Regional, migrant and global affinities to place in 'Seeds: A Permaculture Travel Memoir'
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https://doi.org/10.1017/qre.2017.35Keywords:
transnational travel memoir, regional identity, affinities to place, local/global binaryAbstract
This article explores the traces of an author’s regional identity in a transnational travel memoir in which affinities to place are portrayed as pluralistic and fluid. It does so in order to explore the tenuous balance between ecocentric understanding of self within a community of ‘earth others’ on the one hand and fidelity to a regionally precise ‘home’ on the other. This constitutes an open-ended
encounter with regionalism and ‘site-fidelity’ to destabilise the local/global binary. New understandings of foreign landscapes, places and cultures can be brokered upon a dialogue between those newly encountered landscape places, and the more intimately known regions from an individual’s past.
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