Material and social relations in a coastal community garden assemblage
Material and social relations in a coastal community garden assemblage
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沿海社区花园组合中的物质和社会关系
DOI：
10.1080/14649365.2019.1658800
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发表时间：
2019
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
V. Marshall
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作者：
L. Campbell;E. Svendsen;Renae Reynolds;V. Marshall
摘要：本文利用行动者网络理论（ANT）来探讨飓风桑迪过后，纽约洛克威市公共住宅场地的沿海社区花园场地的物质和社会动态。通过一个参与式设计研究项目，我们研究了人类和非人类之间不断变化的联系，作为一种询问机构、权力动态和治理的方式。承认我们自己的局外人地位，我们利用“接触区域”的框架来思考权力差异条件下的遭遇。在描述我们与海滩41街社区花园的接触时，我们确定了三个具有不同治理安排的组合-潮汐海岸，花园地块和树木草坪。这些组合物通过物质流动联网，包括淡水、土壤、植物和木材等非人类活动物。不守规矩的演员和演员——人、盐水、毒葛、狗和垃圾——会引发争议并抵制治理。我们反思了设计、研究和社区组织作为干预措施的作用，这些干预措施可以引起组合的重新排列，为动态场地的权力动态和潜在的变化提供新的视角。在这样做的过程中，我们调动了接触区和ANT，以便更好地理解和在人类和非人类之间不断变化的联系中采取行动。
ABSTRACT This paper draws upon Actor Network Theory (ANT) to explore material and social dynamics of a coastal community garden site on public housing grounds in Rockaway, NY after Hurricane Sandy. Through a participatory design-research project, we examine shifting associations between humans and non-humans as a way of interrogating agency, power dynamics, and governance. Acknowledging our own outsider status, we draw upon the frame of ‘contact zones’ for thinking through encounters in conditions of power differentials. In describing our encounter with the Beach 41st Street Community Garden as a contact zone, we identify three assemblages with different governance arrangements – tidal shore, garden plots, and treed lawn. These assemblages are networked through material flows and include nonhuman actants such as freshwater, soil, plants, and wood. Unruly actors and actants – people, saltwater, poison ivy, dogs, and trash – can spark controversy and resist governing. We reflect upon the role of design, research, and community organizing as interventions that can cause rearrangements of the assemblages, shedding new light on power dynamics and potential apertures for change in a dynamic site. In so doing, we mobilize contact zones and ANT to better understand and act within shifting associations between humans and non-humans.