Hasson, Alban Marius;
(2024)
Urban Agriculture & Democratisation: Comparing Allotments & Community Gardens trajectories in London.
Doctoral thesis (Ph.D), UCL (University College London).
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Abstract
This PhD Thesis presents the contributions of urban agriculture (UA) practitioners in London in expanding the political space to envision a more democratic food regime. Building on Webster and Engberg-Pedersen’s political space framework (2002), it argues that democratisation is emerging from a set of contestations by UA practitioners within existing and emerging institutional channels, but also through the historical struggle of contesting hegemonic political discourses, both of which are co-constituted through developments in specific social and political practices. This thesis compares the allotment and community garden trajectories in their diversity and assesses the democratic processes produced in seeking another way of engaging with food. Through historical and ethnographic in-depth case studies, the thesis sheds light on the practices of commoning and the struggles faced by UA practitioners to create a more just and sustainable food system for London. By considering five democratic processes of UA necessary to expand the political space of food towards a more democratic food regime ideal: fostering food security, expanding health benefits, reclaiming the commons, building places of interaction and representation, and decoupling from the regimes; and exploring how community UA practitioners engage with, negotiate, or resist current governance networks to expand the political space towards these democratic processes, this thesis highlights some of the discriminations at play. It enables the proposition of solutions to continue to build intersectional environmental and food justice in London’s UA trajectories.
| Type: | Thesis (Doctoral) |
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| Qualification: | Ph.D |
| Title: | Urban Agriculture & Democratisation: Comparing Allotments & Community Gardens trajectories in London |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © The Author 2024. Original content in this thesis is licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > Development Planning Unit |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10196646 |
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