Nagib, Gustavo [UNESP]2024-10-292024-10-292024-08-26NAGIB, Gustavo. Urban agriculture as activism: common practices and discourses in different contexts. In: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NATURE FOR AN INCLUSIVE AND INNOVATIVE URBAN REGENERATION, 2022, Milan. Proceedings […]. Dordrecht: Atlantis, 2024. p. 171-182. ISBN 978-94-6463-469-3. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-6463-469-3_14. Disponível em: https://www.atlantis-press.com/proceedings/natiurb-22/126002438.9789464634693https://hdl.handle.net/11449/257928The present paper addresses the relationship between urban agricul-ture, activism and the right to the city in three different contexts: São Paulo (Bra-zil), Paris (France), and Lausanne (Switzerland). Largely based on qualitative research performed between 2016 and 2022 in the three aforementioned cities, relying on a critical approach and field work (participant and non-participant ob-servation), the study has found a convergence between discourse and practice when it comes to intraurban horticulture, with emphasis on issues such as citi-zen’s (re)appropriation of public spaces, strengthening of social bonds, promo-tion of urban biodiversity, and a new political and cultural contribution to the city-nature relationship. Although each of those cities’ institutions respond to ur-ban horticulture in a different manner, with local governments playing a more or less active role in the everyday life of community gardens, such gardens become public space activity hubs of collective experience and prove to be, both materi-ally and symbolically, in all three contexts, a criticism to contemporary cities and an alternative to urban life.engUrban agricultureActivismPublic spaceArtigo10.2991/978-94-6463-469-3_14Acesso aberto