Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com EVERYTHING GARDENS EVERYTHING AND OTHER STORIES GARDENS GROWING AND OTHER STORIES TRANSITION CULTURE GROWING TRANSITION CULTURE LUIGI RUSSI LUIGI RUSSI www.Ebook777.com EVERYTHING GARDENS AND OTHER STORIES GROWING TRANSITION CULTURE LUIGI RUSSI Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com Paperback edition first published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by University of Plymouth Press, Endsleigh Place, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, United Kingdom ISBN 978-1-84102-380-9 © University of Plymouth Press 2015 © Luigi Russi 2015 The rights of this work have been asserted by Luigi Russi and R C Smith in accordance with the Crown Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library Publisher: Paul Honeywill Editor: Harriet McClure All rights reserved No part of Everything Gardens and other Stories may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means whether electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of UPP Any person who carries out any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages Typeset by University of Plymouth Press in Janson 10/14pt Printed and bound by Edwards Brothers Malloy MIX Paper from responsible sources www.fsc.org FSC® C014540 www.Ebook777.com PRAISE FOR Everything Gardens and other stories Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com EVERTHING GARDENS AND OTHER STORIES: GROWING TRANSITION CULTURE Russi almost achieves the impossible in providing a rich and polyvalent description of an idea on the wing Academics might recognise a kind of phenomenology in his approach, which is more akin to smelling and tasting, than weighing and measuring Everything Gardens explores from within, Transition as a process of incubation or the deliberative unfolding of an alternative to consumer capitalism – a pattern language for a more placegenerative, ecologically recursive form of local economy Poetic and optimistic, Russi’s book adds ‘participant permaculture’ to the social science playbook This is a new methodology that I am sure will become part of the repertoire Stephen Quilley, Associate Professor of Environmental and Social Innovation, University of Waterloo, Canada What is Transition? That is the question that is at the core of this book How we go about Transition? How is Transition defined? At what point is Transition perceived as complete? The difficulty of these questions is so wonderfully managed in Everything Gardens, wherein we learn that, in a way that is perhaps similar to Theodor W Adorno’s (or Herbert Marcuse’s) notion of non-identity, Transition is best understood only insofar as it is not reduced to an instrumental process that can be absolutely captured in some total concept or theory […] If ever there was a book that was so penetrative and that raises so many fascinating questions about the phenomenon of Transition, it is Everything Gardens As a study of the utmost integrity, one can only hail this work by Russi as a significant and important achievement in the field of social science From the preface by R.C Smith, Director, Heathwood Institute and Press www.Ebook777.com PRAISE FOR EVERYTHING GARDENS AND OTHER STORIES Will the Transition movement succeed in bringing about a transition towards a more sustainable, equitable and more resilient world? Luigi Russi doesn’t answer this question in this very important and readable new book, precisely because it is impossible to provide an answer Rather than defining Transition and evaluating its chances of success, he delves right into the culture of Transition, providing us with rich stories of its daily ‘doings’ and ‘workings’ on the ground – in Totnes and elsewhere He urges us to try to understand Transition not as something that can be dissected and critiqued from the distance but as an ongoing process that is full of contestations, surprises, changes and crises Transition, he argues, is a true movement; it is everywhere but not necessarily nowhere It is in the details of the social and material world, and what he has precisely done is give us snippets and glimpses of that Transition world Everything Gardens is enlightening because it takes Transition seriously as a social, cultural and economic phenomenon that will change, potentially, all of our lives Steffen Böhm, Professor in Management and Sustainability, University of Essex and editor of Ecocultures: Blueprints for Sustainable