ABSTRACT
This chapter analyzes the concept of food citizenship within the context of urban gardening from the vantage point of anthropology. It highlights questions that arise from contemporary research on urban gardeners as a way to better understand how people engage with food citizenship as a daily practice. It details how urban gardens provide for local needs in many communities, from widening food access to acting as an avenue of engagement in food politics. It argues that urban gardens may also be seen as spaces for self-making, where cultivating belonging to a territory is enacted to produce an urban terroir. Moreover, urban gardens, it is shown, may be understood as autonomous spaces that governance regimes struggle to bring under their purview. The chapter closes by suggesting that research on such alternative food procurement systems may lead us to fruitful ideas to disrupt the agri-food industrial complex.
