Introduction
2015; Springer International Publishing; Linguagem: Inglês
10.1007/978-3-319-11614-3_1
ISSN2197-1749
AutoresLouiza M. Boukharaeva, Marcel Marloie,
ResumoIn the rediscovery of urban agriculture, the study of urban gardening in Russia offers an example of a widespread phenomenon that carries universal lessons. In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the need for individuals to maintain an ongoing relationship with nature was forgotten in countries transformed by the Industrial Revolution. Part of the urban population was relegated to apartments disconnected from nature. The disparity in the relationship between the city-dweller and nature has become a component of our modernity. Russia followed another path. A garden plot and small garden house complement the city apartment, giving people renewed access to integral human habitat. This contribution was not understood because of the interruption of scientific dialogue that had been established in the nineteenth century between Russia and Western countries. The Russian experience was seen as a legacy of the rural past or a specific phenomenon of the Soviet period. To understand this phenomenon and its universal character, research has referred to the current approach of sustainable human development. A dialogic perspective was embodied by implementing a method comparing the Russian experience with other regions of Europe. This approach allowed us to identify partnerships to sketch a new cross-sector and interdisciplinary dialogue, according to a scientific practice driven in the late nineteenth century by Vasily Dokuchaev, whose humanist dimension was theorised by sociologists and philosophers such as Mikhail Bakhtin and Edgar Morin.
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