Sustainability ‘wars’ in a New England town

Krause, Elizabeth L.; Sharma, Anurag

doi:10.1016/j.futures.2012.03.001

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“…Back to my own Bildungsroman , from the aesthetics of dairy farming to the politics of cheese denominations and finally to the reinvention of short food chains, I have gained insight in multiple and ambivalent interpretations of apparently self-evident principles among diverse circles of experts, for example that of ‘sustainability’ (see Krause and Sharma 2012) or of ‘solidarity’ (Grasseni 2013). Which better place than food chains to find evidence of ecologic and relational balance gone astray: water scarcity on the one hand and floods on the other, reduced soil fertility coupled with increasing desertification due to climate change.…”

Section: Economies and Citizenshipmentioning

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Understanding skill, food and field

Grasseni

2018

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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Building on an epistemological reading of anthropology as a fieldbased social science, I argue in favour of ethnography, namely a reflexive field-based practice and a defining methodology for anthropology. I introduce the methodology of 'comparing by context' as a way of rigorously translating the experience of apprenticeship in the field into forms of social learning and of understanding. I argue that practising anthropology as an ethnographer is a matter of negotiating the pendulum between participant observationa form of apprenticeship in the fieldand anthropological understanding.

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Section: Economies and Citizenshipmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding skill, food and field

Grasseni

2018

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

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“…Sustainability discourses are used in a variety of political settings from the local to the global to make claims about future pathways for action (Krause and Sharma 2012;O'Connor 1994;Peet and Watts 1996). AVAAL's activists linked the term sustainability to the food security and wellbeing of low-income people in the city who are enduring the ongoing effects of Portugal's economic crisis.…”

Section: Sustainabilitymentioning

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Cultivating Civic Ecology

Harper¹,

Afonso²

2016

Anthropology in Action

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Urban gardens are a form of self-provisioning, leisure and activist practice that is cropping up in cities around the world (Mougeot 2010). We present the history and contemporary terrain of Lisbon’s urban gardens and discuss the cultural values that gardeners attach to the practice of growing food in interstitial urban spaces. We present initial findings from our research with an urban gardeners’ association as it attempts to transform informal or clandestine garden spaces into an ‘urban agricultural park’. This coalition of gardeners from diverse socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds is reclaiming land and using a participatory design process to create a shared space. They hope to grow vegetables and to re-grow ‘community’ by forging shared experiences in the neighbourhood. We describe how we used Photovoice as a process for exploring residents’ motivations in planting informal and community gardens on public land. What visions of sustainability and the contemporary city emerge from the practice of urban gardening? What kinds of urban gardening practices produce ‘communities of practice’ that cross ethnic, socioeconomic, and generational lines? The Photovoice approach allowed us to examine how gardeners conceptualise their use of urban space as they build new civic identities around gardening and make political claims to gain access and control over vacant land.

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Sustainability ‘wars’ in a New England town

Cited by 2 publications

References 23 publications

Understanding skill, food and field

Understanding skill, food and field

Cultivating Civic Ecology

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