Disallowal and Displacement: Community Gardens, gentrification and conspicuous labor with Fatmir Haskaj

Community gardens are fertile fields of complex political, economic and social relations, on both a local and global level. As both a real and imagined space community gardens are sites of intervention, reform, solidarity, resistance, resiliency and erasure. In “Disallowal and Displacement: Community Gardens, gentrification and conspicuous labor” Sociologist Fatmir Haskaj radically reinterprets the community garden revealing what he calls “conspicuous labor” and showing how free-labor is central to the continued marginalization and displacement of disadvantaged communities in cities.