Convergence on Sustainable Lifestyles? Mechanisms of Change and Resistance in a French Allotment
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5115922 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Géraldine Farges (0000-0001-8109-6750, Research Unit ALISS‐Food and Social Sciences (UR1303) INRA 65, boulevard de Brandebourg 94205 Ivry‐sur‐Seine Cedex France, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 55 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-21 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Sociologia Ruralis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-0199 • E-ISSN: 1467-9523 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/soru.12052 |
| OpenAlex | W1845196353 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 38 |
This article aims to contribute to understanding convergence on sustainable lifestyles in relation to recent governmental promotion of sustainability. We analyse the effects of inducement to pro-environmental practices in amateur gardeners on an allotment, a group of plots of land collectively managed in an urban context. We examine the conditions in which allotment gardeners integrate practices and norms on sustainability. Through a one-year ethnographic research project consisting of observations and repeat interviews with gardeners, we demonstrate that while they adopt new cultural techniques for their plots, the meanings of their gardening practices differ, as do their relationships with the environment. We identify three ideal types of gardeners and show that the diffusion of pro-environmental practices is not systematically related to shared concerns and that the meaning of practices can be interpreted differently by policymakers and lay individuals
Allotment · Amateur · Business · Context (archaeology) · Convergence (economics) · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Meaning (existential) · Political science · Politics · Promotion (chess) · Public relations · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Sustainability · Ecology · Law · Marketing · Organic Food and Agriculture · Psychology · Urban Agriculture and Sustainability · Urban Green Space and Health
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Overcoming the ‘value‐action gap’ in environmental policy
Diversity and connections in community gardens
Domesticated nature
The Discovery of Grounded Theory
Les jardins familiaux marseillais
Le jardinage ouvrier
Growing urban health
Les jardins familiaux aujourd'hui
Food Price Policies and the Distribution of Body Mass Index
Why garden for wildlife? Social and ecological drivers, motivations and barriers for biodiversity management in residential landscapes
Good food, good people
The Craft Consumer
Practice-ing behaviour change
Public engagement with carbon and climate change
Exploring the social bases of home gardening
Sustainability labels on food products
Home, the culture of nature and meanings of gardens in late modernity
Community gardening, neighborhood meetings, and social capital
The ‘Value-Action Gap’ in Public Attitudes towards Sustainable Energy
Amateur Gardening and Popular Recreation in 19th and 20th Centuries
Critical urban gardening as a post-environmentalist practice
Consumption and Theories of Practice
Habits, routines and temporalities of consumption
Connecting food environments and health through the relational nature of aesthetics
La « consommation durable » comme nouvelle phase d'une gouvernementalisation de la consommation
Les entretiens informels
Producing and Consuming Chemicals
Do-It-Yourself
A practice theoretical perspective on everyday dealings with environmental challenges of food consumption
Autoproduction, sociabilité et identité dans une petite ville ouvrière
Styles d'alimentation et goûts populaires
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2024 (9) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |