Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Space
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Cultivating Community and Place in Contested SpaceSurveying the Moral Landscape of Urban GardensKit BasoniThesis submitted to the Department of Anthro Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spaceopology Haverford College38808INTRODUCTIONDriving down Lancaster Avenue out of Main Line1 suburbia into the heart of West Philadelphia. Starbucks and Jaguar dealerships morph into storage warehouses and comer convenience/beer stores. Av the downtown skyline comes into view thefull-dentured smile of Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spacethe shop-lined suburban street has become gap-toothed and blighted by vacant, trash-filled lots. The shiny new Lexus on the road ahead is now an old dCultivating Community and Place in Contested Space
ented Buick. Turn right past a cemetery and a man selling carpets from the hack of his van. The street navigates a corridor of row homes and small, gaCultivating Community and Place in Contested SpaceSurveying the Moral Landscape of Urban GardensKit BasoniThesis submitted to the Department of Anthro Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Space, barbed wire enclosures, and...lush green fields, a bright red barn, grazing animals, and a pond with ducks and cattails. <4 pastoral mural painted on the side of a budding pulls your gaze from the bleak surroundings and directs your attention to the garden that grows in the lot below.* * ♦1 The Ma Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spacein Line, originally the name of the Pennsylvania Railroad line that runs from the city into the northwest suburbs of Philadelphia, is now the popularCultivating Community and Place in Contested Space
name for the wealthy community that lives along this route in Delaware and Chester counties.2Dispersed throughout the city of Philadelphia are over onCultivating Community and Place in Contested SpaceSurveying the Moral Landscape of Urban GardensKit BasoniThesis submitted to the Department of Anthro Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spaceps the most familiar manifestation of urban agriculture, a phenomenon that encompasses activities ranging from rooftop and private household gardens to large commercial agribusinesses. Community gardening, specifically, has a long history in the cities of America and has grown a positive and often i Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spacedealized reputation as a tool for urban revitalization and social change. But like a plant whose entire root system lies hidden beneath the ground, thCultivating Community and Place in Contested Space
ere is much more to these gardens than immediately meets the eye. Urban gardens arc not simply spaces for vegetable production: they arc not only pockCultivating Community and Place in Contested SpaceSurveying the Moral Landscape of Urban GardensKit BasoniThesis submitted to the Department of Anthro Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spacedividual and group values are generated, contested, and negotiated.It takes some digging to uncover the complexities of this phenomenon and anthropology provides useful tools for sun eying and excavating these landscapes. Fundamental to the discipline of anthropology is the ethnographic method, a re Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spacesearch approach that is based upon participant-observation fieldwork. Ethnography seeks to develop a nuanced understanding of an aspect of a culture oCultivating Community and Place in Contested Space
r society by taking into account rhe narratives of human experience. Frequently these narratives are considered and analyzed in relation to larger proCultivating Community and Place in Contested SpaceSurveying the Moral Landscape of Urban GardensKit BasoniThesis submitted to the Department of Anthro Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spaceien.cori!neighborhood that this project investigates the dimensions and functions of urban gardening.The theoretical framework for this project is based in anthropological discourses of the social production of the built environment. As Anthropologists Denise L. Lawrence and Sctha M. Low write: theo Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spaceries of built form “focus on the social, political, and economic forces that produce the built environment, and conversely, the impact of the sociallyCultivating Community and Place in Contested Space
produced built environment on social action" (Lawrence and Lou 1990: 482). Gardens are constructed Spaces that are embedded not only in a particular Cultivating Community and Place in Contested SpaceSurveying the Moral Landscape of Urban GardensKit BasoniThesis submitted to the Department of Anthro Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spaceistorical, political, and social processes that have cultivated these gardens, in addition to (and in conversation with) the specific goals, values, and ideologies that have nurtured their growth. It investigates the ways in which the social and political context and spatial dimensions of the garden Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spaces affect social practices, understandings of place, and articulations of community, and ultimately explores how these dynamics imbue these constructedCultivating Community and Place in Contested Space
landscapes with values and layers of meaning.4MethodologyLet US listen to the gardeners whose stories may hold more strategic and political power thaCultivating Community and Place in Contested SpaceSurveying the Moral Landscape of Urban GardensKit BasoniThesis submitted to the Department of Anthro Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Space a number of years, in an educational farming program. Not only did my interest in gardening develop through my experiences there, but it was a member of this camp community who connected me with the gardens in West Philadelphia. At the end of last summer 1 learned that a former employee of this cam Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spacep had just received a substantial amount of grant money to develop a garden on a vacant lot in Philadelphia. I was already considering agriculture, spCultivating Community and Place in Contested Space
ecifically urban agriculture, as a potential basis for a thesis topic, so I decided to sec where this lead would take me. Having only had experience wCultivating Community and Place in Contested SpaceSurveying the Moral Landscape of Urban GardensKit BasoniThesis submitted to the Department of Anthro Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spaceack at Haverford in the fall I contacted my friend in the city to find out what her project was all about. When I visited the site where the garden was being developed. I was excited to discover that another garden already existed in the adjacent plot. And I soon learned that just around the corner Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spacewas an even bigger community garden. Not only was my friend's garden easily accessible (for research5https://khothuvien.cori!purposes), but there wereCultivating Community and Place in Contested Space
two other urban gardening sites within the same block. I decided to base my research on these three gardens: their close proximity yet apparent diffeCultivating Community and Place in Contested SpaceSurveying the Moral Landscape of Urban GardensKit BasoniThesis submitted to the Department of Anthro Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spaceing season. During the winter months the gardens lie dormant and untended, thus only at the very beginning and end of my research process was I able to observe actual gardening activity. But although the gardens were frequently empty, a few key informants were able to help me track down many of the Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spacegarden members. Thus the bulk of my fieldwork was conducted through individual interviews with people involved at all levels of these gardening projecCultivating Community and Place in Contested Space
ts - gardeners, garden leaders. NGO employees. I did not speak with every member of each garden, but interviewed a substantial sampling from all threeCultivating Community and Place in Contested SpaceSurveying the Moral Landscape of Urban GardensKit BasoniThesis submitted to the Department of Anthro Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spacenderstanding of the gardens’ urban context. I looked at demographic information from the US Census and read about the historical (social, political, economic) processes that have shaped the city and Mill Creek Neighborhood (the location of my fieldwork). Through books, articles, promotional literatu Cultivating Community and Place in Contested Spacere, and interviews I gathered information about the history of community gardening in Philadelphia, and about the organizations that have promoted andCultivating Community and Place in Contested Space
supported these projects. I also attended a Community Stewardship Conference sponsored by the Pennsylvania Horticulture Society where over 200 peopleCultivating Community and Place in Contested SpaceSurveying the Moral Landscape of Urban GardensKit BasoniThesis submitted to the Department of AnthroCultivating Community and Place in Contested SpaceSurveying the Moral Landscape of Urban GardensKit BasoniThesis submitted to the Department of AnthroGọi ngay
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