Research & reports

Peer-reviewed research and reports on community urban agriculture, food education, composting, welfare and more.

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• „da draußen weiter horrorvideo“

  2021

  Friederike Reents · Publication Server of the Catholic University Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt) · Germany

  This paper analyzes Thomas Kling’s poem „geschrebertes idyll, für mike feser“ as an "allotment garden idyll" within 'new nature poetry'. While Kling skillfully engages with the idyll genre and offers ecological, social, medial, and historical critique, the study finds that he presents a decidedly patriarchal self-image, which contemporary readers would likely find less acceptable.

  Equity & displacementCommunityPolicyClimate change
  Read source →DOI: 10.25353/ubtr-izfk-39bd-f507

• Is urban gardening a source of wellbeing and just freedom? A Capability Approach based analysis from the UK and Ireland

  2019

  Alma Clavin · Manchester University Press eBooks · United Kingdom

  A study using qualitative, visual methods and Amartya Sen’s Capability Approach in five community garden sites in the UK and Ireland examined their potential for human agency and ecological sustainability. While positive agency and wellbeing benefits were observed, the gardens were found to be limited in their ability to truly enhance political freedoms and overcome asymmetric power relations. The research indicates that these initiatives may perpetuate neoliberal forms of unsustainable and uneven development, alongside ongoing issues of tenure insecurity.

  Equity & displacementCommunityHealthPolicyFood sovereignty & justiceClimate change
  Read source →DOI: 10.7228/manchester/9781526126092.003.0008