We have noticed a recent resurgence and an evident cultural change in urban vegetable gardening, in Italy as in many other Western countries. In the article we discuss some findings coming from a qualitative inquiry integrating sociological and semiotic perspectives and methods on narratives and practices of the new generation of vegetable gardeners in the Italian city of Bologna. Among the main reasons for gardening, the interviewees strongly stressed «the connection with nature». Thus, our research question was: what kind of nature - more precisely, «natures» - are conceived and «produced» by gardeners engaged in food self-production in their urban 30-40 square metre patches of land? The ideas of nature emerging from our analysis of gardeners' practices and narratives are four, inside a continuum between the two ideal types of yard gardens and domestic forest: scenery-nature, object-nature, subject-nature and anti-subject-nature, as we have called them. These conceptions mainly coexist in gardeners' practices, in different and even conflicting combinations.

BARTOLETTI, R., Cecchelin, G. (2016). Narrazioni e pratiche della natura in città: gli orti urbani tra cortili e foreste domestiche. STUDI CULTURALI, 2016(1), 39-60 [10.1405/83211].

Narrazioni e pratiche della natura in città: gli orti urbani tra cortili e foreste domestiche

BARTOLETTI, ROBERTA
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2016

Abstract

We have noticed a recent resurgence and an evident cultural change in urban vegetable gardening, in Italy as in many other Western countries. In the article we discuss some findings coming from a qualitative inquiry integrating sociological and semiotic perspectives and methods on narratives and practices of the new generation of vegetable gardeners in the Italian city of Bologna. Among the main reasons for gardening, the interviewees strongly stressed «the connection with nature». Thus, our research question was: what kind of nature - more precisely, «natures» - are conceived and «produced» by gardeners engaged in food self-production in their urban 30-40 square metre patches of land? The ideas of nature emerging from our analysis of gardeners' practices and narratives are four, inside a continuum between the two ideal types of yard gardens and domestic forest: scenery-nature, object-nature, subject-nature and anti-subject-nature, as we have called them. These conceptions mainly coexist in gardeners' practices, in different and even conflicting combinations.
2016
BARTOLETTI, R., Cecchelin, G. (2016). Narrazioni e pratiche della natura in città: gli orti urbani tra cortili e foreste domestiche. STUDI CULTURALI, 2016(1), 39-60 [10.1405/83211].
BARTOLETTI, ROBERTA; Cecchelin, Giulia
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