Building resilience and well‐being in the Margins within the City: Changing perceptions, making connections, realising potential, plugging resources leaks

Unsworth, Rachael; Ball, Sue; Bauman, Irena; Chatterton, Paul; Goldring, A.; Hill, Katie; Julier, Guy

doi:10.1080/13604813.2011.568697

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“…Julier 2005) while also engaging practically and conceptually in urban design activism (e.g. Unsworth et al 2011;Julier 2011). Since moving to Finland in 2018, he has been researching the development of Kalasatama as a rationalized landscape.…”

Section: Activist Research and Neoliberalism In Helsinkimentioning

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Growth in WEIRD Helsinki: Countering Dominant Urban Politics and its “Green” Pretentions

Berglund¹,

Julier²

2020

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Despite persistent concerns over sustainability, cities continue to be developed that serve capital more than citizens. Where urban politics prioritizes growth, "green" credentials easily turn out to be illusory. Helsinki, with its pro-environmental administration, is an example of combining "green" agendas with a culture of growth and depoliticizing debate. This essay presents two cases of this broadly ecomodernist approach. In one case this approach led to proposing the destruction of irreplaceable green space and in the other, to drawing residents into international circuits of finance and data. This problem does not just emerge from corporations and elites, however. Drawing on Harvey Molotch's idea of "the city as growth machine", we suggest that growth ideology reflects a culture that, following psychologists, we might call WEIRD: Western, Educated, Industrial, Rich and Democratic. Its claims are founded on a historically particular but widespread conception of global progress that is increasingly questioned.

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Section: Activist Research and Neoliberalism In Helsinkimentioning

confidence: 99%

Growth in WEIRD Helsinki: Countering Dominant Urban Politics and its “Green” Pretentions

Berglund¹,

Julier²

2020

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“…20, NO. 6, 818 -830, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13604813.2016 .1242240 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 The 'hidden potential' of local areas and neighbourhoods within cities has recently been the object of research demonstrating the ability of (apparently) 'interstitial' interventions to answer the needs of local communities in terms of urban regeneration Unsworth et al 2011). Examples of this kind can include the creation of collective urban gardening fields (as in Berlin's Prinzessinnengärten; Wulff 2014) or free playing fields that serve a wide category of temporary and less temporary populations (as in the case of cricket pitches in East Croydon, installed in a wasteland close to the UK Border Agency; Tonkiss 2013).…”

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“…Such initiatives have framed specific areas spatially, integrating public, private and non-profit motives. They have also sought to address environmental issues, arts and culture, and social sustainability; thereby overcoming the limitations within recent urban policy at a time of public expenditure cutbacks (Bialski et al 2015;Unsworth et al 2011). This is also the context for the restructuring of the governance of 'global north' cities, under the aegis of the austerity that followed the 2008 economic crisis (Peck 2012).…”

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“…However, the generally restricted meaning of participation in urban policy, in terms of citizens' inclusion and empowerment, as well as the ideology and implications behind it, has been the object of widespread debate since the beginning of the 2000s (Jones 2003;Raco 2000;Souza 2006;Swyngedouw, Moulaert, and Rodriguez 2002). Moving beyond institutionalised 'participatory' policies, the debate about urban regeneration has more recently focused on the initiatives of local self-organised civic networks (Bialski et al 2015), critical of the failed pro-growth strategies of the pre-crisis decades (Unsworth et al 2011). Still, these initiatives are ambiguous in so far as they often turn out to respond to 'good neoliberal citizenship by discursively appropriating neoliberal goals' (Changfoot 2007, 130) and may fail to challenge the larger structures that lead to uneven urban development (Hillbrandt and Richter 2015).…”

Section: The Changing Meaning Of Participation In Urban Regenerationmentioning

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Urban regeneration ‘from the bottom up’

Rabbiosi¹

2016

City

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Urban regeneration 'from the bottom up' Article No: CCIT1242240 Enclosures: 1) Query sheet 2) Article proofs Dear Author, 1. Please check these proofs carefully. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to check these and approve or amend them. A second proof is not normally provided. Taylor & Francis cannot be held responsible for uncorrected errors, even if introduced during the production process. Once your corrections have been added to the article, it will be considered ready for publication. Please limit changes at this stage to the correction of errors. You should not make trivial changes, improve prose style, add new material, or delete existing material at this stage. You may be charged if your corrections are excessive (we would not expect corrections to exceed 30 changes). For detailed guidance on how to check your proofs, please paste this address into a new browser window: http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/production/checkingproofs.asp Your PDF proof file has been enabled so that you can comment on the proof directly using Adobe Acrobat. If you wish to do this, please save the file to your hard disk first. For further information on marking corrections using Acrobat, please paste this address into a new browser window: http:// journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/production/acrobat.asp 2. Please review the table of contributors below and confirm that the first and last names are structured correctly and that the authors are listed in the correct order of contribution. This check is to ensure that your name will appear correctly online and when the article is indexed. Sequence Prefix Given name(s) Surname Suffix 1 Chiara Rabbiosi Queries are marked in the margins of the proofs, and you can also click the hyperlinks below. Content changes made during copy-editing are shown as tracked changes. Inserted text is in red font and revisions have a red indicator. Changes can also be viewed using the list comments function. To correct the proofs, you should insert or delete text following the instructions below, but do not add comments to the existing tracked changes.

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“…This paper follows an understanding of community gardening as a form of grassroots organisation that is enacted through networks (Ghose and Pettygrove, 2014a; Pudup, 2008; Smith and Kurtz, 2003; Unsworth et al, 2011). Scholars who have conceptualised community gardens as relying on networks, engage with structural conditions and gardeners’ agency, which allows an understanding of self-organisation as being shaped at the intersections of top-down control and bottom-up strategies.…”

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Strategies of self-organising communities in a gentrifying city

Holstein

2019

Urban Studies

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While commonly pitched as potential spaces for the empowerment of marginalised minority groups, self-organised projects such as community gardens are also susceptible to neoliberal discourses and governance mechanisms. While relationships between community gardening and gentrification are now well established, less is known about the grassroots strategies of garden groups in the context of such conditions and the ways in which gentrification changes the community gardening movement itself. This paper combines conceptual approaches to community gardens as shaping citizen-subjectivities and as projects positioned in networks to offer detailed insight into strategic responses of community gardeners to a gentrifying environment. The paper highlights how demographic change, neighbourhood densification and changes in the attitude of local government shape three community gardens in Sydney, Australia. The paper reveals that, more than government policy, changes that gardeners observe in the neighbourhood and their perceptions of local government’s attitude towards different community gardens in the vicinity, shape how they manage community gardens. Interactions and responses of garden groups to perceived threats, as well as changes in the projects’ social composition, can lead to the emergence of conflict and competition. As it becomes increasingly clear that inequalities in the surrounding urban environment manifest as part of the social fabric of community spaces, the paper demonstrates that communities are differently positioned to articulate strategies in response to perceived precarity and that these strategies can amplify unequal opportunities for distinct garden groups to persist into the future.

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Building resilience and well‐being in the Margins within the City: Changing perceptions, making connections, realising potential, plugging resources leaks

Cited by 11 publications

References 26 publications

Growth in WEIRD Helsinki: Countering Dominant Urban Politics and its “Green” Pretentions

Growth in WEIRD Helsinki: Countering Dominant Urban Politics and its “Green” Pretentions

Urban regeneration ‘from the bottom up’

Strategies of self-organising communities in a gentrifying city

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