Honoring the duallium: disability, environmental ethics, and the implicit religion of gardening.

Autor/in	Klassen, Chris
Titel	Honoring the duallium: disability, environmental ethics, and the implicit religion of gardening.
Quelle	In: Culture and religion, (2015) 3, S.243 PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext (2); PDF als Volltext (3) Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1475-5610
DOI	10.1080/14755610.2015.1083453
Schlagwörter	Implicit religion; Gardening; Disability; Storytelling; Nature; Feminism; Discourse analysis; Gardens & gardening; Environmental ethics; Religion
Abstract	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?
Erfasst von	OLC
Update	2022/1/02