Communities Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com EVERTHING GARDENS AND OTHER STORIES: GROWING TRANSITION CULTURE Summary Preface by R.C Smith i Acknowledgments xi Introduction: Travelling Without Moving My moving in Totnes Transition, Totnes and comparison Transition: A Publishing History Beginnings and instruction manuals Recipe books and collections of short stories How this book differs from previous work An invitation to the phenomenology of Transition 24 32 38 42 44 51 59 66 Part I: The Moving of Transition ‘Everything Gardens’, Gardens Everywhere Gardening in Transition Food and the experience of ‘community’ Critical food cultures Inner Transition What does Inner Transition do? ‘Inner work’: implicit and explicit Conclusion Transition Money LETS and local currencies Alternative currencies and Transition The Totnes Pound www.Ebook777.com 82 90 94 99 108 113 117 128 132 134 138 142 LUIGI RUSSI REconomy Deeper into the REconomy project And back into Transition The Local Entrepreneur Forum REconomy-type projects 154 157 161 165 171 Part II: The Unfolding of a Form of Life Exemplars and Experimentation Exemplars and relating differences Exemplars and circulation Exemplars as incubation Exemplars as skilled performances Conclusion Insiders/Outsiders The changing face of Inner Transition The ‘No to Costa’ campaign Transition and inclusivity The Politics of Unfolding Experience Peak oil as shared sensory topic Transition as a search for orientation Transition as ‘imaginative universal’ and living tradition Harmonising drift and novelty inside Transition The politics of everyday experience in Transition Conclusion 10 Conclusion A glimpse of Transition practices The moving of Transition Growing Transition culture 180 182 189 193 195 200 204 206 213 220 228 230 236 238 243 247 254 258 260 265 270 Notes 274 Bibliography 332 Select index 350 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com EVERTHING GARDENS AND OTHER STORIES: GROWING TRANSITION CULTURE www.Ebook777.com For Putli BIBLIOGRAPHY and New York: Routledge, 2005 Ingold, Tim The Perception of the Environment: Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill London: Routledge, 2000 Jamiroquai Travelling Without Moving UK: Sony Soho Square, 1996 Juris, Jeffrey S Networking Futures: The Movements against Corporate Globalization Durham: Duke University Press, 2008 Kennedy, Margrit, Bernard Lietaer, and John Rogers People Money: The Promise of Regional Currencies Axminster: Triarchy Press, 2012 Kidd, Emma “Knickers to That!” In Stories of the Great Turning, edited by Peter Reason and Melanie Newman, 47–56 Bristol: Vala Publishing Co-operative, 2014 Kingsnorth, Paul, and Dougald Hine Uncivilisation: The Dark Mountain Manifesto UK: The Dark Mountain Project, 2009 Klein, Naomi, and Yotam Marom “Why Now? 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and participant observation, 37, 278 n.27 action-guiding anticipations, 191, 198, 241, 248, 254, 318 n.32 alternative currencies: and LETS, see LETS; voucher system, 135 Atmos project, 173, 190 attachment: material, 302 n.19; notion, 279 n.34 Bristol Pound: 146, 308 n.36; notes, 309 n.37 community: gardens 90 ff.; indeterminate notion, 76, 252-3; nonrepresentational, 98 community-supported agriculture (CSA), 100 culture: notion, 41, 279 n.34 Dark Mountain Project, The: 299 n.6 dialogically-structured activity: and meaning, 267, 324 n.7; spontaneous responsiveness, 57, 230, 236, 252, 254, 270, 276 n.7, 312 n.30, 318 n.32 Dig for Victory, 237 elders, listening to, 198 ‘End of Suburbia’ moment, 232 entanglement, 250, 279 n.34 ethics: and attachments, 155, 185; and lived experience, 296 n.37 exemplars: circulation, 189 ff.; notion, 31; and stories, 190-1, 316 n.19 Food Hub, 102 ff Gestalt: 68, 157, 172; notion, 56, see also organising idea 350 www.Ebook777.com LUIGI RUSSI Goethe, J W.: instance worth a thousand, 315 n.13; colour (theory of), 67-8; imaginative free variation, 70; plant (origin), 68; relatedness-in-difference, 29 Great Turning, The: notion, 57, 302 n.24; Stories of, 56-7 Hopkins, Rob: early works, 44 ff.; PhD dissertation, 49, 282 n.24; recipe book, 51-2 figurations, 219, 250 fittingness, 284 n.40, 302 n.19 imaginative universal, 240 inclusivity, 220 ff., 242-3, 318 n.32 Inner Transition: ‘Inner Transition-type’, 111, 113, 117, 121, 172, 209, 244; meeting techniques, 124; sharing group, 209; workshops, 210, 212 LETS: and alternative currency, 136; notion, 134 life-word: see phenomenology living tradition, 240-1, 268-9 Local Entrepreneur Forum: Dragons’ Den, 165, 197 Local Exchange Trading Systems, see LETS Macy, Joanna, 57, 118, 120, 300 n.10, 302 n.24 Max-Neef, Manfred: needs and satisfiers, 155, 212, 310 n.3; and REconomy, 310 n.4 money: interest, 195; social view of, 304 n.4 organisational moments, 219, 230, 312 n.30 organised setting, 66, 75, 204, 240, 249, 254, 268 organising idea, 157, 175 orientational dilemmas, 60, 198, 260, 287 n.57 peak oil: notion, 45, 276 n 5; survivalism, 88 performance: and audiences, 198, 219; coherence, 188; rupturing, 188, 214 permaculture: Association, 84; notion, 46, 83 ff.; and Transition, 86 ff phenomenology: bracketing, 69; essences, 69; life-world, 70 phenomenon: appearance, 70, 152, 269; intra-action, 259 351 Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com EVERTHING GARDENS AND OTHER STORIES: GROWING TRANSITION CULTURE phronesis, 237-8 politics: dilemmatic nature of, vii, 229, 252; of everyday experience, 229, 249, 287 n.57; prefiguration, ii, iii Post-Peak Oil Stress Syndrome: and bereavement, 235; symptoms, 232-3 potlucks, 96 Power of Just Doing Stuff, The: 54 ff., 157, 253; and The Transition Handbook, 265-6 progressive spiritualities, 33, 299 n.5 REconomy: and gift, 246; internal investment, 160; local economic multiplier, 161; ‘REconomy-type things’, 171 ff., 192; and volunteering, 154, 187 relatedness-in-difference, see Goethe resonance, 189 School Farm, 100 ff Schumacher College, 33 ff secularism, 114-5, 299 n.7 Sen, Amartya: justice, 226, 251-2 shared sensory topic, 230 Skillshares: 95; and REconomy, 174 space: furnished, 98, 127 style, 221, 268-9 Totnes: as counter-cultural place, 33, 217; Dartington Estate, 33; Energy Descent Action Plan, 48 ff.; Network of Wellbeing, 96, 211; No to Costa campaign, 213 ff., 245 Totnes Pound, 142 ff.; and Inner Transition, 125 Transition: Companion, 51 ff.; and Deleuze, 72-3; Enterprise, 158-9; Handbook, 45 ff.; Heart and Soul, see Inner Transition; Homes, 182 ff.; Renewable Energy Society, 182; Tales, 55 ff.; and The Great Turning, 57; Streets, 126, 129, 236 ways of seeing: and phenomenology, 71-2; quantitative, 60, 62-3 Well & Good Project, The, 212 whole: and parts, 83, 175, 284 n 40, 291 n.97 Work that Reconnects, The, 117 ff., 303 n.29, 319 n.8 352 www.Ebook777.com EVERYTHING GARDENS AND OTHER STORIES EVERYTHING GARDENS GROWING TRANSITION CULTURE Russi almost achieves the impossible in providing a rich and polyvalent description of an idea on the wing AND OTHER STORIES Prof Stephen Quilley, University of Waterloo The Transition movement is more than an instrumental strategy to address climate change and fossil fuel shortage It is a collective form of life Against the tendency to reduce social movements to mission statements and policy solutions, this book insists on de-strategising the development of Transition It argues that the flourishing of its distinctive culture is open to both uncertainty and paradox, and resistant to prediction and mapping Everything Gardens and Other Stories focuses instead on the body as the site where politics begins, engaging with the disquiets and anxieties that instigate the development of Transition practices: from Inner Transition, to food and currency activism, down to the REconomy project Borne out of a sociologist’s accompaniment of Transition in Totnes, Everything Gardens and Other Stories inaugurates a new mode of accessing the everyday politics and ethical dilemmas that surface in the process of cultural innovation GROWING TRANSITION CULTURE ‘Everything Gardens’ is enlightening LUIGI because RUSSI it takes Transition seriously as a social, cultural and economic phenomenon Prof Steffen Böhm, University of Essex Luigi Russi is a Ph.D student in Sociology at the University of Exeter He is the author of Hungry Capital: The Financialization of Food (2013) www.uppress.co.uk ... www.Ebook777.com EVERTHING GARDENS AND OTHER STORIES: GROWING TRANSITION CULTURE www.Ebook777.com For Putli Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com EVERTHING GARDENS AND OTHER STORIES: GROWING TRANSITION CULTURE... Everything Gardens and other stories Free ebooks ==> www.Ebook777.com EVERTHING GARDENS AND OTHER STORIES: GROWING TRANSITION CULTURE Russi almost achieves the impossible in providing a rich and polyvalent... www.Ebook777.com EVERTHING GARDENS AND OTHER STORIES: GROWING TRANSITION CULTURE So how we understand this and how we describe the revolutionary or emancipatory value of Transition, if it is so