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A Participatory Action Case Study of Guerrilla Gardening in Kingston, Ontario
Intervening with agriculture: a participatory action case study of guerrilla gardening in Kingston, Ontario Annie Crane Queen’s University Department of Environmental Studies Advisors: Leela Viswanathan and Graham Whitelaw ENSC 502/503 Thesis Project: Final Draft April 8, 2011 Abstract: The purpose of this study was to analyze guerrilla gardening’s relationship to urban space and social life using a critical Marxist approach. To achieve this two case studies of urban agriculture, one of guerrilla gardening and one of community gardening were developed. Through this comparison, guerrilla gardening was framed as a method of spatial intervention, drawing in notions of spatial justice and the right to the city as initially theorized by Henri Lefebvre. The case study of guerrilla gardening focuses on Dig Kingston, a project started by the researcher in June of 2010 and the community gardening case study will use the Oak Street Garden, the longest standing community garden in Kingston. The community gardening case study used content analysis and semi-structured long format interviews with relevant actors. The guerrilla gardening case study consisted primarily of action-based research as well as content analysis, and semi-structured long format interviews. By contributing to the small, but growing, number of accounts and research on guerrilla gardening this study analyzes the unique contributions of guerrilla gardening to understandings of urban agriculture by linking together material practices, social spaces and envisioned or possible geographies. 2 Acknowledgements: I would like to thank all of the participants in this research including members of the Dig Kingston collective, Oak Street Community Garden, community food activists and city officials. -
Rcguha's Deep Ecology
R.C.Guha’s Deep Ecology The respected radical journalist Kirkpatrick sale recently celebrated “the passion of a new and growing movement that has become disenchanted with the environmental establishment. Decrying the narrowly economic goals of mainstream environmentalism, this new movement aims at nothing less than a philosophical and cultural revolution in human attitudes toward nature. Ramchandra Guha develop a critique of deep ecology from the perspective of a sympathetic outsider. Ramchandra Guha’s treatment of deep ecology is primarily historical and sociological, rather than philosophical, in nature. He makes two main arguments : first, that deep ecology is uniquely American. Second, that the social consequences of putting deep ecology into practice on a worldwide basis are very grave indeed. The defining characteristics of deep ecology are fourfold. First, deep ecology argues that the environmental movement must shift from an “anthropocentric” to a “bio-centric” perspective. The anthropocentric------ bio-centric distinction is accepted as axiomatic by deep ecologists, it structures their discourse, and much of the present discussions remains mired within it. The second characteristic of deep ecology is its focus on the preservation of unsploilt wilderness and the restoration of degraded areas to a more pristine condition – to the relative neglect of other issues on the environmental agenda. Historically, it represents a playing out of the preservationist and utilitarian dichotomy that has plagued American environmentalism since the turn of the century. Morally, it is an imperative that follows from the bio-centric perspective ; other species of plants and animals, and nature itself ,have an intrinsic right to exist. And finally, the preservation of wilderness also turns on a scientific argument – viz.; the value of biological diversity in stabilizing ecological regimes and in retaining a gene pool for future generations. -
Organic Limited: the Corporate Rise and Spectacular Change in the Canadian and American Organic Food Sectors
ORGANIC LIMITED: THE CORPORATE RISE AND SPECTACULAR CHANGE IN THE CANADIAN AND AMERICAN ORGANIC FOOD SECTORS By Lisa F. Clark THESIS SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY In the Department ofPolitical Science © Lisa F. Clark 2007 SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY Fall 2007 All rights reserved. This work may not be reproduced in whole or in part, by photocopy or other means, without permission ofthe author. APPROVAL Name: LISA F. CLARK Degree: DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Title ofThesis: ORGANIC LIMITED: THE CORPORATE RISE AND SPECTACULAR CHANGE IN THE CANADIAN AND AMERICAN ORGANIC FOOD SECTORS Examining Committee: Graduate Chair: Dr. Peggy Falkenheim Meyer Professor, Department of Political Science Dr. Marjorie Griffin Cohen, Senior Supervisor Professor, Department ofPolitical Science Dr. Stephen McBride, Supervisor Professor, Department ofPolitical Science Dr. Theodore Cohn, Supervisor Professor Emeritus, Department ofPolitical Science Dr. Pat Howard, Examiner Associate Professor, School ofCommunications Simon Fraser University Dr. Harriet Friedmann External Examiner Professor, Centre for International, Department of Sociology, University ofToronto nd Date Defended!Approved: ----:;;.;:.:=::..:....::=-=------>--=::...::...::....:....-October 22 , 2007 _ ii SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Declaration of Partial Copyright Licence The author, whose copyright is declared on the title page of this work, has granted to Simon Fraser University the right to lend this thesis, project or extended essay to users -
