Spaces of quiet sustainability: self-provisioning and sharing is a three-year research project (2019-2021) aiming at the understanding of food self-provisioning and the sharing of food and other things. The research is focused on sharing networks around household production and participants’ values and motivations, spatiality of these networks and material flows, on economic and environmental effects of these processes and trends in self-provisioning.

The project is funded by the Czech Science Foundation’s grant No. 19-10694S and is based at the Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno and Faculty of Economics, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice.

The research team are Petr Daněk (principal investigator, Masaryk University), Jan Vávra (co-investigator, University of South Bohemia) and team members Alena Rýparová a Lucie Sovová (both Masaryk University), Petr Jehlička (Czech Academy of Sciences/Masaryk University), Miloslav Lapka and Roman Buchtele (both University of South Bohemia).

Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Food GardensGrowing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Food Gardens

May 26, 2021|

Lucie Sovová, Petr Jehlička, Petr Daněk (2021). Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Food Gardens. Sustainability

Quietly degrowing: Food self-provisioning in Central EuropeQuietly degrowing: Food self-provisioning in Central Europe

March 2, 2021|

A book chapter by Petr Daněk and Petr Jehlička in edited book Food for Degrowth: Perspectives and Practices.

Why I Would Want to Live in the Village If I Was Not Interested in Cultivating the Plot? A Study of Home Gardening in Rural CzechiaWhy I Would Want to Live in the Village If I Was Not Interested in Cultivating the Plot? A Study of Home Gardening in Rural Czechia

March 2, 2021|

Paper focused on rural home gardening by Jan Vávra, Zdeňka Smutná and Vladan Hruška published in Sustainability.

Sítě pravého sdílení a sociální kapitál (True Sharing Networks and Social Capital)Sítě pravého sdílení a sociální kapitál (True Sharing Networks and Social Capital)

March 2, 2021|

Paper on sharing and social capital by Alena Rýparová in journal Sociální studia (in Czech language).

Eastern Europe and the geography of knowledge production: The case of the invisible gardenerEastern Europe and the geography of knowledge production: The case of the invisible gardener

March 2, 2021|

A new paper by Petr Jehlička in Progress in Human Geography

Reimagining Informal Food Practices: Sustainability Lessons from the European EastReimagining Informal Food Practices: Sustainability Lessons from the European East

March 2, 2021|

Presentation "Reimagining Informal Food Practices: Sustainability Lessons from the European East" at online symposium "Transitioning Cultures of Everyday Food Consumption