Resumen de Conflation in political gardening: concepts and practice

Lucy Rose Wright, Ross Fraser Young

• This chapter introduces the re-emerging political characteristic of urban gardening (UG) (Certomà and Tornaghi, 2015 ). Our contribution presents an understanding of the importance process has for a group seeking spatial justice through engagement in UG. The garden’s local political environment shapes the process by which a group seeks to tackle localised spatial injustice. Spatial justice refers to ‘an intentional and focused emphasis on the spatial or geographical aspects of justice and injustice’ (Soja, 2009 : 2). To understand this ‘political characteristic’, the chapter will explore the influence of and relationship between neoliberalisation and UG