Our purpose in this paper is to conceptualize and demonstrate an integrated analytical method for... more Our purpose in this paper is to conceptualize and demonstrate an integrated analytical method for using both qualitative and quantitative data through geographic information systems (GIS) and ethnography. We acknowledge that the use of both types of data has been possible in GIS for some time, particularly for representation purposes. However, a recursive integration of different forms of data at the analysis level has been less explored and minimally theorized. Drawing on recent work in critical GIS and feminist perspectives, we suggest that visualization offers a strong technique for this effort but we approach it from the analytical base of grounded theory. Thus, we present an example of how grounded theory and visualization might be used together to construct an integrated analysis strategy that is both iterative and reflexive, both contextual and conceptual. We use Knigge's work on community gardens in Buffalo, New York, to provide a substantive example of the proposed meth...
"Abstract The creation of community gardens in urban areas is a common, community-based stra... more "Abstract The creation of community gardens in urban areas is a common, community-based strategy for the temporary reuse of vacant lots that are laid bare by the demolition of deteriorated and dilapidated buildings in declining urban neighborhoods. This research focuses on the ways in which the local, everyday spatial activities of urban community members intersect and overlap with social, economic, and cultural aspects of the surrounding neighborhood to create places of community where people from diverse backgrounds can come together, claiming and defining the vacant spaces within their neighborhood, creating a respite in the urban landscape through their community gardening activities. The study asks in what ways are community gardeners individually and collectively producing new forms of public space through spatial and social practices associated with community gardening, and how do those interactions relate to civic engagement, empowerment, and citizenship. Additionally, the study concerns the relationship between the local, everyday spatial practices of community gardeners and processes of uneven development at the local scale, and the ways that they intersect with larger structural forces of globalization, neoliberal policies, economic restructuring, and welfare retrenchment. The methodological goals of this research project, which uses a selection of qualitative and quantitative methods, including GIS, exploratory data analysis, and visualization, are to provide the framework for integrating ethnographic research methods, quantitative research, and GIS. This project seeks to demonstrate that qualitative and quantitative data can be integrated in complementary ways through the use of GIS and visualization techniques at the level of analysis to detect patterns and themes in order to recursively build theory grounded in data using the urban vacant lot community gardens within the City of Buffalo, New York as a study site. The study highlights the importance of public space in a political climate that is intently set on devolution and privatization and devolution, and the ways that community gardening organizations are filling a variety of roles that are well beyond the scope of community gardening, including the provision of emergency and social services and engagement in local, community-based economic development activities. development, community gardens, globalization."
If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination... more If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination, volume/issue, and date of publication details. And where the final published version is provided on the Research Portal, if citing you are again advised to check the publisher's website for any subsequent corrections.
This paper is part of a larger research project on community gardens in Buffalo, NY that found a ... more This paper is part of a larger research project on community gardens in Buffalo, NY that found a close connection between vacant lot community gardens in marginalized neighborhoods and local efforts to strengthen the communit food system and support community food security (Knigge 2006). As the
research progressed, an important theme emerges: it became apparent that many community gardening organizations were also engaged in the provision of other types of social services and care well beyond those typically associated with community gardening, including after school programs, tutoring, youth services and emergency/refugee services – community social services that have been devolved, reduced or dismantled from government programs in recent years. In
light of this finding, the purpose of this paper is to look
closer at the interrelatedness of issues of public space,
citizenship, gender and race and larger structural processes
of deindustrialization, globalization and state restructuring. It documents the possible consequences of a dismantling of the welfare state and the devolution of responsibilities for social welfare to individuals and communities, enabled by both neoliberal and conservative forces. In particular, attention is given to the use of public policy to relocate responsibility for social welfare in the private sphere, locating care in the community (Staeheli 2003: 817). To examine these issues,
a feminist and critical perspective of public space, citizenship,
community and geographies of care, welfare and responsibility is taken (Lawson 2007; Staeheli & Brown 2003), albeit coloured by other critiques of public space and neoliberal reforms (Brenner & Theodore 2002; Leitner & Sheppard 2007).
