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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826533503321

Autore

Nettle Claire

Titolo

Community gardening as social action / / Claire Nettle

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2016

ISBN

1-315-57297-4

1-317-16342-7

1-317-16341-9

1-4094-5587-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (273 p.)

Collana

Transforming environmental politics and policy

Disciplina

635

Soggetti

Community gardens

Social action

Collective behavior

Environmentalism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 2014 by Ashgate Publishing.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures; Series Editors' Preface; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 Community Gardening: From Leisure to Social Action; 2 Garden Views: Seeing Community Gardens as Sites of Social Change; 3 Theorising Collective Action; 4 Community Gardening as Activism; 5 In The Garden; 6 Growing Community; 7 Producing Culture; 8 Creation: The Politics of Direct Action and Prefiguration; 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.