Cultivating Care-full Practices and Policies: The Prefigurative Possibilities and Complexities of Urban Community Gardens

现有的关于社区花园的研究倾向于将社区花园定位为一种通过促进健康的社区共享食品、绿色城市环境和公共社区空间来解决健康、福祉和可持续发展的交叉需求的手段，这是英国的三个核心政策领域(Buck 2016；Cumbers等人)。2017年；Guerlain等人。2016年；MHCLG 2021年)。然而，该项目提出，社区花园是对当代社会政治和环境挑战的具体经验的回应，并包含在记录能够应对这些挑战的新的社区社会关系方面的潜力和问题。由于“身体是最基本的福利需求的核心”，该项目将充实植根于新自由主义社会条件、政治和政策的肉体体验如何产生和塑造社区花园--并研究如何通过社区花园实践和政策产生身体(Coffey 2004：83)。因此，它询问了日常形式的预产与更广泛的社会经济和环境结构之间的紧张关系，以阐明培育全面护理做法和政策的可能性和复杂性(Plender 2021；Ticktin 2011,2021)。这一问题与新冠肺炎、英国退欧和英国气候危机这三大挑战的背景相关，这场危机最终导致了粮食不安全以及健康和福祉不平等的扩大(Charles&Ewbank 2021；Green等人)。2021年)。

Existing research on community gardens tend to position them as a means of addressing the intersecting needs for health, wellbeing, and sustainability by fostering healthy communally shared foods, green urban environments, and public community spaces, which are three core UK policy areas (Buck 2016; Cumbers et al. 2017; Guerlain et al. 2016; MHCLG 2021). This project proposes, however, that community gardens are a response to embodied experiences of contemporary socio-political and environmental challenges and contain both potentialities and problematics in inscribing new communal social relations that can address such challenges. As "the body is at the heart of most fundamental welfare needs", this project will flesh out how corporeal experiences, rooted in neoliberal social conditions, politics, and policies, produce and shape community gardens - and examines how bodies are engendered through community garden practices and policies (Coffey 2004:83). As such, it asks about the tensions between everyday forms of prefiguration and wider socio-economic and environmental structures to illuminate the possibilities and complexities of cultivating care-full practices and policies (Plender 2021; Ticktin 2011, 2021). This line of questioning is pertinent within the context of the 'triple challenge' of COVID-19, Brexit, and the climate crisis in the UK, which has culminated in widening food insecurities and health and wellbeing inequalities (Charles & Ewbank 2021; Green et al. 2021).