Sowing Resilience and Contestation in Times of Crises: The Case of Urban Gardening Movements in Barcelona

摘要: Urban gardens have been observed to multiply in response crises. However, the meaning and motivations behind emergence of gardening movements varies greatly over space time. In this paper we argue that bottom up urban initiatives taking place Southern European countries form land occupation communalization represent forms resistance enhance social cohesion collective action times need. Specifically, research examines role (i) building community resilience (ii) articulating contestation development pressure commodified lifestyles. Our is based on data collected among 27 Barcelona, Spain, including 13 self-governed 14 public gardens. Data were from semi-structured interviews with gardeners staff Barcelona City Council. results show mechanisms through which can contribute build by nurturing ecological diversity, generating transmitting local knowledge, creating opportunities for self-organization. We further examine collectively managed as commons emerge a privatization space, offer experiment new models how be seen an emerging green provides suitable ground ‘sow’ crises socio-ecological deterioration.