Database research record2008·USA (San Francisco Bay Area)
It takes a garden: Cultivating citizen-subjects in organized garden projects
Mary Beth Pudup
Geoforum
Urban Farm DB summary
Argues that 'organized garden projects' proliferate in roll-out neoliberal institutions (jails, schools, clinics) to cultivate self-governing citizen-subjects, reframing gardening policy as a technology for downloading social responsibility onto 'at-risk' individuals.