Domestic Wild: Memory, Nature and Gardening in Suburbia

In Domestic Wild, Franklin Ginn sets out to find a new sense of the wild at the heart of modernity. Inspired by experienced, skilful gardeners, Ginn analyses what happens when plants, animals and people meet in the suburbs of London. Weaving major theories of landscape, memory and nonhuman subjectivity with the practical wisdom of gardeners, this b

Autorentext
Franklin Ginn is a Lecturer in Cultural and Historical Geography at the University of Bristol, UK.

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Introduction

1 Inheriting Landscape: Suburban Histories and the Force of the Past

2 Dig for Victory and the Demands of Remembering

3 Childhood, Seed and Beings of Fiction: Becoming an Authentic Gardener

4 The Possibilities of a Plant

5 Awkward Flourishing: Death of the Unwanted

Conclusion