TY - JOUR

T1 - The Place of Greening

T2 - Comparing Civic Engagement Scenes of Urban Natures across Danish Cities

AU - Blok, Anders

AU - Juvik, Amanda K.

AU - Kvist Møller, Anna Helene

AU - Raaschou-Pedersen, Jonas Skjold

AU - Laage-Thomsen, Jakob

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - As elsewhere in Europe, cities in Denmark have witnessed a surge in civic urban nature engagement, such as place- and practice-based initiatives (e.g., public-access community gardens, organic food collectives, and grazing associations that enhance biodiversity). While this expansion of urban green communities, as we call them, is widely noted in the literature, less attention has been paid to the comparative variability of their local civic expression. In this article, we use digital methods to map out the group styles, the spatial intergroup networks, and the cultural-political value landscapes of 130 urban green communities across the four largest cities in Denmark. To compare results, we develop the concept of "civic engagement scenes" as a way of responding to recent developments in cultural and political sociology. Overall, we show how this notion allows for interpreting civic greening groups: they are neither neighborhood-based endeavors nor hubs of social movement mobilization, but rather geographies of co-engagement that span cities while also forge new senses and practices of place.

AB - As elsewhere in Europe, cities in Denmark have witnessed a surge in civic urban nature engagement, such as place- and practice-based initiatives (e.g., public-access community gardens, organic food collectives, and grazing associations that enhance biodiversity). While this expansion of urban green communities, as we call them, is widely noted in the literature, less attention has been paid to the comparative variability of their local civic expression. In this article, we use digital methods to map out the group styles, the spatial intergroup networks, and the cultural-political value landscapes of 130 urban green communities across the four largest cities in Denmark. To compare results, we develop the concept of "civic engagement scenes" as a way of responding to recent developments in cultural and political sociology. Overall, we show how this notion allows for interpreting civic greening groups: they are neither neighborhood-based endeavors nor hubs of social movement mobilization, but rather geographies of co-engagement that span cities while also forge new senses and practices of place.

KW - civic scenes

KW - co-engagement networks

KW - intercity comparison

KW - urban greening

KW - SPACE

KW - COMMUNITIES

KW - GARDENS

KW - civic scenes

KW - co-engagement networks

KW - intercity comparison

KW - urban greening

U2 - 10.1177/15356841211073589

DO - 10.1177/15356841211073589

M3 - Journal article

VL - 21

SP - 91

EP - 112

JO - City and Community

JF - City and Community

SN - 1535-6841

IS - 2

M1 - 15356841211073589

ER -