The Art of Green Maintenance

Future-Making in Urban Gardening

Bibliographic Data

ID6014151
AuthorsAnna Horolets (0000-0001-9193-6338, Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology University of Warsaw), Saša Poljak Istenič (0000-0001-5277-7100, ZRC SAZU, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology), Alexandra Schwell (0000-0002-5972-7429, Department of Cultural Analysis University of Klagenfurt)
Year2023
Volume53
Issue46
Pages186-210
Publication date2023-12-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueEtnološka tribina (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0351-1944 • E-ISSN: 1848-9540
PublisherCroatian Ethnological Society (PUBLISHER • HR)
DOI10.15378/1848-9540.2023.46.07
OpenAlexW4390112465
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited36

Urban gardening plays a major role in how sustainable futures are imagined and envisaged, but the focus on its innovative potential tends to obscure the diverging logics at play. We draw upon ethnographic fieldwork at the community garden Onkraj gradbišča in Ljubljana, which was conceptualized primarily as a social and cultural innovation. Yet, it continuously called for maintenance and care practices in which the organizers and the gardeners had to engage to make it last. We argue that maintenance labor is crucial for sustainable urban future-making practices

Business · Environmental ethics · Ethnography · Focus (optics · Futures contract · Political science · Public relations · Sociology · Anthropology · Regional Development and Management Studies

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