The first section of the paper describes the research area with a short history of the economic conditions and the development of community gardens in the City of Buffalo and the methods used for this research project. The next section discusses the concepts of public space, citizenship, gender and geographies of care. This discussion is supported by three case studies of community gardens in Buffalo, NY that are engaged in the provision of an assortment of social and community services. The paper concludes with a summary of the kinds of care and support provided by the community gardening organizations and their importance for individual
community members. It situates the work of the community
within larger global processes and notes that the effects of larger structural processes, such as deindustrialization,
privatization, and state restructuring are clearly felt at the local everyday level of Buffalo’s residents. Their lives within the context of social, political and economic conditions are related to and cannot be separated from the larger global context.
Abstract. Our purpose in this paper is to conceptualize and demonstrate an integrated analytical
... more Abstract. Our purpose in this paper is to conceptualize and demonstrate an integrated analytical
method for using both qualitative and quantitative data through geographic information systems
(GIS) and ethnography. We acknowledge that the use of both types of data has been possible in GIS
for some time, particularly for representation purposes. However, a recursive integration of different
forms of data at the analysis level has been less explored and minimally theorized. Drawing on recent
work in critical GIS and feminist perspectives, we suggest that visualization offers a strong technique
for this effort but we approach it from the analytical base of grounded theory. Thus, we present an
example of how grounded theory and visualization might be used together to construct an integrated
analysis strategy that is both iterative and reflexive, both contextual and conceptual.We use Knigge's
work on community gardens in Buffalo, New York, to provide a substantive example of the proposed
methods.
Our purpose in this paper is to conceptualize and demonstrate an integrated analytical method for... more Our purpose in this paper is to conceptualize and demonstrate an integrated analytical method for using both qualitative and quantitative data through geographic information systems (GIS) and ethnography. We acknowledge that the use of both types of data has been possible in GIS for some time, particularly for representation purposes. However, a recursive integration of different forms of data at the analysis level has been less explored and minimally theorized. Drawing on recent work in critical GIS and feminist perspectives, we suggest that visualization offers a strong technique for this effort but we approach it from the analytical base of grounded theory. Thus, we present an example of how grounded theory and visualization might be used together to construct an integrated analysis strategy that is both iterative and reflexive, both contextual and conceptual. We use Knigge's work on community gardens in Buffalo, New York, to provide a substantive example of the proposed meth...
"Abstract The creation of community gardens in urban areas is a common, community-based stra... more "Abstract The creation of community gardens in urban areas is a common, community-based strategy for the temporary reuse of vacant lots that are laid bare by the demolition of deteriorated and dilapidated buildings in declining urban neighborhoods. This research focuses on the ways in which the local, everyday spatial activities of urban community members intersect and overlap with social, economic, and cultural aspects of the surrounding neighborhood to create places of community where people from diverse backgrounds can come together, claiming and defining the vacant spaces within their neighborhood, creating a respite in the urban landscape through their community gardening activities. The study asks in what ways are community gardeners individually and collectively producing new forms of public space through spatial and social practices associated with community gardening, and how do those interactions relate to civic engagement, empowerment, and citizenship. Additionally, the study concerns the relationship between the local, everyday spatial practices of community gardeners and processes of uneven development at the local scale, and the ways that they intersect with larger structural forces of globalization, neoliberal policies, economic restructuring, and welfare retrenchment. The methodological goals of this research project, which uses a selection of qualitative and quantitative methods, including GIS, exploratory data analysis, and visualization, are to provide the framework for integrating ethnographic research methods, quantitative research, and GIS. This project seeks to demonstrate that qualitative and quantitative data can be integrated in complementary ways through the use of GIS and visualization techniques at the level of analysis to detect patterns and themes in order to recursively build theory grounded in data using the urban vacant lot community gardens within the City of Buffalo, New York as a study site. The study highlights the importance of public space in a political climate that is intently set on devolution and privatization and devolution, and the ways that community gardening organizations are filling a variety of roles that are well beyond the scope of community gardening, including the provision of emergency and social services and engagement in local, community-based economic development activities. development, community gardens, globalization."
