Things that endure
Community gardens and the post-work imaginary
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2405052 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Abigail Schoneboom (0000-0001-8917-2877, Newcastle University, corresponding author), Daniel Mallo (0000-0003-1641-8295, Newcastle University), Armelle Tardiveau (Newcastle University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 162-180 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Classical Sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-795X • E-ISSN: 1741-2897 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1468795x231154229 |
| OpenAlex | W4319923059 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 37 |
Using Gorz's writing on cities and time as a starting point, this sensory ethnographic study uses pinhole photography to explore how time feels for 'unemployed' volunteers at a community garden in the north-east of England. It upholds that the garden's ability to fill time meaningfully is grounded in the food-growing and composting cycle but is also anchored to the mature trees, structures and artworks - made, grown or maintained by the volunteers themselves, that persist in the space for many years. We argue that urban community gardens offer their denizens an 'elongated present' that is fulfilling to the individual while also sustaining community and nature. Emphasising the need for enduring, rather than temporary or pop-up, growing spaces in helping us transition to a sustainable, post-work society, the study thus adds temporal insight to existing scholarship on the importance of community gardens
Aesthetics · Art · Community building · Ethnography · Media studies · Political science · Public relations · Scholarship · Sociology · The Imaginary · Visual arts · Work (physics · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban Green Space and Health
Basics of qualitative research
Technics and civilization
Why Has Work Effort Become More Intense?
Critical social theory and the end of work
The Jobless Future
Doing Visual Ethnography
'Worklessness'
The Human Condition
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism
Doing” Gardening and “Being” at the Allotment Site
Design
Clashing temporalities of care and support as key determinants of transformatory and justice potentials in urban gardens
The Workplace Window View
Longshoremen
Auto‐photographic study of everyday emotional geographies
Beyond the frame, beyond critique
Imag(in)ing ‘homeless places’
Doing Sensory Ethnography
The refusal of work
The Problem with Work
An exploration of the multiple motivations for spending less time at work
Cultivating health
The Sensory Dimensions of Gardening
Enforced leisure
Time, Work-Discipline, and Industrial Capitalism
Issues of Access and Identity
It makes you make the time
An urban tour
The Work of Community Gardens
On Affective Labor in Post-Fordist Italy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |