Sociology Colloquium Presents Dr. Yuki Kato: Gardens of Hope: Cultivating Food and the Future in a Post-Disaster City

Dr. Kato will share insights from Gardens of Hope, the story of urban gardening in New Orleans in the decade after Hurricane Katrina. Gardens of Hope asks key questions about what inspires and enables individuals to pursue prefigurative urbanism and about the potential and limitations of this form of civic engagement to bring about short- and long-term changes in cities undergoing transformation, from gentrification, post-pandemic recovery, to climate change.