{"id":993,"date":"2026-05-09T20:35:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/?p=993"},"modified":"2026-05-09T20:38:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T18:38:51","slug":"cultivating-together-unearthing-the-transformative-potential-of-community-gardening-as-prefigurative-collective-action-in-ljubljana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/?p=993","title":{"rendered":"Cultivating together: unearthing the transformative potential of community gardening as prefigurative collective action in Ljubljana"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With Laura Mittermaier<br><strong>Local Environment<\/strong><br>Taylor and Francis | Oxfordshire | 2026 | ISSN 1354-9839 | 1469-6711<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Community gardening as a form of collective action has the potential to drive transformative social change. Despite this, few studies offer empirical insights into how community gardening affects transformative social change in practice. This study aims to address this gap by examining the Onkraj gradbi\u0161\u010da community garden in Ljubljana. Employing fieldwork with participant observation, exploratory and in-depth interviews, and a review of secondary sources as research methods, the study explores how community gardening enables and sustains transformative social change and how institutional support (or lack thereof) impacts community gardening as a transformative community strategy. The findings reveal that Onkraj gradbi\u0161\u010da fostered key conditions of transformative social change, including inner transformation, collective leadership, community capacity building, and some scaling strategies. In contrast, scaling up strategies were ineffective and the absence of institutional support limited the impact of community gardening on enabling governance. These findings suggest that the transformative potential of Onkraj gradbi\u0161\u010da to contribute to path-shifting urban sustainability transitions was limited. Nevertheless, as a form of prefigurative collective action, Onkraj gradbi\u0161\u010da provided a tangible alternative for food production, community capacity building, land use management, and urban planning in the city. The study argues that performing a \u201cvision of a better world\u201d may be the main legacy of Onkraj gradbi\u0161\u010da, highlighting the transformative potential of community gardening in Ljubljana.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13549839.2026.2669757\">doi.org\/10.1080\/13549839.2026.2669757<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With Laura MittermaierLocal EnvironmentTaylor and Francis | Oxfordshire | 2026 | ISSN 1354-9839 | 1469-6711 Community gardening as a form of collective action has the potential to drive transformative social change. Despite this, few studies offer empirical insights into how &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/?p=993\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[112,41,111,13,113,51],"class_list":["post-993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-collective-action","tag-community","tag-community-gardening","tag-ljubljana","tag-transformative-social-change","tag-urban-gardening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=993"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":995,"href":"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/993\/revisions\/995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jagoche.splet.arnes.si\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}