Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/10.15378/1848-9540.2023.46.07

The Art of Green Maintenance. Future-Making in Urban Gardening

Anna Horolets orcid.org/0000-0001-9193-6338 ; Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology University of Warsaw
Alexandra Schwell orcid.org/0000-0002-5972-7429 ; Department of Cultural Analysis University of Klagenfurt
Saša Poljak Istenič orcid.org/0000-0001-5277-7100 ; ZRC SAZU, Institute of Slovenian Ethnology

Abstract

Urban gardening plays a major role in how sustainable futures are imagined and envisaged, but the focus on its innovative potential tends to obscure the diverging logics at play. We draw upon ethnographic fieldwork at the community garden Onkraj gradbišča in Ljubljana,
which was conceptualized primarily as a social and cultural innovation. Yet, it continuously called for maintenance and care practices in which the organizers and the gardeners had to engage to make it last. We argue that maintenance labor is crucial for sustainable urban
future-making practices.

Keywords

urban gardening; socio-nature; innovation; maintenance; future-making; Ljubljana

Hrčak ID:

311824

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/311824

Publication date:

20.12.2023.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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