The nature of home : taking root in a place / Greta Gaard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gaard, Greta Claire.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Home--Psychological aspects.

Home.

Ecofeminism.

Social justice.

Gaard, Greta Claire.

West (U.S.).

Physical Description:

ix, 213 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, [2007]

Summary:

"As long as humans have been around, we've had to move in order to survive." So arises that most universal and elemental human longing for home, and so begins Greta Gaard's exploration of just precisely what it means to be at home in the world. Gaard journeys through the deserts of southern California, through the High Sierras, the Wind River Mountains, and the North Cascades, through the wildlands and waterways of Washington and Minnesota, through snow season, rain season, mud season, and lilac season, yet her essays transcend mere description of natural beauty to investigate the interplay between place and identity. Gaard examines the earliest environments of childhood and the relocations of adulthood, expanding the feminist insight that identity is formed through relationships to include relationships to place. "Home" becomes not a static noun but an active verb: the process of cultivating the connections with place and people that shape who we become.

Contents:

Looking for home

Year one: history and identity

Women/water

Family of land

Year two: place and workplace

Whatcom Creek

Wilderness

Year three: home/economics

Climbing

Silver Lake

Year four: oil and water

Explosion

Body, midlife

Year five: impermanence

Food and shelter

The dance

Epilogue

The headwaters

Acknowledgments

Bibliography.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 207-209).

ISBN:

9780816525768

0816525765

OCLC:

145732911