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Cultivating urban conviviality: urban farming in the shadows of Copenhagen's neoliberalisms

Rebecca Leigh Rutt

Journal of Political Ecology

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Ethnographic research on a small rooftop garden in Copenhagen, Denmark, explored how urban farming initiatives interact with neoliberal trends. The study found that communal, eco-social urban farming endeavors are entangled in the city's neoliberal turn, with formalization processes and austerity measures both nurturing and endangering these initiatives. Neoliberal labor, food systems, and housing policies are shown to subvert convivial urban farming efforts.