The urban political ecology of the commons or commoning as a socio-natural process: The case of the Peri-Urban Gardening group in Thessaloniki

Maria Karagianni

Urban Studies, 2024, vol. 61, issue 6, 1147-1167

Abstract: This paper casts the foundations for the development of an urban political ecology of the commons, drawing on the case of a guerrilla gardening initiative in Thessaloniki, Greece. In doing so, it draws on the literature of urban political ecology and its ontological and epistemological underpinnings and argues for a reconceptualisation of urban commoning as a socio-natural, productive process. Understanding commoning as inherently socio-natural, the product of discursive and material practices, opens new horizons for both academic research and activist engagement in efforts to imagine and build alternative urban futures. The commoning practices of the Peri-Urban Gardening Group of Karatassou, in Thessaloniki, serve as a heuristic case study for the development of a holistic methodological framework that uncovers the equal significance of discursive and material commoning practices and processes.

Keywords: environment; public space; social justice; sustainability; theory; urban commons; urban political ecology; 环境; 公共空间; 社会正义; å ¯æŒ ç»­æ€§; ç †è®º; 城市公地; åŸŽå¸‚æ”¿æ²»ç”Ÿæ€ (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1177/00420980231202874

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