Urban Community Gardens as Spaces of Citizenship

Ghose, Rina; Pettygrove, Margaret

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“…Within this new understanding of community, ideas of space and time shift, from structuring factors such as the geographical territory of the neighbourhood and the clock time that signals work and play (Crow et al 2002), to a more fluid and dynamic construction associated with the performance of social relationships, such as those found in CSAs (Warde 2005;Pollan 2008;Carolan 2011;Bastian 2014;Ghose and Pettygrove 2014). This is well illustrated by the work of Flora and Bregendahl (2012), on the application of the Community Capitals Framework to collaborative Community Supported Agriculture.…”

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The spaces and times of community farming

Liu

Gilchrist

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This paper uses a multiple case study approach to researching people's everyday lives and experiences of six community farms and gardens in diverse settings in China and England. We argue that collective understandings of community are bound up in everyday action in particular spaces and times. Successful community farms and gardens are those that are able to provide suitable spaces and times for these actions so that their members can enjoy multiple benefit streams. These benefits are largely universal: in very different situations in both England and China, CSA members make strong connections with the land, the farmers and other members, even in cases where they rarely visit the farms and gardens. This suggests that community farming and gardening initiatives possess multi-dimensional transformational potential. Not only do they offer a buffer against industrialised and remote food systems, but they also represent therapeutic landscapes valued by those who have experienced time spent at or in connection with them. Our findings indicate that-regardless of location or cultural context-these benefits are durable, so that people who have been engaged in multiple activities at a community farm or garden continue to enjoy these benefits long after most of their engagement has ceased.

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Section: Spaces and Times As Organising Conceptsmentioning

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The spaces and times of community farming

Liu

Gilchrist

Taylor³

et al. 2016

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“…A totality of nineteen studies involve research from the US [2], [3], [7], [8], [55], [57][58][59], [61][62][63][64], [66], [68][69][70][71][72][73][74], six studies from Europe (three from the UK [1], [12], [75], two from Germany (Berlin) [5], [76] and one from Croatia [77]), four from Canada [56], [57], [65], [78], and four from Australia [4], [10], [67], [79]. This confirms a general tendency of a disproportionate mass of research from the US on urban community gardening, compared to Europe and elsewhere.…”

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“…This confirms a general tendency of a disproportionate mass of research from the US on urban community gardening, compared to Europe and elsewhere. Furthermore, 27 studies are qualitative studies [1][2][3][4][5], [7], [10], [18], [56], [58], [59], [61], [62], [65][66][67][68][69][70][71], [73], [76]- [79], five studies are mixed-methods research [12], [63], [64], [72], [75], while only three articles comprises of mainly or entirely quantitative data [8], [55], [57].…”

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Seeding Social Capital? Urban Community Gardening and Social Capital

Christensen¹

2017

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There is a continuing debate regarding urban community gardening's benefits to local communities, and a particularly interesting branch of this debate has focused on community gardens capacity to encourage and facilitate social interaction, which may generate social capital. Social capital is an increasingly important concept in international research and measures of social capital have been associated with various measures of health. In a meta-analysis of literature published between 2000 and 2016 regarding community gardens' social advantages, through the lens of the concept of social capital, it is demonstrated that several studies substantiate that urban community gardens create social capital, both bonding and bridging, and exhibit indications of linking. It is moreover identified how there is much to be learned from future research, illuminating how urban community gardens can foster social capital, and thus benefit cities and local communities. The meta-analysis finds that mixed methods approaches can enrich future research on how urban community gardens can foster social capital, and thus benefit cities and local communities. Particular promising would be using qualitative methods that focus on the meanings ascribed to urban garden's activities in combination with documenting the sociodemographic, ethnic, and cultural composition of the volunteers and gardeners, in comparison with the local neighborhood in general. The analysis' findings furthermore implicates there is much to be learned from more focus on the structural dimensions of social capital, in addition to the cognitive dimensions, as this would yield a more nuanced depiction of social advantages of urban community gardening.

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“…Since then, research on community gardens suggests a wide range of benefits for both gardeners and the community (Armstrong, 2000). Benefits ranging from reducing local crime (Gold, 1976;Malt 1972;Baker, 1997), empowering residents and building social capital (Bjornson, 1994;Ferris et al, 2001;Kweon et al, 1998;Kuo and Sullivan, 1998;Landman, 1993;Schmelzkopf, 1995), providing a food alternative for urban food insecurity (Hlubik and Hamm, 1994;Pinderhughes, 2003;Rauber, 1997), functioning as urban commons where minority residents collectively produce space to resist or provide alternatives to capitalist social relations (Eizenberg, 2012;Ghose & Pettygrove, 2014), to being sites of grassroots citizenship practice and place-based community development (Armstrong, 2000;Baker, 2004;Kurtz 2001;Macias 2008;Schmelzkopf 1995;Staeheli et al 2002). Growing literature on community gardens continues to highlight the advantages of community gardens as a form of urban agriculture.…”

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Examining Sense of Place For Marginalized Communities in Community Gardens

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Urban Community Gardens as Spaces of Citizenship

Cited by 180 publications

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The spaces and times of community farming

The spaces and times of community farming

Seeding Social Capital? Urban Community Gardening and Social Capital

Examining Sense of Place For Marginalized Communities in Community Gardens

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