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Moveable Gardens - Itineraries and Sanctuaries of Memory

English · Paperback / Softback

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Virginia D. Nazarea is a professor of anthropology at the University of Georgia. She has written or edited several books on biodiversity, most recently Heirloom Seeds and Their Keepersand Seeds of Resistance, Seeds of Hope.
Terese Gagnon is a PhD candidate at Syracuse University, where she is writing her dissertation in dialogue with Karen individuals from Myanmar, exploring relationships between people, plants, and sensory politics in forced migration and exile.


Summary

Explores how biodiversity and food can counter the alienation caused by displacement. The book carefully considers various forms of sanctuary making within communities, and seeks to address how carrying seeds, plants, and other travelling companions is an ongoing response to the grave conditions of displacement in today's world.

Product details

Assisted by Terese Gagnon (Editor), Virginia D Nazarea (Editor), Virginia D. Nazarea (Editor)
Publisher The University of Arizona Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 30.06.2021
 
EAN 9780816542215
ISBN 978-0-8165-4221-5
No. of pages 320
Dimensions 152 mm x 226 mm x 22 mm
Weight 440 g
Subjects Guides > Nature > Nature guide
Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology
Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works
Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology

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