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Collective gardening spaces have existed across Lisbon, Portugal for decades.
This article attends to the makeshift natures made by black migrants from Portugal’s
former colonies, and the racial urban geography thrown into relief by the differing
fortunes of white Portuguese community gardening spaces. Conceptualising urban gardens
as commons-in-the-making, we explore subaltern urbanism and the emergence of
autonomous gardening commons on the one hand, and the state erasure, overwriting
or construction of top-down commons on the other. While showing that urban gardening
forges commons of varying persistence, we also demonstrate the ways through
which the commons are always closely entwined with processes of enclosure. We further
argue that urban gardening commons are divergent and cannot be judged against any
abstract ideal of the commons. In conclusion, we suggest that urban gardening commons
do not have a “common” in common.
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Urban agriculture Community gardens Lisbon Portugal Subaltern urbanism Commons
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Citation
Ginn, F., & Ascensão, E. (2018). Autonomy, erasure, and persistence in the urban gardening commons. Antipode, 50(4), 929-952. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12398.
Publisher
Wiley