Tyler Schafer

Community Gardening in an Unlikely City

The Struggle to Grow Together in Las Vegas

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Produktbeschreibung

Tyler Schafer examines a fledgling Las Vegas community garden and uses it as a case study to identify the ways group cultures create inside community gardens. Schaferargues that gardener's decisions, made consciously or not, shape their abilities to address the challenges faced by the residents of their city.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 202
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 451g
• ISBN-13: 9781793623126
• ISBN-10: 1793623120
• Artikelnr.: 60156474

Autorenporträt

By Tyler Schafer

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: Sowing Seeds of Community and Sustainability in a Wasteland
Chapter Two: "We Have a Community Garden in Las Vegas?" Situating
Sustainability in Sin City
Chapter Three: Miracle in the Mojave: Spiritual Place Narratives and
Cultivating Community
Chapter Four: Talking the Talk: Performativity and the Cultural Production
of a Community Garden
Chapter Five: "We Have Everything Else, but We Have No Foundation": The
Impact of Strategic Choices on Collective Identity Formation
Chapter Six: It's for Everyone, It's for No One: Explicit Inclusivity,
Implicit Exclusivity, and the Boundaries of Community
Chapter Seven: Committing to Community