The Semiotic Field of the Garden
Personal Culture and Collective Culture
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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 development?"
Exploring the meaning of “garden” for a human being offers profound insights on the relationship between personal and collective culture. In the process of constructing of a garden, nature becomes the object, on which various liminal, aesthetic, and symbolic activities are directly performed. The term “garden” encompasses a multitude of meanings. It is a place for recreation as well as a symbol of social status and prosperity. For the gardener, it is a place of work. Feelings aroused by a garden are deeply rooted in people’s hearts and have an aesthetic significance. Throughout the book, readers will be awakened to how deeply the garden is connected to the human psyche.
This book will be of interest to scholars and students of cultural psychology, as well as to anyone interested in the relationship between people and gardens (gardeners, architects, artists, farmers). Readers are encouraged to look back at their own experiences to deepen their understanding of personal and collective culture. Imagine the garden you are familiar with, be it a home garden, neighborhood park, cemetery, or schoolyard. You may find that facets of your experiences are reflected in the colorful and diverse gardens featured in this book.
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.