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Study Practices and the creation of a common world. Unearthing the educational dynamics of an urban farming initiative

Hans Schildermans, Joke Vandenabeele, Joris Vlieghe

Teoría de la Educación Revista Interuniversitaria

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This theoretical article proposes "study practices" as a response to Bruno Latour's question of "where to land" amid socio-ecological transformation. It analyzes the urban farming initiative Torekes as a study practice, identifying educational dynamics of composition, problematization, and attention, and contrasts this reading with sociological and political analyses that frame the initiative as aimed at social cohesion or political subjectification. The piece is a conceptual/theoretical discussion rather than an empirical study, arguing that study practices, by enabling the creation of a common world, may offer a way of living together on a damaged planet.