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Community Gardening as Social Action

Community Gardening as Social Action

ByClaire Nettle
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 23 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.4324/9781315572970
Pages 272 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315572970
SubjectsGeography, Politics & International Relations, Social Sciences
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Nettle, C. (2014). Community Gardening as Social Action. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315572970

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.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|16 pages
Community Gardening: From Leisure to Social Action
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chapter 2|26 pages
Garden Views: Seeing Community Gardens as Sites of Social Change
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chapter 3|15 pages
Theorising Collective Action
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chapter 4|26 pages
Community Gardening as Activism
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chapter 5|31 pages
In The Garden
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chapter 6|30 pages
Growing Community
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chapter 7|24 pages
Producing Culture
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chapter 8|28 pages
Creation: The Politics of Direct Action and Prefiguration
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chapter 9|8 pages
Conclusion
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