Hoekstra, Femke (2024) Governing Environmental Challenges through Slow Nonviolence: Flower Bombs as Guerrilla G(u)ardening. Master thesis, Cultural Geography - Climate Adaptation Governance (CAG).
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Abstract
This research aims to address the human-centric bias in studies on guerrilla gardening and to explore “everyday” political strategies in relation to environmental challenges and climate adaptation. In particular, it investigates following a visual analysis of Instagram posts in the Netherlands, how between 2020 and 2024 guerrilla gardeners are politically expressing themselves through the seed bomb. The contents and intents of the images and texts were analysed from a critical and reflexive attitude, leading to findings that indicate guerrilla gardeners have forged alliances with the seed bomb to express themselves in a proactive manner against biodiversity loss and unsustainable, grey spaces. In this way, the practice resists and advocates for these challenges. Furthermore, the findings have shown, and I will argue that the biomaterial and plants are key to the political expression: it is central to forming the expression as the biomaterial grows itself and forms its ecological properties. Subsequently, it is vital for making sense of the politicalness of the action, considering the non-humans (the biomaterial and plants) offer a proposal. The greenery and flowers are improving the issues guerrilla gardeners want to address through the flower bomb: pollinator security and sustainable, positive environments. The thesis then offers a way forward in studies acknowledging the importance of human-plant relationships in cultural geography and politics, and alternative political spheres in relation to governing environmental challenges.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Master) |
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| Name supervisor: | Rosenbergova, S. |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Jul 2024 09:24 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jul 2024 09:24 |
| URI: | https://campus-fryslan.studenttheses.ub.rug.nl/id/eprint/501 |
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