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This analysis concerns an action research, which is generated from the daily activist routine of urban gardening and emancipatory education. Its goal is to work hand in hand with the Allmende-Kontor and the orangotango collective, and in doing so to develop an academic exchange of ideas concerning transformative forms of scientific practice. The work is centered on the activists' action-based interplay and the hereby connected learning processes. The foundation for the engagement with action research and emancipatory education is formed by Paulo Freire's popular education. On this basis the work deals with the spectrum of action research and characterizes it with the help of its central elements. The debate on urban gardens is rooted in the discussions revolving around political ecology. This is followed by the development of a critical and solidary approach towards the different levels of urban agriculture, which sheds light on the contradictory potential of urban gardens for a solidary, ecological and emancipatory transformation. In the style of action research this is then reacted to and followed by cycles of action and reflection. The engagement with collective mappings as a method of action research stems from critical cartography and the practices of resistance in Latin America. It is embedded in the activistic and reflexive practice in the environment of urban gardens. On the one hand this work includes a practical level of concrete activities and results. On the other hand, it analyzes (learning) processes which are connected to the formation and the dissemination of these activities and results. This analysis is in turn divided into an engagement with the political aspects and goals of activist practices on the one hand, as well as a methodological reflection of action research on the other hand. Within the analysis both of these sides are fused into a simultaneously occurring activist research and a scholar activism. ; Bei dieser Untersuchung handelt es sich um eine Aktionsforschung, die aus dem ...

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Editorial-This Is Not an Atlas -- Counter-Cartographies-The Insurrection of Maps -- Counter-Cartographies as a Tool for Action -- Mapping the Anti-Eviction Struggle in the San Francisco Bay Area -- A New Social Cartography -- A View from Above-Balloon Mapping Bourj Al Shamali -- Mapping Safe Passages -- Militarization of Rio de Janeiro's Favelas-Measuring Impacts on the Lives of Young Black Men and Women through Social Cartography -- Political Action Maps -- This Land Is Your Land -- Counter-Cartographies Tie Networks -- X-Ray of Soy Agribusiness in the Pampa and Mega-Mining in the Andes -- Mapping Global Environmental Conflicts and Spaces of Resistance -- Collaborative Cartography in Defense of the Commons -- Knitted Flood Wall -- Counter-Cartographies Build Political Pressure -- Indigenous Cartography in Acre-Influencing Public Policy in Brazil -- Making Cartographies of Ourselves -- A Civic Mapping Project in an Indian Megacity The Uses and Challenges of Spatial Data for Critical Research -- Mapping Sexual Harassment in Egypt -- Untangling the Strategies of Capital-Towards a Critical Atlas of Ecuador -- A Students' Map for a Students' Building Working from within and beyond the Map -- Counter-Cartography Is Education -- Counter-Mapping for Resistance and Solidarity in the Philippines Between Art, Pedagogy and Community -- Mapping Inside (and Outside) the Classroom -- Protest Map, Cartoon and Propaganda -- How to Become an Occasional Cartographer -- Making Maps-A Visual Guide to Map Design with GPS -- Manual of Collective Mapping -- A Guideline for Solidary Mapping -- Counter-Cartographies Create Visibility -- Counter-Mapping Militant Research -- Mapping the Squatting Movement -- Emancipatory Mapmaking-Lessons from Kibera -- Mapping Postkolonial An Archive of Post/Colonial Traces, Layers and Spectres in Munich -- Open-Source Aerial Imagery as a Critique Tool The Extractive Geopolitics Project -- You Must Buy before You Can Fly-The Airport Malls -- Counter-Cartographies Show Spatial Subjectivity -- Visualizing the Counter-Narratives of Port Said -- Counter-Cartographies of Exile -- The Materiality Language of Cartography -- Imaging Homelessness in a City of Care. Participatory Mapping with Homeless People -- Tyneside's Skateworlds and Their Transformation- Production and Consumption of Participatory Post-Representational Cartographies -- Far Rock-AnneMarie's Mental Map of New York -- Counter-Cartographies as Self-Reflection -- Information Overload-From the Map to the Ground and Back -- C/Artographies of Positionality-Or How We Try to Situate Ourselves as a Working Group in Academia -- Deep Maps -- Counter-Cartographies as Critique -- Uneven Digital Geographies ... and Why They Matter -- From Data Commons to (Critical) Cartography-Linking Data Sources for a Gender Street Map -- Towards unMaking maps-A Guide to Experiments in Paracartography -- This Is Not a Conclusion -- Discussing Counter-Cartographies -- Glossary

