Neither Poor nor Cool: Practising Food Self-Provisioning in Allotment Gardens in the Netherlands and Czechia
| Autor: | Lucie Sovová, Esther J. Veen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Geography
Planning and Development 0211 other engineering and technologies 0507 social and economic geography alternative food networks TJ807-830 Coping strategy Context (language use) 02 engineering and technology Minor (academic) Management Monitoring Policy and Law TD194-195 Renewable energy sources Food self-provisioning Alternative food networks food self-provisioning allotment gardens urban food practice theory coping strategy quiet sustainability GE1-350 Sociology Social science Legitimacy Practice theory Environmental effects of industries and plants Renewable Energy Sustainability and the Environment Quiet sustainability 05 social sciences 021107 urban & regional planning Provisioning Social practice Rural Sociology Allotment Environmental sciences Western europe Urban food Rurale Sociologie 050703 geography Allotment gardens |
| Zdroj: | Sustainability, Vol 12, Iss 5134, p 5134 (2020) Sustainability (Switzerland) 12 (2020) 12 Sustainability (Switzerland), 12(12) Sustainability; Volume 12; Issue 12; Pages: 5134 |
| ISSN: | 2071-1050 |
| Popis: | While urban gardening and food provisioning have become well-established subjects of academic inquiry, these practices are given different meanings depending on where they are performed. In this paper, we scrutinise different framings used in the literature on food self-provisioning in Eastern and Western Europe. In the Western context, food self-provisioning is often mentioned alongside other alternative food networks and implicitly framed as an activist practice. In comparison, food self-provisioning in Central and Eastern Europe has until recently been portrayed as a coping strategy motivated by economic needs and underdeveloped markets. Our research used two case studies of allotment gardening from both Western and Eastern Europe to investigate the legitimacy of the diverse framings these practices have received in the literature. Drawing on social practice theory, we examined the meanings of food self-provisioning for allotment gardeners in Czechia and the Netherlands, as well as the material manifestations of this practice. We conclude that, despite minor differences, allotment gardeners in both countries are essentially ‘doing the same thing.’ We thus argue that assuming differences based on different contexts is too simplistic, as are the binary categories of ‘activist alternative’ versus ‘economic need.&rsquo |
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