The Slow Garden: Gardening as Deceleration
Much more than a hobby or a leisure activity, gardening is for many gardeners a way of creating a place that escapes our contemporary culture of speed. As a counterpart to acceleration that strongly defines the late modern human condition, resulting in feelings of business, stress and haste, the gar...
| Subtitles: | "Gardening as Social-Spiritual Practice. Special Issue Edited by Johan Roeland" |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2023
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| In: |
Cross currents
Year: 2023, Volume: 73, Issue: 4, Pages: 420-426 |
| Online Access: |
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| Summary: | Much more than a hobby or a leisure activity, gardening is for many gardeners a way of creating a place that escapes our contemporary culture of speed. As a counterpart to acceleration that strongly defines the late modern human condition, resulting in feelings of business, stress and haste, the garden offers a slow zone in which a regime of time operates that differs from the regime of clock time that dominates everyday life. Gardening thus offers an opportunity to find balance in an accelerating world. |
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| ISSN: | 1939-3881 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Cross currents
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1353/cro.2023.a923593 |