If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination... more If citing, it is advised that you check and use the publisher's definitive version for pagination, volume/issue, and date of publication details. And where the final published version is provided on the Research Portal, if citing you are again advised to check the publisher's website for any subsequent corrections.
This paper is part of a larger research project on community gardens in Buffalo, NY that found a ... more This paper is part of a larger research project on community gardens in Buffalo, NY that found a close connection between vacant lot community gardens in marginalized neighborhoods and local efforts to strengthen the communit food system and support community food security (Knigge 2006). As the
research progressed, an important theme emerges: it became apparent that many community gardening organizations were also engaged in the provision of other types of social services and care well beyond those typically associated with community gardening, including after school programs, tutoring, youth services and emergency/refugee services – community social services that have been devolved, reduced or dismantled from government programs in recent years. In
light of this finding, the purpose of this paper is to look
closer at the interrelatedness of issues of public space,
citizenship, gender and race and larger structural processes
of deindustrialization, globalization and state restructuring. It documents the possible consequences of a dismantling of the welfare state and the devolution of responsibilities for social welfare to individuals and communities, enabled by both neoliberal and conservative forces. In particular, attention is given to the use of public policy to relocate responsibility for social welfare in the private sphere, locating care in the community (Staeheli 2003: 817). To examine these issues,
a feminist and critical perspective of public space, citizenship,
community and geographies of care, welfare and responsibility is taken (Lawson 2007; Staeheli & Brown 2003), albeit coloured by other critiques of public space and neoliberal reforms (Brenner & Theodore 2002; Leitner & Sheppard 2007).
The first section of the paper describes the research area with a short history of the economic conditions and the development of community gardens in the City of Buffalo and the methods used for this research project. The next section discusses the concepts of public space, citizenship, gender and geographies of care. This discussion is supported by three case studies of community gardens in Buffalo, NY that are engaged in the provision of an assortment of social and community services. The paper concludes with a summary of the kinds of care and support provided by the community gardening organizations and their importance for individual
community members. It situates the work of the community
within larger global processes and notes that the effects of larger structural processes, such as deindustrialization,
privatization, and state restructuring are clearly felt at the local everyday level of Buffalo’s residents. Their lives within the context of social, political and economic conditions are related to and cannot be separated from the larger global context.
Abstract. Our purpose in this paper is to conceptualize and demonstrate an integrated analytical
... more Abstract. Our purpose in this paper is to conceptualize and demonstrate an integrated analytical
method for using both qualitative and quantitative data through geographic information systems
(GIS) and ethnography. We acknowledge that the use of both types of data has been possible in GIS
for some time, particularly for representation purposes. However, a recursive integration of different
forms of data at the analysis level has been less explored and minimally theorized. Drawing on recent
work in critical GIS and feminist perspectives, we suggest that visualization offers a strong technique
for this effort but we approach it from the analytical base of grounded theory. Thus, we present an
example of how grounded theory and visualization might be used together to construct an integrated
analysis strategy that is both iterative and reflexive, both contextual and conceptual.We use Knigge's
work on community gardens in Buffalo, New York, to provide a substantive example of the proposed
methods.
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research progressed, an important theme emerges: it became apparent that many community gardening organizations were also engaged in the provision of other types of social services and care well beyond those typically associated with community gardening, including after school programs, tutoring, youth services and emergency/refugee services – community social services that have been devolved, reduced or dismantled from government programs in recent years. In
light of this finding, the purpose of this paper is to look
closer at the interrelatedness of issues of public space,
citizenship, gender and race and larger structural processes
of deindustrialization, globalization and state restructuring. It documents the possible consequences of a dismantling of the welfare state and the devolution of responsibilities for social welfare to individuals and communities, enabled by both neoliberal and conservative forces. In particular, attention is given to the use of public policy to relocate responsibility for social welfare in the private sphere, locating care in the community (Staeheli 2003: 817). To examine these issues,
a feminist and critical perspective of public space, citizenship,
community and geographies of care, welfare and responsibility is taken (Lawson 2007; Staeheli & Brown 2003), albeit coloured by other critiques of public space and neoliberal reforms (Brenner & Theodore 2002; Leitner & Sheppard 2007).
