‘Cultivating Integration’? Migrant Space-making in Urban Gardens

Lapiņa, Linda

doi:10.1080/07256868.2017.1386630

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“…Unfamiliarity is not necessarily ‘bad’ in itself and can be cause for concern or a point of novel delight dependent on context (Rishbeth & Finney, 2006). Research focused on urban gardening and allotment‐ing (Coughlan & Hermes, 2016; Lapina, 2017; Taylor & Lovell, 2015) mostly highlights positive emotional reactions, including recognition of plants and transnational practices of growing. The particularity represented by the non‐human—a plant in place or out of place—does appear to support migrants developing broader conceptions of their own sense of (transnational) belonging (Rishbeth & Finney, 2006; Strunk & Richardson, 2017).…”

Section: Migrant Experiences Of Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

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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Section: Migrant Experiences Of Naturementioning

confidence: 99%

Urban nature and transnational lives

Rishbeth

Birch

2020

Population Space and Place

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“…The human/nature relationship Growing acknowledgment about human-nature interaction and its resultant impact on health promoting behaviors has consistently shown that contact with nature is vitally important for wellbeing (1,(14)(15)(16)(17)(18). However, such acknowledgment is concurrent with increased occurrence of loss of green space in urban areas (12,(19)(20)(21)(22) thereby reducing the chances of regular nature contact among urban dwellers.…”

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Connecting to nature through community engaged scholarship: Community gardens as sites for collaborative relationships, psychological, and physiological wellbeing

Ward

Truong²,

Gray³

2022

Front. Psychiatry

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Community gardens are recognized as being associated with a range of benefits for participants that include enhanced outcomes in physical and affective domains and community building. The purpose of this study was to research the impact of the New South Wales Royal Botanic Gardens (RBG) Community Greening (CG) program and to inform the ongoing development of this community outreach program. The organic community partnerships inherent in the design and the relationships between the Community Greening program participants and researchers is examined through the lens of Community Engaged Scholarship (CES). Over a seven-month period, the CG team implemented a community garden development program in six sites. Mixed-method research on the impact of the program found that the community gardening participants experienced positive changes in physical activity, psychological wellbeing and motivation for social engagement, and these outcomes were facilitated as a result of their relationships with members of the CG team. This paper examines how such programs, when explicitly framed as CES, could assist in consolidating nature-based community health and wellbeing programs and further legitimize community partnerships in development of community garden and green spaces as academically sound investigation and socio-economically justified activity. Expansion of this nature-based collaboration model may also enhance community engagement in green exercise, psychological wellbeing and community cohesion, and in turn support advocacy for greener environments locally, regionally and nationally.

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“…Since long, community gardens in low-income areas integrate successfully diverse cultural and socio-economic backgrounds [46,47]. Thus, integration or intercultural urban gardens aim to dismantle social and cultural boundaries by gardening and space-making practices (e.g., [48]). The main beneficiaries of ecosystem services from Barcelona's urban gardens are elderly, low-middle income, and migrant people [47].…”

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Edible City Solutions—One Step Further to Foster Social Resilience through Enhanced Socio-Cultural Ecosystem Services in Cities

2019

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Nature-based solutions have not been able to actively involve citizens and to address successfully food security, poverty alleviation, and inequality in urban areas. The Edible City approach promises a strategic step towards the development of sustainable, livable, and healthy cities. We introduce the conceptional framework of Edible City Solutions (ECS), including different forms of urban farming combined with closed loop systems for sustainable water, nutrient, and waste management. We review scientific evidence on ECS benefits for urban regeneration and describe the status quo of ECS in Rotterdam, Andernach, Oslo, Heidelberg, and Havana as case studies. We provide an analysis of strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats (SWOT) to explore the capacity of ECS to enhance multifunctionality of urban landscapes with special focus on social cohesion and quality of life. Based on this we identify and discuss strategies for fostering socially relevant implementations for the case study cities and beyond.

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‘Cultivating Integration’? Migrant Space-making in Urban Gardens

Cited by 13 publications

References 37 publications

Urban nature and transnational lives

Urban nature and transnational lives

Connecting to nature through community engaged scholarship: Community gardens as sites for collaborative relationships, psychological, and physiological wellbeing

Edible City Solutions—One Step Further to Foster Social Resilience through Enhanced Socio-Cultural Ecosystem Services in Cities

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