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Green Shoots in Vacant Plots? Urban Agriculture and Austerity in Post-Crash Ireland

Mary P. Corcoran, Patricia C. Kettle, Cian O'Callaghan

ACME: An International Journal for Critical Geographies

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Shows how post-crash austerity governance in Dublin treated urban agriculture on vacant lots as a cheap 'stop-gap' between development booms, entrenching precarity: gardens exist only until land is reactivated for building, exposing the instrumentalization of UA under austerity.