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A COMMITMENT TO OUR SHARED DESTINY:
TRANSFORMATIONAL GARDENS AND A VISION OF EQUITY
by
Allison Danielle Behrstock
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE USC ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF PUBLIC ART STUDIES
May 2012
Copyright 2012 Allison Danielle Behrstock
Object Description
| Title | A commitment to our shared destiny: transformational gardens and a vision of equity |
| Author | Behrstock, Allison Danielle |
| Author email | adbehrstock@gmail.com;adbehrstock@gmail.com |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Public Art Studies |
| School | School of Fine Arts |
| Date defended/completed | 2012-04-08 |
| Date submitted | 2012-05-08 |
| Date approved | 2012-05-09 |
| Restricted until | 2012-05-09 |
| Date published | 2012-05-09 |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Driggs, Janet Owen Wedell, Noura Hofmann, Irene |
| Abstract | A growing need to address sustainable agriculture and food security has influenced cultural producers to embrace gardening as social practice. Gardening spaces are engaged environments that foster new ways of relating; they are places in which biodiversity and cultural diversity are experienced as interdependent; and they nurture embodied knowledge in ways that breaks down a centuries old binary between nature and culture. Proposing that such sites be called “transformational gardens,” this text addresses three of them: The South Central Farm/s, Bonnie Ora Sherk’s Crossroads Community (The Farm), and Marjetica Potrc’s La Semeuse. As we expand our ideas of cultural production, these projects fit into an emerging global discourse that invests in social and ecological justice to dispel oppressive hierarchies, reframing our definitions of art. |
| Keyword | sustainability; urban gardening; Marjetica Potrc; food deserts; South Central Farms; Barefoot College; biodiversity; cultural diversity; socially engaged art; climate change; immigration |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Behrstock, Allison Danielle |
| Access conditions | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA |
| Repository email | cisadmin@usc.edu |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-BehrstockA-822.pdf |
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| Title | Page 1 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Full text | A COMMITMENT TO OUR SHARED DESTINY: TRANSFORMATIONAL GARDENS AND A VISION OF EQUITY by Allison Danielle Behrstock A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE USC ROSKI SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF PUBLIC ART STUDIES May 2012 Copyright 2012 Allison Danielle Behrstock |
