Research & reports

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

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• Guerrilla gardening as normalised law-breaking: Challenges to land ownership and aesthetic order

  2022

  Andrew Millie · Crime Media Culture An International Journal · United Kingdom

  This article considered guerrilla gardening, which involves taking on other people’s land without permission. A qualitative study of guerrilla gardeners from the North West of England found that guerrilla gardening is a normalised form of law-breaking. Despite not necessarily being to everyone’s taste and gardeners having an autocratic view of property, it is broadly accepted and welcomed, even by those who enforce the law.

  Governance failureCommunityPolicyDIY
  Read source →DOI: 10.1177/17416590221088792

• Kent Hakkı ve Katılımcılık Bağlamında Kendin Yap Kentleşme: Roma Bostanı Örneği

  2019

  gökçe öcal · Journal of Planning · Turkey (Istanbul)

  This study focuses on the Roma Garden, one of Istanbul's last remaining urban gardens, within the context of "DIY urbanism." In Istanbul, historical gardens are threatened by municipal policies favoring urban development, leading to the formation of "DIY" urban gardens on public land since 2013. These gardens operate without legal ties to the local state, and the destruction of urban public space over the last decade is noted as having paved the way for DIY public gardens as spaces of solidarity and shared knowledge.

  Governance failureDIYCommunityPolicyBiodiversity
  Read source →DOI: 10.14744/planlama.2019.29046

• Contesting Neoliberal Urbanism in Glasgow's Community Gardens: The Practice of DIY Citizenship

  2016

  John Crossan, Andrew Cumbers, Robert McMaster, Deirdre Shaw · Antipode · United Kingdom (Glasgow)

  This paper examines community gardens in Glasgow, acknowledging their vulnerability to neoliberal cooptation where citizen work may alleviate state service provision. However, it argues that even with neoliberal practices, these gardens cultivate collective practices that suggest a progressively transformative polity. This form of citizen participation, termed "Do-It-Yourself" (DIY) Citizenship, encourages reconsideration of relationships and effective political practice.

  Governance failureCommunityDIYPolicyFood sovereignty & justice
  Read source →DOI: 10.1111/anti.12220