Suburban life and the boundaries of nature: resilience and rupture in Australian backyard gardens
Suburban life and the boundaries of nature: resilience and rupture in Australian backyard gardens
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00228.x
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发表时间：
2006-12-01
影响因子：
3.3
通讯作者：
Muir, Pat
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作者：
Head, Lesley;Muir, Pat
尽管从文化/自然关系的二元框架到混合框架的学术转变，环境管理的分离主义范式具有很大的弹性和本土吸引力。由于人类改造的地球面临着紧迫的环境挑战，因此需要更详细地关注它们加固、维护或破裂的条件。我们借鉴了265个澳大利亚后院花园的研究，重点关注两个主题，其中概念和材料边界的做法相互交织;空间边界制作和本土植物。我们追溯了澳大利亚背景下的分离主义方法的弹性，将印第安人/非印第安人置于其他二元论之上，并将其破裂到人，植物，水和鸟类之间密切的日常接触的情况。我们的民族志方法表明，花园是在这种参与过程中态度和做法都可以改变的地方。在一个城市及其居民越来越多地推动可持续发展问题的世界里，这些机构链有助于确定希望和变革潜力以及关注的领域。
Despite an academic shift from dualistic to hybrid frameworks of culture/nature relations, separationist paradigms of environmental management have great resilience and vernacular appeal. The conditions under which they are reinforced, maintained or ruptured need more detailed attention because of the urgent environmental challenges of a humanly transformed earth. We draw on research in 265 Australian backyard gardens, focusing on two themes where conceptual and material bounding practices intertwine; spatial boundary-making and native plants. We trace the resilience of separationist approaches in the Australian context to the overlay of indigeneity/ non-indigeneity atop other dualisms, and their rupture to situations of close everyday engagement between people, plants, water and birds. Our ethnographic methods show that gardens are places where both attitudes and practices can change in the process of such engagements. In a world where questions of sustainability are increasingly driven by cities and their residents, these chains of agency help identify areas of hope and transformative potential as well as concern.