Gardening on the Edge
The Social Conditions of Unsustainability on an African Urban Periphery
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8375993 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Susanne Freidberg (0000-0001-5916-8519, Dartmouth College, corresponding author), Susanne E Freidberg |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 91 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 349-369 |
| Publication date | 2001-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of the Association of American Geographers (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-5608 • E-ISSN: 1467-8306 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/0004-5608.00248 |
| OpenAlex | W1964870892 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 32 |
| References cited | 28 |
Political ecology has done much to disassemble the dominant narratives used to define, explain, and manage environmental degradation in Africa. However, it has not seriously challenged a core assumption of these narratives: that the “natural” environment (that is, the environment containing natural resources) is the rural. This article argues for a critical analysis of human-environment relations in and around Africa’s cities, not simply because environmental problems in these areas have been for too long neglected. Such an inquiry also offers insights into the dynamic relationship between local ecological and economic change and the geographically and historically constructed social institutions governing daily production, exchange, and decision making processes. Drawing on research conducted in two market gardening villages outside of Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso, the article examines how a combination of economic austerity and certain kinds of natural resource deterioration have transformed both the meanings and practices of daily work, thereby undermining potentially useful relations of collaboration and trust, both within and beyond the village. More broadly, this article argues that any analysis of how people cope with increasingly difficult material conditions in Africa’s peri-urban areas must consider how local social institutions have been shaped by a history of close urban contact
Austerity · Development economics · Economic geography · Economics · Environmental degradation · Geography · Narrative · Natural (archaeology) · Natural resource · Political ecology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Resource (disambiguation) · Sociology · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management · Ecology · French Urban and Social Studies
Urban Sprawl or Urban Development? Peri-Urbanism in Metropolitan Areas of Amhara Region, Ethiopia
Confronting Sociospatial Exclusion on the Fringe of Africa's Cities Using Participatory GIS
Culture and Development in a Globalizing World
Past results and future directions in urban community gardens research
Managing seasonality in West African informal urban vegetable markets
Enabling equitable energy access for Mozambique? Heterogeneous energy infrastructures in Maputo's growing urban periphery
Climate risks in West Africa
Donor-driven’ neoliberal reform processes and urban environmental change in Kenya
To Garden, to Market
Environmental issues
Civil society and urban food insecurity
Political ecology and development
Toward an environmental justice of the rural-urban interface
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Urban public space initiatives and health in Africa
The “Politics of the Mirror”
Hungry Cities
Farming ruins
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The Mutual Conditioning of Humans and Pathogens
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The Nature of Gender
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Urban Political Ecology Beyond Methodological Cityism
Placing Plants in Territory
Cutting down trees
The Historical meanings of work
Going green
Population growth and agricultural change in Africa
Land Degradation and Society
Liberation Ecologies
Onions Are My Husband
No Condition Is Permanent
The World of Consumption
The Sociology of Economic Life
The reconstruction of environmental rights in urban South Africa
Goats and garbage in Khartoum, Sudan
To Garden, to Market
Why mobilize town dwellers? - joint management in Ouagadougou (1983-1990)
Development narratives, or making the best of blueprint development
Introduction
Tasty meals and bitter gifts
Urban Food Distribution in Asia and Africa
Development of the Grain Market and Merchants in Burkina Faso
Social Capital and Rural Intensification
Work and its Representations
African Urban Life
Roots in the African Dust
Social Anthropology of Work
Cultivating biological and cultural diversity
Social institutions and access to resources
Manufacturing dissent
What Makes Work Worth Doing
| Unique citing works | 32 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,28 |
| Citation span | 2001 - 2024 (24) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 30 |