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Connecting With and Caring for Nature: Practical Bricolage, Investment, and Identity at an Urban Nature Centre /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Connecting With and Caring for Nature: Practical Bricolage, Investment, and Identity at an Urban Nature Centre // Tyler James Bateman.
Author:	Bateman, Tyler James,
Description:	1 electronic resource (193 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-10, Section: B.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International86-10B.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=31763549
ISBN:	9798310389854

Connecting With and Caring for Nature: Practical Bricolage, Investment, and Identity at an Urban Nature Centre /
Bateman, Tyler James,

Connecting With and Caring for Nature: Practical Bricolage, Investment, and Identity at an Urban Nature Centre /Tyler James Bateman. - 1 electronic resource (193 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 86-10, Section: B.

This dissertation examines the practice of connecting with nature as a path to caring for the environment. It is based on a 5-year ethnographic project at a nature organization in Toronto, Ontario that facilitates nature programs for children, adolescents, and adults. The dissertation asks: (1) What leads people to engage in the practice of connecting with nature? (2) What mechanism links connecting with and caring for nature? and (3) How do people who engage in this practice understand the environmental identity of the naturalist? The dissertation describes my findings that: (1) people engage in the practice of connecting with nature through a process of practical bricolage that combines nature's materiality and the culture of nature connection; (2) people link knowledge and emotion during the connecting with nature practice, and these links create opportunities for extending the self into nature, such as people thinking of themselves as people who "love fungi", which leads to caring for nature; and, (3) the identity of the naturalist is partially embraced by those who have a consistent relationship with nature and they primarily define it through knowledge and spending time relating to nature outside. To explain and elaborate these findings, the dissertation engages with theoretical discussions in environmental sociology, cultural sociology, and social science more generally on investment and the self, personal initiative and identity, the material/cultural debate, and the sociology of becoming. Moreover, it develops analytical frameworks of care, emotion-knowledge interconnections, identity, and the co-constitution of the material and cultural. The dissertation also highlights how the practice of connecting with nature and the naturalist identity are not equally distributed and discusses how access to this practice and to the naturalist identity can be understood as part of advancing sustainability. Practically, the dissertation demonstrates that a consistent relationship with nature over time, rather than single life-changing experiences, leads people to take interest in the practice of connecting with nature and helps people learn to care for nature.

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ISBN: 9798310389854Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Sociology.
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