24 June 2014 18.00 – 20.00: Evening Lecture (Room: PEG 1G. 161)
Prof. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (University of Southern California) “Immigrant Homeland Re-creation and Healing in Urban Community Gardens of Los Angeles”
Summer School, 23-27 June 2014, Location: Frankfurt am Main
Multiple Inequalities in the Age of Transnationalization:
Implications for Concepts and Methods
Goethe University Frankfurt, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Sociology
Organizers: Anna Amelina, Helma Lutz, Kira Kosnick
24 June 2014 18.00 – 20.00: Evening Lecture (Room: PEG 1G. 161)
Prof. Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (University of Southern California)
“Immigrant Homeland Re-creation and Healing in Urban Community Gardens of Los Angeles”
This lecture focuses on a range of home-making and healing practices that occur in these urban community gardens. In the context of crowded, substandard apartments in a hyper-urbanized locale and the closed circuits of cross-border return migration, the urban community gardens serve as shared domestic space. Mexican and Central American immigrants and their families gather at these gardens to grow familiar foods that nourish them, such as maize, calabaza, chayote, chipilin, papalo, etc. In the process, they connect their children, some of whom are U.S.-born, with ancestral traditions, attaching them to homeland culture, and to an experience with la tierra (the earth).
