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Horti-cultural geographies

Abstract

This chapter considers some theoretical, applied, and methodological contributions to ongoing research that frame gardens and gardening as horti-cultural therapeutic assemblages of health and wellbeing. Recent methodological approaches within therapeutic landscapes research utilise different embodied, emotional, and experiential ways by which health can be unearthed, a digging with the pen, that reflects how both gardens and research often emerge in unpromising spaces through sheer hard work and disciplined practice. The place of the garden has been explored in multiple forms in the chapters of this book, identifying gardens as space/place for all: children and adults, insider and outsider, established and new citizen, semi-professional to beginner in cultivation knowledge terms. More broadly, research on how different geographies emerged within the differential health impacts of COVID-19 found a global trend towards greater impacts in deprived parts of cities, often affecting those with least access to green spaces and characterised by larger proportions of ethnic minorities.

Authors

Foley R

Book title

Cultivated Therapeutic Landscapes

Pagination

pp. 283-296

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Publication Date

July 25, 2023

DOI

10.4324/9781003355731-18

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Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

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