Project Duration: 2016 - 2018
The project focuses on Prague allotments as an empirical example of the changing approach to urban nature and urban planning after the fall of socialism. Allotments represent spaces of affection and care. As urban nature, they are spaces of intense political negotiations. The project aims to analyse how allotments reflect changes in urban developments and nature, politics of urban space as well as the experience of the city and home. Combining the micro and macro perspective in a multi-method research (Burawoy’s (1998) extended case method), the project will (1) produce detailed understanding of practices/experiences of urban gardening and their changes in the transformation from socialism to post-socialism (2) explore how changes in imaginaries and experiences of home, nature and the city manifest and (3) analyse negotiations over the spaces of allotment gardening. The objective is to show how the transformation from socialism has affected the complexities of the politics of urban nature, and what its impact is on everyday experience of home and nature in the post-socialist city.
Goals:
To establish practices of urban gardening and their changes from socialism to post-socialism to analyse how the changing practices reflect changing experience of home, nature and city to provide an empirically based analysis of developments in the politics of urban nature over the given period.
Principal Investigator:
Members of the project team:
- Ing. arch. Irena Boumová, Ph.D.
- Mgr. Tomáš Hoření Samec, Ph.D.
Themes:
Housing, City and Village, Lifestyle
Contracting authority:
Grant Agency of the Czech Republic
Department:
Related Publications:
Urban Political Ecology of Worth and Value: Enacting Allotments in Media Discourse
Themes: bydleni, legitimita, media, mestoavesnice
Rytmy budování a péče / Geografie ‚zahrádkářů a zahrádkářek
Themes: bydleni, mestoavesnice, zivotniprostredi
Zahrádkové osady jako prostor soukromý, veřejný, nebo jiný? O neoliberalizaci správy městského prostoru
Themes: bydleni, mestoavesnice
The Urbanization of Nature in a (Post)Socialist Metropolis: An Urban Political Ecology of Allotment Gardening
Themes: mestoavesnice
Between roots and rhizomes: Towards a post-phenomenology of home
Themes: bydleni
Staying in a fallout shelter: exploring ostalgia through post-socialist heterotopia.
Themes: mestoavesnice, transformace