Environmental Studies
ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES Richard Van Buskirk, Chair; Deke Gundersen The Environmental Studies Department (www.pacificu.edu/as/enviro/) in the College of Arts and Sciences provides students with an education that takes full advantage of Pacific University's liberal arts curriculum. In this program, students and faculty have opportunities to pursue interests that span a wide range of disciplines. In addition to the two full-time faculty members in the department, Environmental Studies offers the expertise of faculty affiliated with the program who are based in the disciplines of biology, chemistry, political science, economics, history, art, sociology, anthropology, philosophy and literature. This results in a wide range of opportunities to investigate environmental problems that cross traditional boundaries. Students in Environmental Studies can choose to apply their knowledge through research opportunities in unique nearby surroundings such as the coniferous forest of the John Blodgett Arboretum, the riparian corridors of the Gales Creek and Tualatin River watersheds, and the 750-acre Fernhill Wetlands. The B Street Permaculture Project (a 15-minute walk from campus) is a learning laboratory for sustainability that directly addresses the human component of environmental problem solving. Regionally, there are many exemplary resources available within a one- to two-hour drive of campus such as the Willamette and Columbia Rivers, Tillamook and Willapa Bays, and the forests of the Coast and Cascade Ranges. The proximity of Pacific University to study sites both wild and human-influenced is one of the main strengths of the Environmental Studies program. The Environmental Studies curriculum includes majors that lead to a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) or a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree. -
Useful Categories of Analysis in Environmental History
Santa Clara University Scholar Commons History College of Arts & Sciences 10-16-2014 Women and Gender: Useful Categories of Analysis in Environmental History Nancy Unger Santa Clara University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/history Part of the Environmental Studies Commons, Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Commons, Political History Commons, Social Justice Commons, and the Women's History Commons Recommended Citation Unger, N. (2014). Women and Gender: Useful Categories of Analysis in Environmental History. In A. Isenberg (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Environmental History. Oxford University Press, pp. 600-643. This material was originally published in Oxford Handbook of Environmental History edited by Andrew Isenberg, and has been reproduced by permission of Oxford University Press. For permission to reuse this material, please visit http://www.oup.co.uk/academic/rights/permissions. This Book Chapter is brought to you for free and open access by the College of Arts & Sciences at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in History by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. CHAPTER 21 WOMEN AND GENDER Useful Categories of Analysis in Environmental History NANCY C. UNGER IN 1990, Carolyn Merchant proposed, in a roundtable discussion published in The Journal of American History, that gender perspective be added to the conceptual frameworks in environmental history. 1 Her proposal was expanded by Melissa Leach and Cathy Green in the British journal Environment and History in 1997. 2 The ongoing need for broader and more thoughtful and analytic investigations into the powerful relationship between gender and the environment throughout history was confirmed in 2001 by Richard White and Vera Norwood in "Environmental History, Retrospect and Prospect," a forum in the Pacific Historical Review. -
Teaching the Environmental Humanities International Perspectives and Practices
CORE Metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk Provided by ResearchSPace - Bath Spa University Teaching the Environmental Humanities International Perspectives and Practices EMILY O’ GORMAN Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University, Australia THOM VAN DOOREN Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, University of Sydney, Australia URSULA MÜNSTER Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Olso, Norway JONI ADAMSON Department of English and Julie Ann Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University, USA CHRISTOF MAUCH Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, Germany SVERKER SÖRLIN, MARCO ARMIERO, KATI LINDSTRÖM Division of History of Science, Technology, and Environment, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden DONNA HOUSTON Department of Geography and Planning, Macquarie University, Australia JOSÉ AUGUSTO PÁDUA Institute of History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil KATE RIGBY Research Centre for Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University, UK OWAIN JONES College of Liberal Arts, Bath Spa University, UK JUDY MOTION Environmental Humanities, University of New South Wales, Australia STEPHEN MUECKE School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Australia Environmental Humanities 11:2 (November 2019) DOI 10.1215/22011919-7754545 © 2019 Each Author This is an open access article distributed under the terms of a Creative Commons license (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0). 428 Environmental -
Rhetorical Gardening: Greening Composition
