ABSTRACT
In my chapter, I build on current thinking on “everyday environmentalism” and feminist and critical race theories of how everydayness, and hopes and troubles are unevenly distributed by race, gender, and class. I take outreach activities of the Women’s Environmental Network – workshops and walking tours around food growing spaces in Tower Hamlets in London, the United Kingdom, as the focus for my discussion on hope and trouble. I suggest that the activities offer hopes of place-making, intercultural mixing, sharing expertise and sensory encounters and embodiment and challenge white environmentalism. At the same time, these hopes and activities can be troubled by devastating colonial, imperial histories, racism, exclusions, and inequalities. The chapter underlines how we cannot take the everyday – as space, temporality or habit – for granted, especially in relation to colonial and imperial history, food, and nature, because in its various modalities, the everyday is often underpinned by colonial and imperial histories and legacies.
