2024/10/16 by Corinna Dengler, Hanna Völkle, Stewart Ware +1 · 1 voice · 5 citations
Agricultural and Biological Sciences · #Biology #Ecology #Philosophy #Sociology #Space (punctuation) #Transformation (genetics) #Urban Agriculture and Sustainability
paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/09644016.2024.2411934
published in Environmental Politics 34(5), 861-881 (Taylor & Francis)
openalex publication_date 2024/10/16 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
The relevance of civil society participation is well established in literature on environmental politics. However, the ability to join initiatives or movements actively fighting for a socially just future within biophysical limits is not equally distributed within societies. The configuration of spatial and temporal infrastructures in cities shapes how individuals interact with each other and the environment, thereby reproducing or alleviating intersectional inequalities. We connect literature on care, the commons, feminist time politics, and insurgent planning to discuss spatio-temporal infrastructures that promote space and time for care and participation. Building on feminist critiques of disembedded and disembodied cities, we draw upon examples from European cities to formulate an ‘educated dream’ about what an ecofeminist city could look like. In discussing different forms of scaling (up, out, deep) and bottom-linked transformation, we propose tangible steps towards the realisation of such a concrete utopia.