Recognising the edible urban commons
Cultivating latent capacities for transformative governance in Singapore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8109908 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Huiying Ng (0000-0001-8214-4144, National University of Singapore, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 7 |
| Pages | 1417-1433 |
| Publication date | 2019-05-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0042098019834248 |
| OpenAlex | W2942744025 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
| References cited | 30 |
Across urbanising Asia, edible commons surprise, contradict or challenge social norms of being in public. Their presence provokes new adjudications of approaching, governing and managing shared and living property, prompting thought on how public and private realms of life may converge into informal modes of co-governance for green place-making and flourishing. Starting with an anecdote of stealing in a short-lived urban farm in Singapore, I conceptualise edible urban commons as ‘active moments’. Specifically, they are active moments where a generative form of friction and fiction emerges, and as such, are allegorical packages that transmit latent capacities. I suggest that closer attention to forms of regulatory slippage in these spaces generates insight about latent capacities for transformation. Finally, I propose a preliminary set of latent capacities for transformative governance towards an ecological identity that supports edible commoning in cities
Anecdote · Commons · Corporate governance · Economics · Environmental ethics · Flourishing · Management · Political science · Sociology · Transformative learning · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Psychology · Socioeconomic Development in Asia · Water Governance and Infrastructure · Law · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2026 (7) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |