Honoring the duallium: disability, environmental ethics, and the implicit religion of gardening
Working within the discourses of material feminisms, disability studies, environmental ethics and religious studies, I analyse the letters between friends Carol Graham Chudley and Dorothy Field published in Between Gardens (1999) about gardening, friendship and disability. I translate the experience...
| Published in: | Culture and religion |
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| Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
Taylor & Francis
[2015]
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| In: |
Culture and religion
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Disability studies
/ Environmental ethics
/ Gardening
/ Invisible religion
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| RelBib Classification: | AD Sociology of religion; religious policy NCG Environmental ethics; Creation ethics ZB Sociology |
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Volltext (doi) |
| Summary: | Working within the discourses of material feminisms, disability studies, environmental ethics and religious studies, I analyse the letters between friends Carol Graham Chudley and Dorothy Field published in Between Gardens (1999) about gardening, friendship and disability. I translate the experiences of illness and/or disability in the human body, to that of illness and/or damage of the rest of the natural world. My central questions are: What kinds of stories can we tell from peripheral positions of embodiment and connection that recognise the realities of impairment and/or illness and/or brokenness? How can we tell such stories without falling back on a romantic ideal of 'cure' as a future goal that is held in opposition to our experience of the 'poor unfortunate' disabled body/damaged earth, which puts us in a distanced, paternalistic position? What are the spiritual implications of these material narratives with their potential for supplying strategies for environmental ethics? |
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| ISSN: | 1475-5610 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Culture and religion
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14755610.2015.1083453 |