The first section of the paper describes the research area with a short history of the economic conditions and the development of community gardens in the City of Buffalo and the methods used for this research project. The next section discusses the concepts of public space, citizenship, gender and geographies of care. This discussion is supported by three case studies of community gardens in Buffalo, NY that are engaged in the provision of an assortment of social and community services. The paper concludes with a summary of the kinds of care and support provided by the community gardening organizations and their importance for individual
community members. It situates the work of the community
within larger global processes and notes that the effects of larger structural processes, such as deindustrialization,
privatization, and state restructuring are clearly felt at the local everyday level of Buffalo’s residents. Their lives within the context of social, political and economic conditions are related to and cannot be separated from the larger global context.
method for using both qualitative and quantitative data through geographic information systems
(GIS) and ethnography. We acknowledge that the use of both types of data has been possible in GIS
for some time, particularly for representation purposes. However, a recursive integration of different
forms of data at the analysis level has been less explored and minimally theorized. Drawing on recent
work in critical GIS and feminist perspectives, we suggest that visualization offers a strong technique
for this effort but we approach it from the analytical base of grounded theory. Thus, we present an
example of how grounded theory and visualization might be used together to construct an integrated
analysis strategy that is both iterative and reflexive, both contextual and conceptual.We use Knigge's
work on community gardens in Buffalo, New York, to provide a substantive example of the proposed
methods.
research progressed, an important theme emerges: it became apparent that many community gardening organizations were also engaged in the provision of other types of social services and care well beyond those typically associated with community gardening, including after school programs, tutoring, youth services and emergency/refugee services – community social services that have been devolved, reduced or dismantled from government programs in recent years. In
light of this finding, the purpose of this paper is to look
closer at the interrelatedness of issues of public space,
citizenship, gender and race and larger structural processes
of deindustrialization, globalization and state restructuring. It documents the possible consequences of a dismantling of the welfare state and the devolution of responsibilities for social welfare to individuals and communities, enabled by both neoliberal and conservative forces. In particular, attention is given to the use of public policy to relocate responsibility for social welfare in the private sphere, locating care in the community (Staeheli 2003: 817). To examine these issues,
a feminist and critical perspective of public space, citizenship,
community and geographies of care, welfare and responsibility is taken (Lawson 2007; Staeheli & Brown 2003), albeit coloured by other critiques of public space and neoliberal reforms (Brenner & Theodore 2002; Leitner & Sheppard 2007).
The first section of the paper describes the research area with a short history of the economic conditions and the development of community gardens in the City of Buffalo and the methods used for this research project. The next section discusses the concepts of public space, citizenship, gender and geographies of care. This discussion is supported by three case studies of community gardens in Buffalo, NY that are engaged in the provision of an assortment of social and community services. The paper concludes with a summary of the kinds of care and support provided by the community gardening organizations and their importance for individual
community members. It situates the work of the community
within larger global processes and notes that the effects of larger structural processes, such as deindustrialization,
privatization, and state restructuring are clearly felt at the local everyday level of Buffalo’s residents. Their lives within the context of social, political and economic conditions are related to and cannot be separated from the larger global context.
method for using both qualitative and quantitative data through geographic information systems
(GIS) and ethnography. We acknowledge that the use of both types of data has been possible in GIS
for some time, particularly for representation purposes. However, a recursive integration of different
forms of data at the analysis level has been less explored and minimally theorized. Drawing on recent
work in critical GIS and feminist perspectives, we suggest that visualization offers a strong technique
for this effort but we approach it from the analytical base of grounded theory. Thus, we present an
example of how grounded theory and visualization might be used together to construct an integrated
analysis strategy that is both iterative and reflexive, both contextual and conceptual.We use Knigge's
work on community gardens in Buffalo, New York, to provide a substantive example of the proposed
methods.