Rhetorical Gardening: Greening Composition A dissertation submitted to the Graduate School Of the University of Cincinnati In partial fulfillment of the Requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of English and Comparative Literature of the College of Arts and Sciences by Carla Sarr June 2017 Master of Science in Teaching and Secondary Education, The New School Committee Chair: Laura R. Micciche Abstract Rhetorical Gardening: Greening Composition argues that the rhetorical understanding of landscapes offers a material site and a metaphor by which to broaden our understanding of rhetoric and composition, as well as increasing the rhetorical archive and opportunities for scholarship. An emphasis on material place in composition is of particular value as sustainability issues are among the toughest challenges college students will face in the years to come. Reading landscapes is an interpretive act central to meaningful social action. The dissertation argues that existing work in rhetorical theory and composition pedagogy has set the stage for an ecological turn in composition. Linking ecocomposition, sustainability, cultural geography, and literacy pedagogies, I trace the origins of my belief that the next manifestation of composition pedagogy is material, embodied, place-based, and firmly planted in the literal issues resulting from climate change. I draw upon historical gardens, landscapes composed by the homeless, community, commercial, and guerilla gardens to demonstrate the rhetorical capacity of landscapes in detail. Building from the argument that gardens can perform a rhetorical function, I spotlight gardeners who seek to move the readers of their texts to social action. Finally, I explore how the study of place can contribute to the pedagogy of composition. -
Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability 25
Environmental Worldviews, Ethics, and Sustainability 25 Biosphere 2—A Lesson in Humility C O R E C A S E S TUDY In 1991, eight scientists (four men and four women) were sealed sphere’s 25 small animal species went extinct. Before the 2-year inside Biosphere 2, a $200 million glass and steel enclosure period was up, all plant-pollinating insects went extinct, thereby designed to be a self-sustaining life-support system (Figure 25-1) dooming to extinction most of the plant species. that would add to our understanding of Biosphere 1: the earth’s Despite many problems, the facility’s waste and wastewater life-support system. were recycled. With much hard work, the Biospherians were A sealed system of interconnected domes was built in the also able to produce 80% of their food supply, despite rampant desert near Tucson, Arizona (USA). It contained artificial ecosys- weed growths, spurred by higher CO2 levels, that crowded out tems including a tropical rain forest, savanna, and desert, as well food crops. However, they suffered from persistent hunger and as lakes, streams, freshwater and saltwater wetlands, and a mini- weight loss. ocean with a coral reef. In the end, an expenditure of $200 million failed to maintain Biosphere 2 was designed to mimic the earth’s natural chemi- this life-support system for eight people for 2 years. Since 2007, cal recycling systems. Water evaporated from its ocean and other the University of Arizona has been leasing the Biosphere 2 facility aquatic systems and then condensed to provide rainfall over the for biological research and to provide environmental education tropical rain forest. -
Chiara Tornaghi and Chiara Certomà (Eds), Urban Gardening As Politics, New York: Routledge, 2018
Chiara Tornaghi and Chiara Certomà (eds), Urban Gardening as Politics, New York: Routledge, 2018. ISBN: 9780415793803 (cloth); ISBN: 9781315210889 (ebook) Together, and individually, Chiara Tornaghi and Chiara Certomà have made important contributions to the growing body of critical scholarly literature on urban agriculture. One of their latest collaborations has produced an edited volume, Urban Gardening as Politics, which interrogates the contribution of urban food production to creating more democratic, just, and sustainable cities. As the editors note in their introduction, urban agriculture is often viewed – in the public eye and in much of the academic research – in an overly positive light. Focus is often placed on urban agriculture’s potential contribution to food access or urban greening, for example, with less attention to the potential limitations or potentially negative effects of the practice, such as reinforcing processes of neoliberalization; race- and class disparities; or gentrification (for exceptions see McClintock 2014; Pudup 2008; Reynolds 2015). Though there has been an increase in critical analysis of urban agriculture published in the Anglophone literature over the past ten years, much of this has focused on the US context (e.g. Eizenberg 2012; Kato et al. 2013; McClintock 2014, 2018; Reynolds and Cohen 2016; Safransky 2014; see also Certomà 2011; Tornaghi 2014). With case studies from the UK, Ireland, Germany, Canada, as well as the United States, the book makes a valuable contribution to closing some of these gaps. The volume consists of 12 chapters, many of which were previously published in a 2015 special issue, guest-edited by Tornaghi and Certomà, of the journal Local Environment: The International Journal of Justice and Sustainability (see Certomà and Tornaghi 2015). -
Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives
Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives Ann-Kristin Bergquist Working Paper 18-034 Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives Ann-Kristin Bergquist Harvard Business School Working Paper 18-034 Copyright © 2017 by Ann-Kristin Bergquist Working papers are in draft form. This working paper is distributed for purposes of comment and discussion only. It may not be reproduced without permission of the copyright holder. Copies of working papers are available from the author. Business and Sustainability: New Business History Perspectives Ann-Kristin Bergquist Abstract: This working paper provides a long-term business history perspective on environmental sustainability. For a long time, the central issues addressed in the discipline of business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth, as well as patterns of success and failure in that process, but there now exists a compelling stream of new research focused on the environmental consequences of economic growth. The earliest theme to be explored, is the story of how and why some conventional industries sought to become less polluting. Researchers have dated this phenomenon back to the late nineteenth century, showed it gained momentum from the 1960s, and explored how it resulted in the mainstreaming of sustainability rhetoric, and sometimes practice, in large Western corporations from the 1980s. A more recent research theme has been the story of how for-profit entrepreneurs developed entire new product categories such as organic food and wind and solar energy. This process has also been traced back to the nineteenth century. With the rise in green consumerism and public policy support in some developed countries (primarily in Europe) for sustainability during the 1990s, these two historical trends met, as the concept of sustainable development spread to large conventional corporations, and visionary green firms scaled or were acquired by conventional big businesses. -
Understanding Guerrilla Gardening: an Exploration of Illegal Cultivation in the UK
Centre for Environment and Society Research Working Paper series no. 1 Understanding guerrilla gardening: an exploration of illegal cultivation in the UK Michael Hardman Understanding guerrilla gardening: an exploration of illegal cultivation in the UK Michael Hardman School of Property, Construction and Planning, Birmingham City University Working Paper Series, no. 1 2011 ISBN 978-1-904839-44-6 © Author, 2011 Published by Birmingham City University Centre for Environment and Society Research Faculty of Technology, Engineering and the Environment City Centre campus, Millennium Point, Curzon Street, Birmingham, B4 7XG, UK ii CONTENTS Contents ii List of illustrations ii Abstract ii Acknowledgements iii The development of guerrilla gardening 1 The purpose of guerrilla gardening 3 Case study: F Troop 6 The ethical implications of researching a guerrilla troop 7 F Troop digs 7 Guerrilla gardening as a movement 10 Understanding a ‘movement’ 10 The four stages 11 Acting collectively 12 Conclusion 15 References 16 List of illustrations Figure 1: Seed bombs moulded to look like hand grenades 2 Figure 2: A suburban guerrilla food-producing alleyway 4 Figure 3: A large skirt which hid the planting of saplings into the M41 5 Figure 4: Hardman’s spectrum of guerrilla groups 6 Figure 5: The location of many of F Troop’s digs 8 Figure 6: F Troop in action 9 Figure 7: The food alley, and F Troop’s Nasturtium arrangement 11 Figure 8: The four stages theory applied to guerrilla gardening troops 13 Abstract This paper explores the concept of guerrilla gardening. It begins with a history of unlawful growing before investigating why individuals take part in guerrilla gardening. -
CAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY SAVE the WORLD? Sarah Brown Steve Dovers Jodi Frawley Andrea Gaynor Heather Goodall Grace Karskens Steve Mullins
FORUM CAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY SAVE THE WORLD? Sarah Brown Steve Dovers Jodi Frawley Andrea Gaynor Heather Goodall Grace Karskens Steve Mullins As a ‘genre of history’ in Australia environmental history is relatively new, emerging in the 1960s and 70s from encounters between history, geography and the natural sciences in the context of growing environ- mental concern and activism. Interdisciplinary in orientation, the field also exhibited an unusually high level of engagement with current environmental issues and organisations. In this era of national research priorities and debates about the role and purpose of university-based research, it therefore seemed fair to ask: ‘can environmental history save the world?’ In response, a panel of new and established researchers offer their perspectives on issues of relevance and utility within this diverse and dynamic genre. This article has been peer-reviewed. TANGLED ROOTS, SPREADING BRANCHES Andrea Gaynor Dr. Andrea Gaynor is a member of the History Discipline Group in the School of Humanities at the University of Western Australia. Her most recent publication is Harvest of the Suburbs: An Environmental History of Growing Food in Australian Cities (UWA Press 2006). Richard Grove (2001) has outlined a complex international and multidisciplinary genealogy for environmental history, stretching back to the late eighteenth century and pioneers of (western) conservation such as Alexander von Humboldt and George Perkins Marsh. However, environ- mental history as a more self-conscious – and perhaps exclusive – area of historical research and teaching emerged in the USA in the 1970s, when scholars such as Roderick Nash and John Opie began running courses in ‘environmental history’ and forming networks of historians interested in past human-environment relations.