Project description
Urban agriculture – growing social equality
The idea of urban farms has been blooming with positivity in many cities across the EU. While the emphasis has been on environmental benefits, scholars are shifting attention to social justice. In this context, the EU-funded JUSTGREEN Cities project will explore the relationship between urban agriculture and social (in)justice in urban space. Specifically, it will study the link between environmental sustainability and social justice from the ground up. It will do so by examining the relationship between urban agriculture and Roma integration in Paris, Berlin, and Sofia, where several community gardens actively support Roma populations and vulnerable groups. The findings will shed light on how cities may become more socially just and environmentally sustainable.
Objective
Cities have become epicentres for confronting climate change worldwide. Widely acknowledged for its environmental benefits, urban agriculture is in particular blooming in Europe. However, by putting the emphasis on environmental progress rather than social justice, it may support social and spatial inequalities. Recent shifts in scholarship have started critically examining urban agriculture, but a clear evaluation of its social, economic and cultural impacts in European cities is still missing. This project intends to fill this gap by exploring the relationship between urban agriculture and social (in)justice in urban space. The project's research aims are threefold: 1) conceptually, it seeks to explore the compatibility between environmental sustainability and social justice from the ground up; 2) empirically, it will examine the relationship between urban agriculture and Roma integration in three European cities, Paris, Berlin and Sofia, where a number of community gardens actively support Roma populations and vulnerable groups; 3) methodologically, it intends to develop an intersectional analytical framework to explore environmental action. The account will centrally involve a novel perspective on how cities may become more socially just and environmentally sustainable. The project will adopt an interdisciplinary research strategy, based on ethnographic investigation, historical urban analysis and participatory research. The MSCA fellowship will allow the ER to become a leading researcher in the critical geographies of urban sustainability and progress in her academic career in order to secure a tenure-track position in the EU academic job market.
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)
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10623 Berlin
Germany
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