Cultivating belonging: refugees, urban gardens, and placemaking in the Midwest, U.S.A.

Strunk, Christopher; Richardson, Margaret

doi:10.1080/14649365.2017.1386323

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“…Urban gardening projects have emerged across the region that repurpose vacant property for use in im/migrant‐focused community agriculture, including in Buffalo, Cleveland, Rock Island, St. Louis, and Syracuse (Ferguson, ; Judelsohn et al, ; Hardman, ; Petrin, ). Strunk and Richardson () examine the involvement of refugees in urban gardens in Rock Island, Illinois. They demonstrate how urban gardens can function as “potentially inclusive places that can promote new understandings of landscapes, agriculture, food, and even urban sustainability” (:829).…”

Section: Processes: Im/migrant Lives and Rust Belt Urban Landscapesmentioning

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“…Strunk and Richardson () examine the involvement of refugees in urban gardens in Rock Island, Illinois. They demonstrate how urban gardens can function as “potentially inclusive places that can promote new understandings of landscapes, agriculture, food, and even urban sustainability” (:829). After two decades of population decline, Rock Island's population stabilized with the arrival of new refugee populations from South and Southeast Asia and Africa, who settled in its West End.…”

Section: Processes: Im/migrant Lives and Rust Belt Urban Landscapesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Urban gardening projects have emerged across the region that repurpose vacant property for use in im/migrant-focused community agriculture, including in Buffalo, Cleveland, Rock Island, St. Louis, and Syracuse (Ferguson, 2019;Judelsohn et al, 2017;Hardman, 2017;Petrin, 2018). Strunk and Richardson (2019) Partisanship alone is insufficient to explain local immigration activism, however. In the context of increased immigration policy fragmentation, local responses are also inspired by problems and politics at multiple scales, the "sociohistorical legacies of localities" (Matos, 2017: 810) and the emergence of "eco-systems" of policy entrepreneurs (McDaniel et al, 2019).…”

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Rust and reinvention: Im/migration and urban change in the American Rust Belt

Pottie‐Sherman

2019

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Immigration represents a promising counternarrative for Rust Belt cities in the 21st century. Increasingly, both immigrants and refugees are part of the comeback stories of Northeastern and Midwestern cities from Buffalo to Dayton and Pittsburgh. This review explores recent research in urban geography and allied disciplines focusing on the international migration patterns, processes, and politics reshaping the urban geography of the American Rust Belt. Recent research sheds crucial light on how im/migrant lives are reshaping urban landscapes of Rust Belt cities, and conversely, how local immigration policies in these cities are rearranging the uneven geographies of immigrant receptivity across the United States. Overall, this review highlights the limitations of the singular spatial imaginary of the Rust Belt advanced previously by many urbanists. Rather, this review illustrates the rich, complex, and tangled contemporary spatial nuances associated with international migration in this region. These spatial nuances are complicated by increasingly exclusionary immigration policy and rhetoric at the federal level since January of 2017.

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Section: Processes: Im/migrant Lives and Rust Belt Urban Landscapesmentioning

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Rust and reinvention: Im/migration and urban change in the American Rust Belt

Pottie‐Sherman

2019

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“…In the past two decades, human geographers have contributed to, and complicated, these narratives. Geographies of gardening more generally have shown how both gardens and gardening can be contradictory sites and practices for the formation of multiple subjectivities and negotiations of difference (Blomley, ; Cadieux, ; Harris, ; Mustafa, Smucker, Ginn, Johns, & Connely, ; Pudup, ; Robbins, ; Strunk & Richardson, ). Geographies of gardens have considered the role of settlement and plants in broader conceptions of dwelling and cultural production (Christie, ; Doolittle, ; Kimber, ).…”

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“…With respect to situating yards more firmly within these geographies of social inequalities, scholars of yards could exchange more with analyses of community, communal, and allotment gardens. This literature is now extensive across several fields, but relevant studies have examined the contradictory natures of cultivating subjectivities in relation to the state, ethical care, and social difference, as well as embodied engagements with plants and shared spaces (Crouch, ; Pudup, ; Strunk & Richardson, ). Analyses of community gardens within their urban and suburban spatial contexts have also mobilized theories of public space and the role of greening projects within processes such as gentrification (Eizenberg, ; Staehli, Mitchell, & Gibson, ).…”

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Keep off the grass! New directions for geographies of yards and gardens

Lang

2018

Geography Compass

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This paper provides a critical assessment of geographic research on yards and private gardens, with a focus on how geographers study people's engagements with more than human organisms and surroundings. Geographies have come alive as assemblages of lively materials, distributed agencies, and animated political and material flows. At the same time, there is renewed interest on the part of geographers to better take into account lived experiences and the embodied politics of difference. Relations between people and their everyday surroundings are central to these critical analyses. This paper examines one such potent realm of these everyday engagements: the yard. These are spaces intimately bound up with uneven geographies of residential development, as well as places of creativity, care, and failure. Contemporary environmental efforts increasingly enroll the yard or garden as a crucial interface through which to refashion relations between water, infrastructure, particular species, chemical inputs, and food systems. This paper identifies two themes within contemporary yard and garden research, as well as ongoing tensions. I argue that the familiarity of such spaces to Anglophone geography challenges and invites further methodological experimentation and analysis. Yards and private gardens also provide purchase on pressing questions of social inequalities, property, and nature. Thus, I identify two directions for future yard research: developing more experimental methodological approaches beyond a focus on lawns and better situating yards within broader geographies of inequity and the production of geographic knowledge.

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Urban nature and transnational lives

Rishbeth

Birch

2020

Population Space and Place

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This paper explores ways in which first generation migrants living in a UK city engage with urban nature. Through understanding mundane connections with local nature (plants, animals and seasons), we attend to two questions 'what can narratives of urban nature tell us about experiences of migration', and inversely 'what can diverse migrant voices tell us about experiences of urban nature'? We draw on interview data with 23 participants, all born overseas, with a diverse mix in terms of age (young adults to older retired people), gender, country of origin and length of time resident in the United Kingdom. The analysis focuses on three areas: multisensory engagements with weather, care for nature and how transnational identities surface through the relational dimensions of nature narratives. We conclude by highlighting the potential of embodied nature engagement to support a sense of wellbeing and transnational identity across the life-course, with potential to more broadly reflect pluralist understandings of the urban environment.

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Cultivating belonging: refugees, urban gardens, and placemaking in the Midwest, U.S.A.

Cited by 47 publications

References 44 publications

Rust and reinvention: Im/migration and urban change in the American Rust Belt

Rust and reinvention: Im/migration and urban change in the American Rust Belt

Keep off the grass! New directions for geographies of yards and gardens

Urban nature and transnational lives

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