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1 online resource |
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Spaces and practices of justice |
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Front Cover -- Half-title -- Series page -- The Practice of Collective Escape: Politics, Justice and Community in Urban Growing Projects -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- A meadow in winter, a garden in spring -- Communal growing projects -- Collective escape -- Cultivating communal life -- Politics and growing -- Common garden justice -- Time, place, practice -- Researching community growing projects -- 2 Urban Growing in Glasgow -- Dear green place -- Growing Glasgow -- A burnt-out tenement gap site |
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An abandoned council playing field -- From Glasgow to the world -- 3 The Rhythms of Urban Escape -- 'A depressurizing chamber' -- Rhythm as a heuristic -- Escaping into valued labour -- Against, in and beyond work -- Working within the austere state -- Getting beyond consumption at the meadow -- A different rhythm in the city -- Seasonality -- Urgency versus longevity -- The question of collective rhythm -- 4 Who Gets to Escape? -- Boundary work -- Grassroots and questions of representation -- 'Not a race thing, but a class divide' -- 'Everybody's space' -- The middle class and the other |
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The assumed universality of the outdoors -- Female labour and the mothers' campaign -- On 'garden babies' and defensive masculinity -- The limits of inclusion -- 5 Ownership, Autonomy and the Commons -- Staking claim to history -- Reimagining the city -- Contested neighbourhoods, diverging narratives -- Land use, land value, land use value -- Common ownership, open ground -- Transgressions of the collective imaginary -- Considering commoning -- The politics of alterity and autonomy -- From the commons to community -- 6 Escape into Responsibility -- Like 'littering in your back garden' |
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The idea of community -- Imagining community, practising care -- Common garden friendships -- In-group, out-group -- Fragmentary meadow boundaries -- Responsibility and justice -- The attitude of 'yes, we can' -- 7 Field Dynamics and Strategic Neutrality -- Playing the field -- Oppositional organizing at the meadow -- Keeping things private -- Organizational responses to field pressures -- The importance of non-alignment -- 8 The Political Imagination of Common Justice -- Ambiguity, interpretations and imaginations -- Garden variety politics -- Subjective politicization -- A common justice thing |
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A temporalized politics, or politics over time -- 9 Escape, Crisis and Social Change -- Communal growing projects over time -- Evolving challenges -- Emerging crises -- Emergency food in unprecedented times -- 10 Conclusion -- Community, politics, justice -- The afterlives of growing -- Open terrain -- For the gardens to come -- Notes -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- References -- Index |
| Summary |
Escape is an enticing idea in contemporary cities across the world. Austerity, climate breakdown and spatial stigma have led to retreatist behaviours such as gated communities, enclave urbanism and white flight. By contrast, urban community growing projects are often considered by practitioners and commentators as communal havens in a stressful cityscape. Drawing on ethnographic research in urban growing projects in Glasgow, this book explores the spatial politics and dynamics of community, asking who benefits from such projects and how they relate to the wider city. A timely consideration of localism and community empowerment, the book sheds light on key issues of urban land use, the right to the city and the value of social connection |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 14, 2023) |
| Subject |
Community gardens -- Scotland -- Glasgow
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Community gardens -- Social aspects
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Urban renewal.
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Community gardens.
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urban renewal.
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community gardens.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
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Community gardens.
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Urban renewal.
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Scotland -- Glasgow.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781529220711 |
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1529220718 |
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9781529220704 |
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152922070X |
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