Beyond hardship and joy: Framing home gardening on insights from the European semi-periphery
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216224%3A14310%2F21%3A00119370" target="_blank" >RIV/00216224:14310/21:00119370 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/68378076:_____/21:00550764
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718521001639" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016718521001639</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.05.018" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.05.018</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Beyond hardship and joy: Framing home gardening on insights from the European semi-periphery
Original language description
European accounts of home gardening or food self-provisioning (FSP) typically frame these practices as primarily economically motivated and need related, and community gardening or urban agriculture as ethical sustain-ability strategies. Drawing on primary research on FSP in two East European countries, this paper combines analysis of socio-demographic and socio-economic characteristics of food self-provisioners with analysis of their motivations. There is strong evidence that while economic reasons are present FSP is primarily motivated, even in comparatively less affluent East European societies, by the desire to obtain fresh and healthy food and engage in a pleasurable activity. Based on our findings, we thus propose that a more appropriate framing for FSP in the European East and West alike is characterised by autonomy and community care. This would provide for a reengagement with the epistemology of sustainability-compliant behaviours and attitudes beyond the joy vs. limitations dichotomy. Given the performativity of social scientific research, rooting the framing on knowledge from East European societies, where FSP is widespread in all social groups, including the affluent middle class, is important for lending credence to alternative visions and practices that can enhance the sustainability of overdeveloped societies.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50701 - Cultural and economic geography
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA19-10694S" target="_blank" >GA19-10694S: Spaces of quiet sustainability: self-provisioning and sharing</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Geoforum
ISSN
0016-7185
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
126
Issue of the periodical within the volume
November
Country of publishing house
GB - UNITED KINGDOM
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
150-158
UT code for WoS article
000709531700014
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85111990034