The 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.

Urban renewal.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Practice of Collective Escape

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Bristol University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Drawing on ethnographic research in urban growing projects in Glasgow, this book explores community dynamics and asks who benefits from such projects. A timely consideration of localism and community empowerment, the book sheds light on key issues of 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

A burnt-out tenement gap site

An abandoned council playing field

From Glasgow to the world

3 The Rhythms of Urban Escape

'A depressurizing chamber'

Rhythm as a heuristic

Escaping into valued labour

Against, in and beyond work

Working within the austere state

Getting beyond consumption at the meadow

A different rhythm in the city

Seasonality

Urgency versus longevity

The question of collective rhythm

4 Who Gets to Escape?

Boundary work

Grassroots and questions of representation

'Not a race thing, but a class divide'

'Everybody's space'

The middle class and the other

The assumed universality of the outdoors

Female labour and the mothers' campaign

On 'garden babies' and defensive masculinity

The limits of inclusion

5 Ownership, Autonomy and the Commons

Staking claim to history

Reimagining the city

Contested neighbourhoods, diverging narratives

Land use, land value, land use value

Common ownership, open ground

Transgressions of the collective imaginary

Considering commoning

The politics of alterity and autonomy

From the commons to community

6 Escape into Responsibility

Like 'littering in your back garden'

The idea of community

Imagining community, practising care

Common garden friendships.

In-group, out-group

Fragmentary meadow boundaries

Responsibility and justice

The attitude of 'yes, we can'

7 Field Dynamics and Strategic Neutrality

Playing the field

Oppositional organizing at the meadow

Keeping things private

Organizational responses to field pressures

The importance of non-alignment

8 The Political Imagination of Common Justice

Ambiguity, interpretations and imaginations

Garden variety politics

Subjective politicization

A common justice thing

A temporalized politics, or politics over time

9 Escape, Crisis and Social Change

Communal growing projects over time

Evolving challenges

Emerging crises

Emergency food in unprecedented times

10 Conclusion

Community, politics, justice

The afterlives of growing

Open terrain

For the gardens to come

Notes

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

References

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5292-2072-6

1-5292-2071-8