The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times illuminates the ways in which the garden as a real and imagined space, and gardening as a practice or ethic, is changed under extreme conditions of economic and environmental austerity. Intro --...
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The Poetics and Politics of Gardening in Hard Times illuminates the ways in which the garden as a real and imagined space, and gardening as a practice or ethic, is changed under extreme conditions of economic and environmental austerity. Intro -- Contents -- Chapter One: Austerity Gardens -- Part I: Roots -- Chapter Two: Sissinghurst -- Chapter Three: Digging up England -- Part II: Plots -- Chapter Four: Narratives of Nettle -- Chapter Five: Gardening in the Anthropocene -- Chapter Six: Zoological Gardens, Austerity, and Staging the Extinction of the "Last" Thylacine -- Part III: Paths -- Chapter Seven: Life on Pig Row -- Chapter Eight: Embodiment in Gardening -- Index -- About the Contributors.
