrants are considered as a homogeneous group that underparticipates in outdoor recreation, individual immigrants who frequently participate in outdoor recreation are overlooked. Furthermore, we show that acculturation does not progress at the same rate among all ethnic groups, and that ethnic identity may be sustained among second and subsequent generations through certain recreational activities.

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Beyond Ethnic Stereotypes – Identities and Outdoor Recreation Among Immigrants and Nonimmigrants in the Netherlands

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“…They fail to acknowledge diffuse and distributed notions of power and resistance that scholars of African urban environments have elicited (Lawhon et al, 2014). Postcolonial and poststructuralist insights from the urban South are also missed, where fundamental concerns emerge around the negotiation of diverse identities, knowledges, everyday practices and ways of knowing urban spaces (Lawhon et al, 2014; see also Grove, 2009). Lawhon et al (2014) argue one way to broaden the theoretical scope of UPE analyses is for a 'situated UPE' that heeds these inter-subjectivities, contestations, and diffuse power relations.…”

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Everyday human (in)securities in protected urban nature – Collaborative conservation at Macassar/Wolfgat dunes nature reserves, Cape Town, South Africa

Graham

2015

Geoforum

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“…For example, as Robinson (2000) shows, the relationships of women housing managers with tenants include both friends and tenant -owner, and these relations are situated, dynamic, individual, and personal. The relationship is more than just a '"This phrase can be found in Braun and Wainwright (2001) and Grove (2009), although it is less central to their analysis. specific category, but built upon interactions developing over time and responsive to changing circumstances.…”

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Relational Power in the Governance of a South African E-Waste Transition

Lawhon

2012

Environ Plan A

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Transition studies attempts to explain sociotechnical change over time and to develop policy prescriptions to help guide transitions towards more sustainable outcomes. While this literature has made significant contributions to our understanding of transitions and achieving greater sustainability, most transition theory and practice overlooks the central role of power in shaping tbe direction and outcomes of transitions. In this paper I apply the transitions framework to electronic waste (e-waste) management in South Africa, and assess the attempts to instigate and guide a transition through the establishment of an industry-led e-waste association. I use a relational-political-ecological approach in which I show how power is built relationally through particular engagements between members of tbe e-waste association and with others outside the association. I describe tbe attempts by the association to extend power and the strategies employed by members to resist or reconstruct tbis relationship. While stakeholders' concerns witb the e-waste association are various, I focus on articulating their responses, specifically actions whieh revise their particular way of relating to tbe association. I group these into three main responses: (i) establishing a new connection or disengaging from the network; (ii) frustrated participation and/or reformed expectations; and (iii) establishing an altemative network. My analysis of relational power in the process of attempting to guide a transition is intended to show a new way of incorporating conceptualizations of power into transition studies to increase its tbeoretieal rigour and enhanee its potential to make positive contributions towards achieving a just sustainability.

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Rethinking the nature of urban environmental politics: Security, subjectivity, and the non-human

Cited by 64 publications

References 30 publications

Beyond Ethnic Stereotypes – Identities and Outdoor Recreation Among Immigrants and Nonimmigrants in the Netherlands

Beyond Ethnic Stereotypes – Identities and Outdoor Recreation Among Immigrants and Nonimmigrants in the Netherlands

Everyday human (in)securities in protected urban nature – Collaborative conservation at Macassar/Wolfgat dunes nature reserves, Cape Town, South Africa

Relational Power in the Governance of a South African E-Waste Transition

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