The Urbanization of Nature in a (Post)Socialist Metropolis
An Urban Political Ecology of Allotment Gardening
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4382276 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Petr Gibas (0000-0003-4767-6609, corresponding author), Irena Boumová |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 18-37 |
| Publication date | 2020-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-1317 • E-ISSN: 1468-2427 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/1468-2427.12800 |
| OpenAlex | W2964944242 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
| References cited | 64 |
In this article we explore how nature becomes part of the city through the example of allotment gardening in the city of Prague, in the Czech Republic. Prague allotments were established based on an ongoing political-ecological process of urbanization of nature that was locally driven by socialist (from 1948 to 1989) and later neoliberal governance. We employ a situated urban political ecology (UPE) approach to analyse changes in the planning of allotments and the impact thereof on the experience of gardeners. This double focus allows us to uncover the effects of neoliberalization on the processes of production of urban nature in respect of both policy and everyday practice. We contrast contemporary capitalist urbanization with its socialist predecessor by showing the immediate effects of the acceptance of neoliberal modes of governance on allotments, urban nature and the understanding of the city. We open allotments as a terrain for UPE to turn attention to the (uneven) production of urban nature in a post-socialist context that has thus far been largely absent from the UPE literature. We demonstrate that post-socialist urbanization is a fruitful terrain that offers new opportunities to unmask the effects of neoliberalization on the production of uneven urban space and thus improves our understanding of contemporary uneven urbanisms
Allotment · Archaeology · Corporate governance · Economic geography · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Market economy · Political ecology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · Urban planning · Urbanization · Environmental Philosophy and Ethics · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban Green Space and Health · Ecology
From coping strategy to hopeful everyday practice
Exploring the perspectives of urban allotment gardens in Czechia
The refeudalisation of parks
The urban political ecologies of the green spaces of socialist housing estates
Urban food governance without local food
Chinese food self-provisioning
The spatialized political ecology of the city
Mutations de l’agriculture urbaine dans une capitale post-socialiste
Agriculture in a Socialist City
Quiet right to the city
Violation of land use regulations for allotment gardens
Can food self-reliance support urban sustainability? The lessons from urban gardening in North Korea
The urban political ecology of the commons or commoning as a socio-natural process
We're managing a different river now
Theory From Empty Land
Liquid Power
Concrete and Clay
In the Nature of Cities
Actually Existing Neoliberalism
Urban Political Ecology. Great Promises, Deadlock… and New Beginnings?
Postsocialism
Domesticating Neo‐Liberalism
Three steps to a historical anthropology of actually existing neoliberalism
Post-Soviet Social
Decolonialising ‘actually existing neoliberalism’
Changing Patterns of Allotment Gardening in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
From the English Cottage Garden to the Swedish Allotment
Locked-in post-socialism
Zombie neoliberalism and the ambidextrous state
Rethinking urban metabolism
Urban Political Ecology of Worth and Value
Putting neoliberalism in its time and place
Food Self-Provisioning in Czechia
Neoliberalism, higher education and the knowledge economy
Home, the culture of nature and meanings of gardens in late modernity
The loss of land devoted to allotment gardening
Association, Sociability, and Civic Culture
The Poolitical City
In the Nature of the Non‐City
Cities and the Geographies of “Actually Existing Neoliberalism”
Urban Political Ecology, Justice and the Politics of Scale
Contesting Urban Metabolism
Unlearning (Un)Located Ideas in the Provincialization of Urban Theory
Urbanization and class-produced natures
An unsustainable state
Domesticating neo-liberalism
The Landscape of Food
Zombie socialism and the rise of neoliberalism in post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe
Food Self‐provisioning in Europe
Introduction
Creators, Transmitters, and Users
Stories around food, politics and change in Poland and the Czech Republic
Circulations and metabolisms
Why farm the city? Theorizing urban agriculture through a lens of metabolic rift
Provincializing Urban Political Ecology
Maintaining Climate Change Experiments
Remaking Urban Environments
The three anthropological approaches to neoliberalism
Disrupted Infrastructures
Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology
Fetishizing the modern city
Cyborg Urbanization
The Sensory Dimensions of Gardening
From Neoliberalism to Neoliberalisation
Green Urban Political Ecologies
I love being in the garden
When I'm in the Garden I Can Create My Own Paradise
Landscape political ecologies of urban 'swiftlet farming' in George Town, Malaysia
Urban Political Ecology
Neoliberalism as concept
Cultivating Natures
| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 14 |