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Growing Together? Community, Culture, And Gardening In Downtown Las Vegas, Tyler S. Schafer
Growing Together? Community, Culture, And Gardening In Downtown Las Vegas, Tyler S. Schafer
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In this manuscript I explore the issue of how groups appropriate broad cultural trends in local contexts. Using the case of a community garden in Las Vegas I examine how social space is imbued with meaning and how those meanings come to shape the subsequent interactions that take place in the meaningful place. This research draws from four years of participant observation at Vegas Roots Community Garden (VRCG), 20 in-depth interviews, hundreds of informal interviews, and content analysis of documents produced by others about the garden and by the garden organization about itself.
I expand on Howard Becker’s (1974) work …