JEHLIČKA, Petr, Branko ANČIĆ, Petr DANĚK and Mladen DOMAZET. Beyond hardship and joy: Framing home gardening on insights from the European semi-periphery. Geoforum. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2021, vol. 126, November, p. 150-158. ISSN 0016-7185. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.05.018.
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Original name Beyond hardship and joy: Framing home gardening on insights from the European semi-periphery
Authors JEHLIČKA, Petr (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution), Branko ANČIĆ (guarantor), Petr DANĚK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Mladen DOMAZET.
Edition Geoforum, Amsterdam, Elsevier, 2021, 0016-7185.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Article in a journal
Field of Study 50701 Cultural and economic geography
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
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Impact factor Impact factor: 3.926
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14310/21:00119370
Organization unit Faculty of Science
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.05.018
UT WoS 000709531700014
Keywords in English Food self-provisioning; Semi-periphery; Eastern Europe; Politics of knowledge production; Sustainability
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
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Abstract
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.
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GA19-10694S, research and development projectName: Prostory tiché udržitelnosti: samozásobitelství a sdílení
Investor: Czech Science Foundation
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