Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East
European Food Gardens

J 2021

Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Food Gardens

SOVOVÁ, Lucie, Petr JEHLIČKA and Petr DANĚK

Basic information

Original name

Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Food Gardens

Authors

SOVOVÁ, Lucie (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Petr JEHLIČKA (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution) and Petr DANĚK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Sustainability, MDPI, 2021, 2071-1050

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Článek v odborném periodiku

Field of Study

50700 5.7 Social and economic geography

Country of publisher

Switzerland

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

References:

URL

Impact factor

Impact factor: 3.889

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14310/21:00119004

Organization unit

Faculty of Science

DOI

http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13095193

UT WoS

000650868300001

Keywords in English

food self-provisioning; care; generosity; responsibility; learned intentionality; gardening; food sharing

Abstract

V originále

This study contributes to research proposing the ethics of care framework as a way of imagining a food system that cares for Others. We expand this exploration to the everyday practice of home gardening and the related social relationships and material flows. This area complements current scholarship, which mostly focuses on food-related care as a form of activism driven by intentionality and knowledge about the effects of consumption choices. Combining a survey of a representative sample of the population and an in-depth qualitative study, our paper highlights the importance of inconspicuous but materially significant food self-provisioning and sharing practices as caring behaviors that do not rely on educational campaigns but draw on the desire to produce healthy food for human Others. Home grown food is distributed in the generalized reciprocity mode within wide food-sharing networks. The desire to produce healthy food further translates into the adoption of caring methods of cultivation that benefit non-human Others involved in the garden ecosystems.

Links

GA19-10694S, research and development project

Name: Prostory tiché udržitelnosti: samozásobitelství a sdílení

Investor: Czech Science Foundation

Citovat

SOVOVÁ, Lucie, Petr JEHLIČKA and Petr DANĚK. Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Food Gardens. Sustainability. MDPI, 2021, vol. 13, No 9, p. "5193", 17 pp. ISSN 2071-1050. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13095193.

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SOVOVÁ, Lucie, Petr JEHLIČKA and Petr DANĚK. Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Food Gardens. \textit{Sustainability}. MDPI, 2021, vol.~13, No~9, p.~''5193'', 17 pp. ISSN~2071-1050. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su13095193.

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