Buchvorstellung "Grüne Öffentlichkeiten" mit Nina Schuster über das soziale Miteinander in städtischen Kleingärten

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While urban gardening receives a lot of attention in society and social science urban research, the historically more established and larger allotment gardens have so far remained strangely pale. Nina Schuster is changing this by researching social interaction in various allotment garden associations in a large city in western and eastern Germany. She asks how city dwellers come into contact with each other there despite social inequalities and to what extent places and specific practices in allotment gardens enable encounters and the negotiation of differences between different people. This shows that allotment gardens as micro-publics are important contexts for social negotiation processes in urban society.

Dr. phil. Nina Schuster is a sociologist and herself an allotment gardener. She has been teaching and researching for many years at TU Dortmund University in the Department of Urban and Regional Sociology in the Faculty of Spatial Planning. Substitute and visiting professorships as well as other teaching assignments have also taken her to Hamburg, Vienna, Duisburg-Essen, Marburg and Kassel. Her research focuses on social inequality, difference and conflict, including from feminist, queer and practice-theoretical perspectives. She is a co-founder and member of the editorial collective of sub\urban. zeitschrift für kritische stadtforschung. Her book "Grüne Öffentlichkeiten. Soziales Miteinander in städtischen Kleingärten" was published in 2024 by transcript Verlag. It is available at the ZfBK for € 30.

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