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Ooo I’d love to read that!

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I write/ talk about this all the time - particularly from a re-wilding context - this enduring idea is always heading in a very specific direction with particular inferences.

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Gerrard Winstanley and a small group of people went to St George’s Hill in Surrey in the spring of 1694 and began to dig.

jcniala.substack.com/p/what-is-ur... An allotment grows vegetables. But it can also grow food security, friendships, biodiversity, health and a different idea of who the city of for. So why do we so often talk about valuable urban land as though money were the only value it can produce?

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What is urban land for?

Gerrard Winstanley and a small group of people went to St George’s Hill in Surrey in the spring of 1694 and began to dig.

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What is urban land for?

Dr JC Niala @jcniala.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

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I spent 36 months growing alongside allotmenteers & guerilla gardeners 4 my doctorate. 1 of the things I hadn’t expected to learn was: Growing plants is a lot about love. Love travels through allotment fences in bags of surplus food. It appears in neglected city corners people cultivate anyway.

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Dr JC Niala @jcniala.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

One of the oddest things I found while researching allotments was the no 6. A 1908 law says a request from 6 registered voters for allotments must be considered by the council. I spoke with people who’d enacted this. Sometimes changing a city begins with 5 other people. What would you ask for?

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Dr JC Niala @jcniala.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

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Dr JC Niala @jcniala.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Because you wouldn’t be living otherwise.

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Cambridge University Library @theul.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Stomping into #WorldElephantDay with this wonderful 16th-century elephant! 🐘 This elephant and castle is the device (or printer's mark) of Parisian printer François Regnault (d.1540). From Bishop Guillaume Fillâtre’s history of the Order of the Golden Fleece (1517). 📖Sel.2.65

A 16th-century black-and-white woodcut printer's mark showing an elephant with a castle-shaped structure strapped to its back. The castle holds a shield featuring the monogram "FR," and a banner below reads "FRANCOYS REGNAULT."

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2/ I argue that care endures as a guiding idea in museums despite being ambiguous and contested, because it can help bridge past injustices with more equitable and healing futures. But that means asking not only how we care for collections, but what — and whom — that care is for…

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Questioning care for things (and their people) | HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory: Vol 16, No 2

3/…how histories of harm shape it, and what futures it might make possible. For those working with collections and communities: where does ‘care’ help us — and where does it fall short? www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/full/10....

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There is an increasing assertion within the heritage sector that museums holding ethnographic collections should position themselves as spaces of care. Yet the concept of “care” in this context is amb...

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1/ ‘Care’ is everywhere in museums. But what do we actually mean when we say we care for collections — and who gets to decide what care requires? I’ve been thinking about this for some time, so I’m delighted to share my new article for HAU on transforming care. Link in comments

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Link to my HAU article on care in museums…

Link to my HAU article on care in museums…

Dr JC Niala @jcniala.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Utility or indented utility is so important and also has resonance in Euro-American design principles ‘form follows function.’