Community Gardening As a Means to Changing Urban Inhabitants and Their Space

Title:

Community Gardening As a Means to Changing Urban Inhabitants and Their Space

Creator:

Bitusikova, Alexandra

Identifier:

https://cdk.lib.cas.cz/client/handle/uuid:e6debe6c-6571-4662-a239-387b43201b56
uuid:e6debe6c-6571-4662-a239-387b43201b56
doi:10.13060/23362839.2016.3.2.296

Subject:

community gardens, activism, Banská Bystrica, and Slovakia

Type:

article, model:article, and TEXT

Description:

Community gardening has become a new phenomenon in Slovakia. The evolution of community gardens has been enhanced thanks to the various motivations of the people involved: to grow and share fresh and healthy vegetables in unused urban spaces adjacent to their homes, to build a sense of community and strengthen social relations, to use and cultivate vacant urban space and to contribute to a more sustainable urban environment. This paper discusses the case of community gardening in the medium-sized city of Banská Bystrica in Slovakia. It analyses the growing popularity of community gardening as a result of the emergence of grassroots activism, a sign indicating the development of civil society. Using an ethnographic approach of participant observation and interviews, this paper also looks at community gardening as a non-political collective action addressing broader global issues.

Language:

English

Rights:

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
policy:public

Source:

Critical Housing Analysis | 2016 Volume:3 | Number:2

Harvested from:

CDK

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