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Practice of Collective Escape : Politics, Justice and Community in Urban Growing Projects / Helen Traill.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Traill, Helen, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community gardens.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (216 pages)
- Other Title:
- Practice of Collective Escape
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol, UK : Bristol University Press, 2023.
- 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.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.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-2071-8
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