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to the Gardening-Conference 2000:
"Perspectives
of Small-Scale Farming in urban and rural areas
- about the social and ecological necessity of gardens and informal agriculture" from 21. - 25. July 2000 in Berlin Infos: Work group "Small-scale farming and Gardens in urban and rural Areas", C/O Free University of Berlin, Institute of Sociology, Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen, gartenkonferenz@gmx.de , http://userpage.fu-berlin.de/~garten/ |
Heide Inhetveen
Georg-August Universitaet Göttingen,
Institut fuer Rurale Entwicklung
Horticulture - Image and example for a preventive economy
Gardens were always and are in many places of the world elementary for
human existence. The garden can be seen as a "total socila fact" in the
sense of Marcel Mauss, from its special cross-roads characteristic. It
is an image of social reality in social, economical, ecological and cultural
sense. It has and renews for the gardeners important potentials for surmounting
individual or social crises and for visualizing another future. Gardens
are not only images of social conditions, but also examples for alternative
action. We will present the concept of preventive economy using peasant
subsistence gardening and ask for the conditions for its social realization.