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The Aroma-Home Community Garden Project’s democratic narratives : embodied memory-stories of planting and cooking
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Haedicke, Susan C. (2018) The Aroma-Home Community Garden Project’s democratic narratives : embodied memory-stories of planting and cooking. Public Art Dialogue, 8 (1). pp. 114-130. doi:10.1080/21502552.2018.1430290
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/21502552.2018.1430290
Abstract
Aroma-Home, a community garden project just outside Paris, France, originated in aromatics, flavours, guerrilla gardening and conversations. In 2013, Sarah Harper of Friches Théâtre Urbain joined forces with local inhabitants to reclaim urban public spaces marred by construction and neglect and to heal social and environmental wounds caused by this damage. Creating tiny artistic (agri)cultural eco-oases in brownfields, participants began to alter both the urban landscape and attitudes towards active citizenship as they used a community garden/art-making process to establish an urban agricultural ‘commons’ of natural and cultural resources equitably shared. Here, the shared resources were the gardeners’ edible stories and storied edibles: the collective memories of food growing and preparation, the shared meals, communal gardening and the incipient community activism of the participants. This essay explores how Aroma-Home Community Garden grew a garden rooted in local life by drawing on embodied memory stories of land, horticulture and food — stories shared sometimes in words, sometimes in gardening and cooking activities, and it argues that the garden’s efficacy is located in the participants’ memories and practices.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HM Sociology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) > PN2000 Dramatic representation. The Theater |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Arts > Theatre, Performance and Cultural Policy Studies | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Community gardens -- Social aspects -- Paris (France), Community theater -- Social aspects, Friches Théâtre Urbain | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Public Art Dialogue | ||||||
| Publisher: | Taylor and Francis | ||||||
| ISSN: | 2150-2552 | ||||||
| Official Date: | 16 May 2018 | ||||||
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| Volume: | 8 | ||||||
| Number: | 1 | ||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 114-130 | ||||||
| DOI: | 10.1080/21502552.2018.1430290 | ||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
| Publisher Statement: | “This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Public Art Dialogue on16/05/2018, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/21502552.2018.1430290.” | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access |
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