240093 SE Gardening together, growing together (P4) (2015S)
Urban gardening as possibility for socio-cultural integration and/or "new identities"?
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Participation at first session is obligatory!
An/Abmeldung
Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").
- Anmeldung von So 01.02.2015 00:01 bis So 22.02.2015 23:59
- Abmeldung bis So 15.03.2015 23:59
Details
max. 40 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
Lehrende
Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
Freitag
06.03.
15:00 - 18:15
Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
Freitag
20.03.
15:00 - 18:15
Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
Freitag
17.04.
15:00 - 18:15
Seminarraum D, NIG 4. Stock
Freitag
29.05.
09:45 - 13:00
Hörsaal C, NIG 4. Stock
Freitag
19.06.
09:45 - 13:00
Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
Freitag
26.06.
09:45 - 13:00
Übungsraum (A414) NIG 4. Stock
Information
Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
Urban gardening has been rising in Vienna in the last years, as elsewhere in major urban areas all over the world. Nowadays, urban gardening has many faces, such as "green care", gardens for educational purposes, guerrilla gardening and private gardening. In this course we will focus specifically on community gardening as a possibility for socio-cultural integration.
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
In this seminar students are invited to explore some of the socio-cultural implications connected to community gardening and try to find answers to questions such as:
- In which ways does urban gardening connect people of different gender, generation, social and ethnic background and what are the consequences?
- How do urban gardeners appropriate different spaces and make them into planted places? Which notions of "public" and "private" are connected to this?
- Which values and forms of behaviour towards plants, animals (both "friends" and "foes" of the plants) and other people are communicated in urban gardening?
- Which notions of growth, life and death are expressed in gardening? Are these connected to religious or spiritual ideas and practices?
- In which respect does urban gardening create conflicts (among the gardeners or between gardeners and non-gardeners)?
- And, last but not least, does urban gardening create "new identities" in urban areas?
The seminar gives students a chance to plan, carry out and evaluate an empirical anthropological research project in small research teams on a sub-topic of urban gardening of their choice.
- In which ways does urban gardening connect people of different gender, generation, social and ethnic background and what are the consequences?
- How do urban gardeners appropriate different spaces and make them into planted places? Which notions of "public" and "private" are connected to this?
- Which values and forms of behaviour towards plants, animals (both "friends" and "foes" of the plants) and other people are communicated in urban gardening?
- Which notions of growth, life and death are expressed in gardening? Are these connected to religious or spiritual ideas and practices?
- In which respect does urban gardening create conflicts (among the gardeners or between gardeners and non-gardeners)?
- And, last but not least, does urban gardening create "new identities" in urban areas?
The seminar gives students a chance to plan, carry out and evaluate an empirical anthropological research project in small research teams on a sub-topic of urban gardening of their choice.
Prüfungsstoff
Students will carry out explorative empirical research in small groups among different urban gardeners in Vienna over the course of the spring term. They will develop their research questions, carry out background research, formulate hypotheses, find adequate research methods such as participant observation, photo elicitation, one-to-one interviews and group interviews. (I will help students find institutions and groups where they can carry out research in English and/or other languages than German, if necessary.) They will analyse their data and present their findings in innovative formats.
The seminar is highly interactive. We will shift between plenary sessions, work in small groups and individual work. The exact time schedule is communicated to the students at the beginning of the seminar. Based on the premise that students and lecturer form a community of research and learning, a special focus is put on a) constructive criticism of each other’s work and b) on the evaluation of the seminar (reflective paper on one seminar session, short feedback sessions at the end of most seminars, final seminar evaluation).
The seminar is highly interactive. We will shift between plenary sessions, work in small groups and individual work. The exact time schedule is communicated to the students at the beginning of the seminar. Based on the premise that students and lecturer form a community of research and learning, a special focus is put on a) constructive criticism of each other’s work and b) on the evaluation of the seminar (reflective paper on one seminar session, short feedback sessions at the end of most seminars, final seminar evaluation).
Literatur
Conan Michael (1999), "From Vernacular Gardens to a Social Anthropology of Gardening" in: Perspectives on Garden Histories, www.doaks.org/etexts.html
Reynolds Richard (2008), On Guerrilla Gardening. A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
Stephen L., Jean J. Schensul, Margaret Diane LeCompte, 1999, Essential Ethnographic Methods: Observations, Interviews and Questionnaires, Sage: Thousand Oaks. Spradley James
Reynolds Richard (2008), On Guerrilla Gardening. A Handbook for Gardening without Boundaries. Bloomsbury Publishing PLC.
Stephen L., Jean J. Schensul, Margaret Diane LeCompte, 1999, Essential Ethnographic Methods: Observations, Interviews and Questionnaires, Sage: Thousand Oaks. Spradley James
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:39