Learning to be human again
Being and becoming in the home garden commons
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4464792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Gabriel R Valle (0000-0001-5566-5569, California State University, San Marcos, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2021 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1255-1269 |
| Publication date | 2021-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Planning E Nature and Space (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2514-8486 • E-ISSN: 2514-8494 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/2514848620961943 |
| OpenAlex | W3090373399 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 42 |
This study uses ethnographic narratives of a Santa Clara Valley community of urban gardeners gathered from 2012 to 2016 to investigate the lived realities and struggles of creating an actually existing home garden commons. Many of these gardeners are recent immigrants for rural Mexico, Central American, and South East Asia, and many descend from rural traditions of commoning. Nevertheless, the current conditions in the urban centers of developed countries are far different from their dislocations. I argue that this multi-ethnic, multi-lingual group of home gardeners makes use of their marginality as an inventive force to create an actually existing commons. A home garden commons is a place of contradiction that is both neoliberal and radical. The findings suggest that marginalized, oppressed, and displaced peoples use resistance to reconstruct the basis of their social interactions. The growing, sharing, and consuming of food together produces forms of social life that enable people to envision new ways of being and becoming in post-capitalist futures
Business · Commons · Economic growth · Ethnic group · Ethnography · Futures contract · Narrative · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Gender Studies · Law · Organic Food and Agriculture · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Ecology
Staying with the Trouble
Vibrant Matter
Beyond the Kale
Food Justice
Commonwealth
The Magna Carta Manifesto
How Forests Think
Mexican-Origin Foods, Foodways, and Social Movements
Janitors, Street Vendors, and Activists
Cultivating Food Justice
Marx at the Margins
Working the Boundaries
How Forests Think
Re-enchanting the World
Social–ecological memory in urban gardens—Retaining the capacity for management of ecosystem services
Beyond food production
Food sovereignty in US food movements
Place, work, and civic agriculture
Food and the city
Autonomy, Erasure, and Persistence in the Urban Gardening Commons
Capitalist Formations of Enclosure
Actually Existing Commons
Urbanization and class-produced natures
The common life of yards
Radical, reformist, and garden-variety neoliberal
Enclosure, Common Right and the Property of the Poor
Differentiating Multiple Meanings of Garden and Community
It takes a garden
Neoliberalism and the making of food politics in California
The Devil in Silicon Valley
Marx beyond Marx
Gardens of Sabotage
Labor and Legality
The Mushroom at the End of the World
The Moral Economy of the Peasant
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,6 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2025 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |