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aesthetics
Author_Lisa Taylor
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Charlie Dimmock
class
cultural identity formation
Emotional Capital
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ethnographic research methods
Female Gardeners
Garden Aesthetics
Garden History
Garden Makeover
Garden Practices
gardeners
gendered leisure practices
Ground Force
ideas
lifestyle
Lifestyle Garden
Lifestyle Ideas
Lifestyle Media
Lifestyle Television
Lifestyle Texts
Makeover Genre
Makeover Programme
media
media influence on gardening aesthetics
Middle Class Garden
Middle Class Respondents
ordinary
Ordinary Gardeners
practices
qualitative consumption analysis
Red Hot Pokers
Sentimental Capital
social stratification studies
Sweet Peas
symbolic communication
Vice Versa
work
working
Working Class Aesthetics
Working Class Culture
Working Class Gardeners
Product details
- ISBN 9780367605643
- Weight: 420g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2020
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Is the garden a consumption site where identities are constructed? Do gardeners make aesthetic choices according to how they are positioned by class and gender? This book presents the first scholarly analysis of the relationship between media interest in gardening and cultural identities. With an examination of aesthetic dispositions as a symbolic mode of communication closely aligned to peoples' identities and drawing on ethnographic data gathered from encounters with gardeners, this book maps a typology of gardening taste, revealing that gardening - how plants are chosen, planted and cared for - is a classed and gendered practice manifested in specific types of visual aesthetics. This timely and original book develops a new area within cultural studies while contributing to debates about lifestyle and lifestyle media, consumption, class and methodology. A must read for anybody concerned with or intrigued by the cultural construction of identification practices.
Lisa Taylor is Senior Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies at Leeds Metropolitan University. She has published widely in the field and is the co-author of the international best-selling textbook 'Media Studies: Texts, Institutions and Audiences' (with Andrew Willis, 1999).
