Moveable Gardens - Itineraries and Sanctuaries of Memory

About the author

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