Informal Approaches

This note is about a broad range of approaches that rely on informal relationships, do-it-yourself (DIY) methods, local innovation and relationships, bioregionalism, guerrilla approaches, anarchic methods, civic resistance and other related means.

The slow movement, buen vivir

Informal Economies and Communities

Gibson-Graham, J. K. A Postcapitalist Politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Gibson-Graham, J. K. The End of Capitalism (as We Knew It): A Feminist Critique of Political Economy. 1996. Reprint, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006.

Gudynas, Eduardo. ‘Buen Vivir: Today’s Tomorrow’. Development 54, no. 4 (2011): 441–47. https://doi.org/10/fxvz2f.

Informal Urbanism

Finn, Donovan. ‘DIY Urbanism: Implications for Cities’. Journal of Urbanism: International Research on Placemaking and Urban Sustainability 7, no. 4 (2014): 381–98. https://doi.org/10/gf6h4h.

Guerrilla Gardening

Also called urban community gardening. Cf. seed bombing

Reynolds, Richard. On Guerrilla Gardening: A Handbook for Gardening Without Boundaries. London: Bloomsbury, 2014.


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