Ellen van Holstein

Strategies of self-organising communities in a gentrifying city

Ellen van Holstein

Journal article  |  2020  |  Urban Studies

While commonly pitched as potential spaces for the empowerment of marginalised minority groups, self-organised projects such as co..

Feasibility and the care-full just city: Overlaps and contrasts in the views of people with disability and local government officers on social inclusion

Jerome N Rachele, Ilan Wiesel, Ellen van Holstein, Vickie Feretopoulos, Tessa de Vries, Celia Green, Ellen Bicknell

Journal article  |  2020  |  Cities

In this paper we consider how ‘feasibility’ considerations in urban policymaking fit within wider theories of the care-full just c..

The relational emergence of community and technology through the politics of water use

Ellen van Holstein

Journal article  |  2020  |  Social & Cultural Geography

Increasing water scarcity intensifies research interest in water-saving practices afforded by different water technologies. In com..

Practising lively geographies in the city: encountering Melbourne through experimental field-based workshops

Michele Lobo, Michele Duffy, Andrea Witcomb, Chris Brennan-Horley, David Leo Kelly, Kaya Barry, David Bissell, Caitlin Buckle, Raven Cretney, Theresa Harada, Mohd Fabian Hasna, Natalie Kon-yu, Fatemeh Shahani, Shanti Sumartojo, Ellen Van Holstein, Peta Wolifson

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Geography in Higher Education

This article explores diverse ways of experiencing the city through an experimental field-based workshop supported by the Institut..

The social boundary work of new middle-class organic gardeners in Bangalore, India

Ellen van Holstein

Journal article  |  2019  |  Urban Forestry & Urban Greening

Organic gardening is increasingly being performed as a marker of middle-classness. As the middle class is expanding in countries s..

Shifting settler-colonial discourses of environmentalism: Representations of indigeneity and migration in Australian conservation

Ellen van Holstein, Lesley Head

Journal article  |  2018  |  Geoforum

Western environmentalism and conservation are deeply entangled with histories of colonialism. This entanglement has marginalised I..

Digital geographies of grassroots securitisation

Ellen van Holstein

Journal article  |  2018  |  Social & Cultural Geography

Digital surveillance and securitisation technologies are becoming an increasingly ubiquitous part of everyday lives. Constellation..

Experiences of Participatory Planning in Contexts of Inequality: A Qualitative Study of Urban Renewal Projects in Colombia

Ellen van Holstein

Journal article  |  2018  |  Planning Theory & Practice

Participatory planning is widely promoted to restore democratic legitimacy and inclusion. Based on interviews in marginalised neig..

Relating to nature, food and community in community gardens

Ellen van Holstein

Journal article  |  2017  |  Local Environment

This paper sheds critical light on the motivations and practices of community gardeners in relatively affluent neighbourhoods. The..

Transplanting, plotting, fencing: relational property practices in community gardens

Ellen van Holstein

Journal article  |  2016  |  Environment and Planning A Economy and Space

Community gardening is an increasingly popular phenomenon. Local governments wishing to ‘green’ the city and make the urban enviro..