The semiotic field of the garden : personal culture and collective culture

"This book is not only a direct study of gardens, but also an exploration of the relationship between personal and collective culture, an important component of cultural psychology. This perspective leads to the strange but fascinating question: "How does gardening relate to human developm...

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Other Authors Tsuchimoto, Teppei (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K : Emerald Publishing Limited : Information Age Publishing, Inc., [2024]
SeriesAdvances in cultural psychology.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781806600717
DOI10.1108/979-8-88730-636-0
Physical Description1 online resource (472 pages) : illustrations

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Table of Contents:
  • Series editors preface--cultivating gardens: Dialogues within the self / Jaan Valsiner. Editorial Introduction--Expanding the Concept of the Garden: From Japanese Zen Gardens to Human Development / Teppei Tsuchimoto
  • Part I: Gardens with human life
  • Chapter 1. The garden as a symbolic space: Trajectories of affective-semiotic cultivation / Daniela Schmitz Wortmeyer
  • Chapter 2. Garden as a sign of happiness / Ramon Cerqueira Gomes
  • Chapter 3. Mirrors of a garden: Understanding ecological units over time / Enno Freiherr von Fircks and Marc Antoine Campill
  • Chapter 4. I need a garden, a survivor said: A garden as a place where survivors become relational beings for disaster recovery / Ryohei Miyamae
  • Chapter 5. Radioactive waste publicly placed in a space that used to be a yard as a private place: Time and sign in the designated evacuation areas after fukushima nuclear power plant accident / Tomoo Hidaka and Hideaki Kasuga
  • Chapter 6. Commentary
  • Part Ia--multilayered and complex issue of garden / Eemeli Hakoköngäs
  • Chapter 7. Commentary
  • Part Ib--commentary to the garden: A place to cultivate in pain and comfort / Marc Antoine Campill
  • Part II: Garden metaphor: Exploring personal < > collective culture
  • Chapter 8. From god's garden to garden of memories: Personal and collective cultures in a northern Finland cemetery / Eemeli Hakoköngäs
  • Chapter 9. The humanistic garden of the renaissance: Where human, society and cosmos meet: An Introduction to machiavelli's political ideas. Line joranger
  • Chapter 11. Constant fear of ostracism / Miho Zlazli
  • Chapter 12. Djinns and radioactive materials: An abductive autoethnography on a garden of invisible entities / Yusuke Katsura
  • Chapter 13. The transition of a beginning nursery teacher's interaction with children from a garden perspective / Kiyoshi Hamana
  • Chapter 14. Commentary
  • Part IIa--garden as an expression of human life / Ramon Cerqueira Gomes
  • Chapter 15. Commentary
  • Part IIb--enriching the semiotic field of the garden through metaphors / Enno von Fircks
  • Part III: Moving through gardens: A journey to self-cultivation
  • Chapter 16. Cultivation in self and environment: When a voice echoes from one garden to another / Marc Antoine Campill
  • Chapter 17. Moving through racial gardens: Personal and collective dimensions of racial becoming: A transcultural autoethnographic account / Márcio de Abreu
  • Chapter 18. Life in a different soil: My existential mobility as an immigrant / Rennan Okawa
  • Chapter 19. Chinese-born korean people's experience and present-day Japan: Using tea / Akiko Ichikawa
  • Chapter 20. Qualia of transgender experiences: What visual images tells us / Naoto Machida
  • Chapter 21. Commentary
  • Part IIIa--self-cultivation: The process of finding space for oneself and others / Line Joranger
  • Chapter 22. Commentary
  • Part IIIb--the garden as a metaphor for cultivation of the self and the other / Daniela Schmitz Wortmeyer
  • Part IV: The garden project the garden project: Initiating international cultural exchange through gardens / Teppei Tsuchimoto, Yuki Saito, Misato Furuse, And Tatsuya Sato
  • Chapter 23. The inner sanctum as a garden of buddha and the people who take care of it: How the priest's eldest son discovered the garden / Gishin Tsukuba
  • Chapter 24. Analysis of personal culture appearing in the Japanese garden / Megumi Nishikawa
  • Chapter 25. Personal feeling toward three gardens in my life: Example of the yu garden / Xiaoxue Chen
  • Chapter 26. Garden as infinity / Fumiyuki Taka
  • Chapter 27. Commentary
  • Part IV: Reflecting on oneself and garden: Projecting happy memories into the future / Tatsuya Sato. Epilogue: Living With Gardening / Living as Gardening, Teppei Tsuchimoto.