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Community gardening as social action
Drawing on case studies and social movement theory Claire Nettle provides a new empirical and theoretical understanding of community gardening by applying a contextual framework that considers the activity as a way for people to engage in collective social action. Through this a richer, more complete understanding of community gardening as a form of social activity and of its potential contributions to activism, community, democracy and culture can be reached.
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Climate security in the Indo-Pacific: a systematic review of governance challenges for enhancing regional climate resilience
Climate security is a burgeoning focus of the multidisciplinary literatures investigating the impacts from climate change. This research theme has gained prominence due to the realisation that climatic changes will likely compromise human welfare and community stability, with significant implications for governments’ security agendas. The Indo-Pacific region is an important case study for understanding climate security given its ongoing environmental and developmental challenges and the cultural, political and economic tensions existing within and between neighbouring countries. This paper presents a systematic review and synthesis of academic and “grey” literatures that address climate adaptation, disaster management or regional security in the Indo-Pacific. From this review, we identify four key themes that arise prominently in discussion and analysis prepared by academic scholars, governments and non-government organisations alike. The ubiquity of these themes speaks to the interdependent nature of the adaptation, disaster management and security challenges. The literature is in agreement that maintaining and enhancing climate security in the Indo-Pacific will depend on the region’s capacity to strategically coordinate between the activities of governments, industry and communities; the willingness of governments to meaningfully cooperate with communities and each other despite existing tensions; governments’ ability to manage limited resources efficiently; and their capacity to identify and address climate-maladaptive path dependencies. We highlight the most popular prescriptions for addressing these concurrent challenges at the current time. We argue that these prescriptions warrant further research and will likely have broader applicability for addressing climate security challenges in other regions of the world.
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Narrative Practice Research Network Special Issue Introduction: Qualitative Research Meets Narrative Therapy and Community Work: A Confluence of Practice and Politics
This special issue, a collaboration between The Qualitative Report and the Narrative Practice Research Network, is a rich and diverse collection of papers linking Narrative Therapy/Community Work and qualitative research. In four sections, authors explore narrative practice research innovations, practitioners doing research and influencing practice via Research as Daily Practice, insider knowledge/insider research towards broader social movement politics, and research in service of broader change. The special issue organizers and contributors hope this collection leads to more conversation and collaboration.
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Community gardening as social action / Claire Nettle
\"There has been a resurgence of community gardening over the past decade with a wide range of actors seeking to get involved, from health agencies aiming to increase fruit and vegetable consumption to radical social movements searching for symbols of non-capitalist ways of relating and occupying space. Community gardens have become a focal point for local activism in which people are working to contribute to food security, question the erosion of public space, conserve and improve urban environments, develop technologies of sustainable food production, foster community engagement and create neighbourhood solidarity. Drawing on in-depth case studies and social movement theory, Claire Nettle provides a new and exciting empirical and theoretical understanding of community gardening as a site of collective social action. This provides not only a more nuanced and complete understanding of community gardening, but also highlights its potential challenges to notions of activism, community, democracy and culture.\"--Publisher description.
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Community Gardening: From Leisure to Social Action
Viewing community gardens as sites of collective social action enables a more nuanced and complete understanding of community gardening and its potential contributions to understandings of activism, community, democracy and culture. In North America and the United Kingdom, community gardens have caught the interest of scholars across a number of disciplines: leisure studies and health, urban and agrifood studies, sociology, economics and anthropology. Community gardens grow in the fertile intersections between food politics and agrifood studies, environmentalism and urban social movements, policy and planning, social work and social action. The development of my argument throughout the book follows a similar trajectory to the development of a community garden. Social action provides a useful frame for capturing some of the experiences and perspectives of community gardeners that lie beyond the bounds of policy discourse. Cultivating Community is a non-profit, non-government organisation that promotes and supports community gardening in Melbourne.
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In The Garden
This chapter focuses on the ways community gardeners garden and the ways gardening can become a form of collective social and political action in which knowledge, ideas and power are made manifest in the landscape. Rolling the compost barrels is a morning activity, before it becomes too hot to work in the full sun. Waste from nearby restaurants, lawn-mowing contractors and the garden is piled into human size tumblers with green comfrey and manure from the garden's chickens added to speed its transformation. The Australian City Farms and Community Gardens Network actively promotes organic practices in its conferences, submissions, website and publications and for most community gardeners, an organic approach is central to their gardening practice. Food security is an evolving, contested and complex concept, understood differently at different scales and from different political and theoretical orientations. Cultivating Community, for example, has increasingly prioritised food security aims, emphasising access rather than production.
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Community Gardening as Activism
Images of people digging raised beds and planting vegetable seedlings are not conventional representations of activism. New social movement scholars see social movement activity as conducted by people who identify as activists and who are embedded within activist communities. In identity-based movements such as feminist, queer and ethnic and nationalist movements, a pre-existing identity is often seen as being of foundational importance and is used as the basis for organising. The International Permaculture Convergence was going to happen in Perth this was in 1996. Long-term activists must consciously and actively shape their lives in order to stay active. A number of Australian community gardening activists have undertaken international research journeys, visiting community gardens and community food initiatives in countries around the world. Community gardening was chosen consciously and strategically as a way to enact environmental and social justice values and to influence the actions of others.
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