Contents

       Preface

       Acknowledgments

       1. Introduction: Travelling Without Moving

       My moving in Totnes

       Transition, Totnes and comparison

       2. Transition: A Publishing History

       Beginnings and instruction manuals

       Recipe books and collections of short stories

       How this book differs from previous work

       An invitation to the phenomenology of Transition

       Part 1: The Moving Transition

       3. ‘Everything Gardens’, Gardens Everywhere

       Gardening in Transition

       Food and the experience of ‘community’

       Critical food cultures

       4. Inner Transition

       What does Inner Transition do?

       ‘Inner work’: implicit and explicit

       Conclusion

       5. Transition Money

       LETS and local currencies

       Alternative currencies and Transition

       The Totnes Pound

       6. REconomy

       Deeper into the REconomy project

       And back into Transition

       The Local Entrepreneur Forum

       REconomy-type projects

       Part II: The Unfolding of a Form of Life

       7. Exemplars and Experimentation

       Exemplars and relating differences

       Exemplars and circulation

       Exemplars as incubation

       Exemplars as skilled performances

       Conclusion

       8. Insiders/Outsiders

       The changing face of Inner Transition

       The ‘No to Costa’ campaign

       Transition and inclusivity

       9. The Politics of Unfolding Experience

       Peak oil as shared sensory topic

       Transition as a search for orientation

       Transition as ‘imaginative universal’ and living tradition

       Harmonising drift and novelty inside Transition

       The politics of everyday experience in Transition

       Conclusion

       10. Conclusion

       A glimpse of Transition practices

       The moving of Transition

       Growing Transition culture

       Notes

       Bibliography

      ebook edition first published in the United Kingdom in 2015 by University of Plymouth Press, Endsleigh Place, Drake Circus, Plymouth, Devon, PL4 8AA, United Kingdom.

      eISBN 978-1-84102-387-8

      © University of Plymouth Press 2015

      © Luigi Russi 2015

      The rights of this work have been asserted by Luigi Russi and R. C. Smith in accordance with the Crown Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      A CIP catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library ISBN 978-1-84102-380-9.

      Publisher: Paul Honeywill

      Editor: Harriet McClure

      All rights reserved. No part of Everything Gardens and other Stories may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means whether electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of UPP. Any person who carries out any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

      Praise for Everything Gardens and other stories

      Russi almost achieves the impossible in providing a rich and polyvalent description of an idea on the wing. Academics might recognise a kind of phenomenology in his approach, which is more akin to smelling and tasting, than weighing and measuring. Everything Gardens explores from within, Transition as a process of incubation or the deliberative unfolding of an alternative to consumer capitalism – a pattern language for a more place-generative, ecologically recursive form of local economy. Poetic and optimistic, Russi’s book adds ‘participant permaculture’ to the social science playbook. This is a new methodology that I am sure will become part of the repertoire.

      Stephen Quilley, Associate Professor of Environmental and Social Innovation, University of Waterloo, Canada

      What is Transition? That is the question that is at the core of this book. How do we go about Transition? How is Transition defined? At what point is Transition perceived as complete? The difficulty of these