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Reflections on the production of space and justice: A study of everyday life of the SuoJincun's guerrilla gardeners

Shuyue He, Ming Li, Yuhan Zheng, Xin Gao, Ruixia Wang

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An ethnographic study of two guerrilla gardening cases in Nanjing, China (SuoJincun), examined how residents produce differentiated representational space in daily gardening practice. It found that gardening carries social value as material production, functions as a material carrier of place attachment and cultural identity, offers access to nature and culture for residents with limited mobility, and operates as a form of private appropriation and recycling of collective public space by residents.