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Janet
Leisure Sciences
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Issue: Volume 26, Number 2 / April-June 2004
Pages: 143 - 162
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Social Capital in the Lived Experiences of Community Gardeners
Troy D. Glover A1
A1 Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Abstract:
In this narrative inquiry, I explored a community garden as a social context in which social capital was produced, accessed, and used by a social network of community gardeners. In particular, I focused on the distribution of social capital among members of the garden group. My findings suggest social capital can be both a benefit and cost, depending upon the position a social actor occupies within a functioning social network. Based upon this finding, I encourage leisure researchers to critically analyze social capital and study its potential for inequitable or even corrupt application, as opposed to focusing exclusively on its collective value.
Keywords:
social capital, community garden, narrative inquiry, grassroots organizing, inequality, race
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