Without permission: guerrilla gardening, contested places, spatial justice
Donnie Johnson Sackey
Abstract
This article examines the guerilla garden as a contested space of knowledge and a means of (re)composing urban landscapes. Guerilla gardening is the radical transformation of public property for illicit cultivation. As a practice, it involves individuals or groups of people transforming public and private spaces of neglect through the planting of crops or decorative plants. The purpose is to (re)compose decaying or unproductive spaces into sites of resilience and fecundity as a practice of spatial justice.
Topics & Concepts
Economic JusticeCitizen journalismPublic spacePermissionSociologySpace (punctuation)GeographyEnvironmental ethicsPolitical scienceLawArchitectural engineeringEngineeringLinguisticsPhilosophyUrban Agriculture and SustainabilityAgriculture, Land Use, Rural Development