For papers, lectures and media appearance in Czech language see Czech version of Publications and media.
In 2019 and 2020 project team members along with several Czech and Slovak colleagues publish in the Czech Union of Allotment and Leisure Gardeners’ magazine Zahrádkář (Gardener) a series of articles under the heading ‘Gardening and society’. The series aims to communicate findings of academic research on gardening to its practitioners. With the magazine’s permission PDFs of individual articles are available here (in Czech).
Quietly degrowing: food self provisioning in Central Europe
Paper “Quietly degrowing: food self-provisioning in Central Europe” at the Building Alternative Livelihoods in times of ecological and political crisis conference.
East European Food Gardens as Spaces of Care
Paper “East European Food Gardens as Spaces of Care” at the special session “Towards the Hopeful Anthropocene: Sustainability Experimenting from the Margins” at EUGEO 2021 conference
Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Food Gardens
Lucie Sovová, Petr Jehlička, Petr Daněk (2021). Growing the Beautiful Anthropocene: Ethics of Care in East European Food Gardens. Sustainability 13 (9): 5193. onlinePaper in special issue Geographies of Responsibility…
Quietly degrowing: Food self-provisioning in Central Europe
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 Czechia
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)
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 gardener
A new paper by Petr Jehlička in Progress in Human Geography
Reimagining Informal Food Practices: Sustainability Lessons from the European East
Presentation “Reimagining Informal Food Practices: Sustainability Lessons from the European East” at online symposium “Transitioning Cultures of Everyday Food Consumption and Production: Stories from a Post-growth Future”
Garden and kitchen biowaste management in households
Jan Vávra: “Garden and kitchen biowaste management in households”. Online presentation at POWER4BIO project cross-visit in Czechia organised by University of South Bohemia on 1 December 2020. Presentation
Food self-provisioning in 21st century: overview of 15 years of research in Czechia
Conference presentation “Food self-provisioning in 21st century: overview of 15 years of research in Czechia” by Jan Vávra.
Informal food production and sharing webinars
The Spaces of Quiet Sustainability Collective prepares a series of three webinars on informal food production and sharing.
Neither Poor nor Cool: Practising Food Self-Provisioning in Allotment Gardens in the Netherlands and Czechia
Sovová, L. & Veen, E. (2020). Neither Poor nor Cool: Practising Food Self-Provisioning in Allotment Gardens in the Netherlands and Czechia. Sustainability, 12(12), 5134. Open Access AbstractWhile urban gardening and…
Urban gardeners as localised prosumers within circular economy: Case studies of home, allotment and community gardening
Jan Vávra, Miloslav Lapka, Lucie Sovová, Petr Daněk, Petr Jehlička, Jan Macháč, Lenka DubováPaper presented at virtual Dresden Nexus Conference, held 3-5 June 2020 in Dresden, Germany. Presentation .
Sketches of food, agriculture, gardening and sustainability in the times of Covid-19
Jan Vávra Essay in the Times of Covid-19 series publishing “flash reflections” on temporal and rhythmic shifts in various social terrains in pandemic times. (22 April 2020). open access
Thinking food like an East European: A critical reflection on the framing of food systems
Petr Jehlička, Miķelis Grīviņš, Oane Visser, Bálint Balázs Journal of Rural Studies. (in press). Open access until 9 July, otherwise standard access via ScienceDirect. Recently published provocative but also reflexive…
The role of edible cities supporting sustainability transformation – A conceptual multi-dimensional framework tested on a case study in Germany
Martina Artmann, Katharina Sartison, Jan Vávra Journal of Cleaner Production 255: 120220. link
Post-socialist smallholders: silence, resistance and alternatives
Oane Visser, Stefan Dorondel, Petr Jehlička, Max Spoor Canadian Journal of Development Studies 40(4): 499-510. Editorial of Special Section “Post-socialist smallholders: silence, resistance and alternatives” open access
Degrowth lessons from the European East: self-provisioning, sharing and the resilient food system
Petr Jehlička Talk at the Green Academy Winter Seminar “Degrowth Kaleidoscope – Real-Existing Utopias in Action” organised by the Zagreb’s Institute for Polical Ecology at Plitvice Lakes, Croatia (8–10 November…
Ethnography of sharing initiatives in Brno
Alena Rýparová Paper at the Ethnographies of Collaborative Economi(es) conference (25 October 2019, University of Edinburgh, UK). Paper in conference proceedings . Conference presentation .
Beyond the coping strategy: Central European informal food economies as future-oriented and transformation-enabling practices
Petr Daněk and Petr Jehlička Presentation at the international workshop From Economic to Political Informality: Exploring the Link between Shadow Practices, Policy Making and Development (17–19 September 2019, University of…