Local initiatives and social practices relating to urban greenspace and sustainable cities or in the urban/rural fringe

Key words

• Focus on discourse and materiality: text talk and things and their performativity
• Participation, activism and Learning
• Conflict and Change
• Discourse and Democracy
• Empowerment and Displacement.

Approach

• Qualitative, social constructionist, interpretive
• Predominantly Ethnographic work, Action Research
• Discourse studies
• Desk research consists of exploration of previous studies and secondary literature

Interesting

• Taking a South/North perspective, e.g. by comparing cases from different corners of the globe. What can they learn from one another?
• Story mapping and film interesting methods.