The Place of Greening
Comparing Civic Engagement Scenes of Urban Natures across Danish Cities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12766159 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anders Blok (0000-0002-3403-698X, University of Copenhagen, corresponding author), Amanda Krog Juvik (0000-0001-5319-0328, University of Copenhagen), Anna Helene Kvist Møller (0000-0002-4572-8885, University of Copenhagen), Jonas Skjold Raaschou-Pedersen (University of Copenhagen), Jakob Laage-Thomsen (0000-0002-8903-8333, Copenhagen Business School) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 91-112 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-27 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | City and Community (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1535-6841 • E-ISSN: 1540-6040 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/15356841211073589 |
| OpenAlex | W4214777316 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 31 |
As elsewhere in Europe, cities in Denmark have witnessed a surge in civic urban nature engagement, such as place- and practice-based initiatives (e.g., public-access community gardens, organic food collectives, and grazing associations that enhance biodiversity). While this expansion of urban green communities, as we call them, is widely noted in the literature, less attention has been paid to the comparative variability of their local civic expression. In this article, we use digital methods to map out the group styles, the spatial intergroup networks, and the cultural-political value landscapes of 130 urban green communities across the four largest cities in Denmark. To compare results, we develop the concept of “civic engagement scenes” as a way of responding to recent developments in cultural and political sociology. Overall, we show how this notion allows for interpreting civic greening groups: they are neither neighborhood-based endeavors nor hubs of social movement mobilization, but rather geographies of co-engagement that span cities while also forge new senses and practices of place
Civic engagement · Danish · Environmentalism · Geography · Greening · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Land Use and Ecosystem Services · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Urban Green Space and Health
Digital Methods
Studying Facebook via data extraction
Civic greening and environmental learning in public-access community gardens in Berlin
Civic modes of greening the city? Urban natures in-between familiar engagement and green critique
Voicing concern and difference
Cultivating Place
A reality check(list) for digital methods
Spikey Posters
Social–ecological memory in urban gardens—Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services
Thinking cities through elsewhere
Using APIs for Data Collection on Social Media
Community Volunteering as Neoliberal Strategy? Green Space Production in Berlin
Place, networks, space
Big and broad social data and the sociological imagination
The new environmentalism of everyday life
Differentiating Multiple Meanings of Garden and Community
The Location of Culture
Social Movements and Ecosystem Services-the Role of Social Network Structure in Protecting and Managing Urban Green Areas in Stockholm
Place and culture-making
Theatres and Communities
Visual Network Analysis
Between social spaces
The Plurality of Cognitive Formats and Engagements
A Space for Place in Sociology
Civic Action
Civil Society Reconsidered
Culture in Interaction
Social capital or group style? Rescuing Tocqueville's insights on civic engagement
| Citations per year | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Highly cited | No |