Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Community Gardening: From Leisure to Social Action; 2 Garden Views: Seeing Community Gardens as Sites of Social Change; 3 Theorising Collective Action; 4 Community Gardening as Activism; 5 In The Garden; 6 Growing Community; 7 Producing Culture; 8 Creation: The Politics of Direct Action and Prefiguration; 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary
Drawing on case studies and social movement theory Claire Nettle provides a new empirical and theoretical understanding of community gardening by applying a contextual framework that considers the activity as a way for people to engage in collective social action. Through this a richer, more complete understanding of community gardening as a form of social activity and of its potential contributions to activism, community, democracy and culture can be reached
