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‘I love being in the garden’: enchanting encounters in everyday life

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Abstract

This paper examines how the domestic garden is experienced as an intimate place in everyday life. With reference to Bachelard we seek to analyse prosaic pleasures and enchanting encounters that are revealed through multi-sensorial engagements and emotional attachments within the social/natural world. In particular we focus on three modalities of the everyday: work or tasks involved in gardening; that is, sensuous and embodied experiences explored through the notion of haptic perception; ‘cultivation’ in the sense of taking care of the garden, as well as caring for the self and others; and emotional attachments invoking body/place memories, especially of childhood gardens. To illustrate these themes we use garden narratives drawn from the Mass Observation Archive (MOA).

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Output type

Research Output: Contribution to journal Article Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 61-76

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Social and Cultural Geography (Volume 10, Issue 1)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 02/12/2008

Publication status

Published - 02/12/2008

ISSN

1464-9365

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/625140
  • Scopus: 57349120587

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