“I am not by any stretch a gardener, just curious”
Feminist Gentrifier Memoirs and an Ethics of Urban Gardening
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 22011750 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Maria Sulimma (0000-0001-9016-5041, University of Freiburg, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 70-86 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-28 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ecozon European Journal of Literature Culture and Environment (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2171-9594 • E-ISSN: 2171-9594 |
| Publisher | Universidad de Alcala (PUBLISHER • ES) |
| DOI | 10.37536/ecozona.2023.14.1.4876 |
| OpenAlex | W4367551703 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Even though the texts that this article refers to as “feminist gentrifier memoirs” are not exclusively examples of garden writing, their feminist writers’ gardening practices feature prominently to explore their conflicted position in a gentrifying neighborhood and the networks of care that form out of neighborly interactions over the garden. Drawing on urban studies in the social sciences and humanities, literary studies, and environmental humanities, the article turns to Anne Elizabeth Moore’s Gentrifier (2021) and Vikki Warner’s Tenemental (2018) as prominent engagements with the complex emotions caused by their writers’ white privilege, homeownership, and complicity in processes of displacement and real estate speculation. These texts employ modes and affordances of garden writing, feminist memoir, urban memoir, and gentrification fiction. The article further considers the ways they are influenced by the activism of community gardening and benefit from sustainability measures of cities, including urban farms and gardens (summarized under the keywords green or environmental gentrification)
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Complicity · Gentrification · Memoir · Political science · Situationism · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Gender Studies · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
| Highly cited | No |
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