Beyond an analysis of participatory democracy as an answer to the crisis of representative democracy, this edited book analyses a diversity of citizens mobilizations and experimentations, while questioning their novelty and exploring their relations with public institutions.

Kitchen gardens and urban agriculture are at the core of a wide range of social mobilisations and protests; they are turning into symbols of the reinvention of livelihoods and everyday life in towns, as well as of the re-politicisation of food and urban supplies.