Following the plant: The political ecology of a Hmong community garden
Author(s):
L'annunziata, Elena
Format:
Journal article
Citation:
Humboldt Journal Of Social Relations, Volume 33, Issue 1 (2010). pp. 97-134.
Language:
English
Abstract:
Community gardens are one of the many kinds of urban agricultural green spaces that exist across the United States. Situating the Henderson Community Garden in Eureka California, a predominantly Hmong garden, within the existing literature on community gardens, I will explore the unique ways in which this garden diverges from most contemporary research. Using a feminist political ecology framework, with an explicitly intersectional feminist analysis, this research project seeks to explore the multiple, and often competing ways in which the community garden space is understood. The purpose and value of this comparative research project is to force a rethinking of these gardens spaces as plural, complex, and tension-filled cultural spaces that fall under the otherwise universalizing “community garden” heading. This rethinking is an essential component to illuminating not only the divergent meanings of the garden, but also for illuminating how access to the community garden is always socially, culturally and politically mediated. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2017 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: journal abstract)