This Is Not an Atlas gathers more than 40 counter-cartographies from all over the world. This collection shows how maps are created and transformed as a part of political struggle, for critical research or in art and education: from indigenous territories in the Amazon to the anti-eviction movement in San Francisco; from defending commons in Mexico to mapping refugee camps with balloons in Lebanon; from slums in Nairobi to squats in Berlin; from supporting communities in the Philippines to reporting sexual harassment in Cairo. This Is Not an Atlas seeks to inspire, to document the underrepresented, and to be a useful companion when becoming a counter-cartographer yourself.

Klappentext: Depicting the world, territory, and geopolitical realities involves a high degree of interpretation and imagination. It is never neutral. Cartography originated in ancient times to represent the world and to enable circulation, communication, and economic exchange. Today, IT companies are a driving force in this field and change our view of the world; how we communicate, navigate, and consume globally. Questions of privacy, authorship, and economic interests are highly relevant to cartography's practices. So how to deal with such powers and what is the critical role of cartography in it? How might a bottom-up perspective (and actions) in map-making change conception of a geopolitical space?

Urban gardens are spreading in many cities across Europe, with community gardening being a fundamental form of urban agriculture. While the literature reveals the essential role that community gardens can play in terms of learning and education, no studies have investigated the training needs for participants in community gardens to ensure their successful development. The goal of this article is to evaluate the training requirements of urban community gardens to ensure their successful implementation and their contribution to sustainability in European cities. Two questionnaires of users' needs analysis were designed and implemented in Berlin, Bologna, Budapest, and Cartagena. The results unveiled the need to re-enforce the training in the formation and community building phases of community gardens towards ensuring the creation of an engaged gardening community to maintain activity, particularly for top-down activities (e.g., research-related gardens). Users claimed their need for being trained on crop management skills (e.g., maintenance, bed preparation, organic practices) and on communication skills to further disseminate their activity, thereby increasing the potential for citizen engagement. Such requirements could be overcome with the creation of urban gardens networks, where experiences and knowledge are shared among practitioners. Policy recommendations are provided based on the outputs of this study. ; This research was funded by the European Union's Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP), sub-programme Grundtvig for adults learning: 526476-LLP-1-2012-1-IT-GRUNDTVIGGM, 2012-2014. This research has received funding from the European Union's Lifelong Learning Programme (LLP), sub-programme Grundtvig for adults learning: 526476-LLP-1-2012-1-IT-GRUNDTVIGGM, 2012–2014.

Urbane Gemeinschaftsgärten sind aus der Stadt nicht mehr wegzudenken. Aus vereinzelten Pionierprojekten entstand im Laufe der vergangenen zwei Jahrzehnte ein Netzwerk von rund 1000 Initiativen. Als erdverbundene Orte haben sie das Potenzial, Stadt wie Gesellschaft grundlegend zu verändern. Doch was ist das Besondere an urbanen Gärten und warum sind sie unverzichtbar? Gemeinsam mit Autor*innen aus Wissenschaft, Forschung und Aktivismus beleuchten wir die unterschiedlichen Dimensionen der neuen urbanen Gartenbewegung - und loten ihre Rolle bei der Mitgestaltung einer menschen- und naturgerechten Stadt der Zukunft aus