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Tyler Schafer examines a fledgling Las Vegas community garden and uses it as a case study to identify the ways group cultures create inside community gardens. Schaferargues that gardener’s decisions, made consciously or not, shape their abilities to address the challenges faced by the residents of their city.
List of contents
Chapter One: Sowing Seeds of Community and Sustainability in a Wasteland
Chapter Two: "We Have a Community Garden in Las Vegas?" Situating Sustainability in Sin City
Chapter Three: Miracle in the Mojave: Spiritual Place Narratives and Cultivating Community
Chapter Four: Talking the Talk: Performativity and the Cultural Production of a Community Garden
Chapter Five: "We Have Everything Else, but We Have No Foundation": The Impact of Strategic Choices on Collective Identity Formation
Chapter Six: It's for Everyone, It's for No One: Explicit Inclusivity, Implicit Exclusivity, and the Boundaries of Community
Chapter Seven: Committing to Community
About the author
Tyler Schafer is assistant professor of sociology at California State University, Stanislaus.
Summary
Tyler Schafer examines a fledgling Las Vegas community garden and uses it as a case study to identify the ways group cultures create inside community gardens. He argues that gardener's decisions, made consciously or not, shape their abilities to address the challenges faced by the residents of their city.
