Abstract
cultivate collective practices that offer us a glimpse of what a progressively transformative polity can achieve. Enabled by an interlocking process of community and spatial production, this form of citizen participation encourages us to reconsider our relationships with one another, our environment and what constitutes effective political practice. Inspired by a range of writings on citizenship formation we term this “Do-It-Yourself” (DIY) Citizenship.
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages | 937-955 |
| Number of pages | 19 |
| Journal | Antipode: A Radical Jounal of Geography |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| Early online date | 28 Jan 2016 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 30 Sep 2016 |
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Keywords
- community gardens
- democracy
- citizenship
- neoliberalism
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Contesting neoliberal urbanism in Glasgow’s community gardens : the practice of DIY Citizenship. / Crossan, John; Cumbers, Andrew; McMaster, Robert; Shaw, Deirdre.
In: Antipode: A Radical Jounal of Geography, Vol. 48, No. 4, 30.09.2016, p. 937-955.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
TY - JOUR
T1 - Contesting neoliberal urbanism in Glasgow’s community gardens
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AU - Crossan, John
AU - Cumbers, Andrew
AU - McMaster, Robert
AU - Shaw, Deirdre
PY - 2016/9/30
Y1 - 2016/9/30
N2 - In this journal, it has been suggested that citizens practising community gardening “can become complicit in the construction of neoliberal hegemony”. Such hegemony is maintained, it is argued, through the day-to-day work of neoliberal citizen-subjects, which “alleviates the state from service provision”. In this paper we acknowledge that community gardens are vulnerable to neoliberal cooptation. But, even where neoliberal practices are evidenced, such practices do not define or foreclose other socio-political subjectivities at work in the gardens. We contend that community gardens in Glasgowcultivate collective practices that offer us a glimpse of what a progressively transformative polity can achieve. Enabled by an interlocking process of community and spatial production, this form of citizen participation encourages us to reconsider our relationships with one another, our environment and what constitutes effective political practice. Inspired by a range of writings on citizenship formation we term this “Do-It-Yourself” (DIY) Citizenship.
AB - In this journal, it has been suggested that citizens practising community gardening “can become complicit in the construction of neoliberal hegemony”. Such hegemony is maintained, it is argued, through the day-to-day work of neoliberal citizen-subjects, which “alleviates the state from service provision”. In this paper we acknowledge that community gardens are vulnerable to neoliberal cooptation. But, even where neoliberal practices are evidenced, such practices do not define or foreclose other socio-political subjectivities at work in the gardens. We contend that community gardens in Glasgowcultivate collective practices that offer us a glimpse of what a progressively transformative polity can achieve. Enabled by an interlocking process of community and spatial production, this form of citizen participation encourages us to reconsider our relationships with one another, our environment and what constitutes effective political practice. Inspired by a range of writings on citizenship formation we term this “Do-It-Yourself” (DIY) Citizenship.
KW - community gardens
KW - democracy
KW - citizenship
KW - neoliberalism
U2 - 10.1111/anti.12220
DO - 10.1111/anti.12220
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VL - 48
SP - 937
EP - 955
JO - Antipode
JF - Antipode
SN - 0066-4812
IS - 4
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