I love being in the garden
Enchanting Encounters in Everyday Life
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3978157 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Bhatti (University of Brighton), Andrew Church (0000-0003-4863-8794, University of Brighton), Amanda Claremont (University of Brighton), Paul Stenner (0000-0003-4505-6422, University of Brighton) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 10 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 61-76 |
| Publication date | 2009-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649360802553202 |
| OpenAlex | W2085294173 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 28 |
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
Art · Ethnology · Everyday life · Humanities · Sociology · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Philosophy · Posthumanist Ethics and Activism
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| Unique citing works | 47 |
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| Citations per year | 2,94 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |