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Accepted Paper:

Gardens as Instances of Growth, Time and Value: cases from North Vanuatu  
Carlos Mondragon (El Colegio de México)

Paper short abstract:

This paper takes gardens in the Torres Islands, North Vanuatu, as instantiations of broader ideas about growth, creation, and temporality in a small island society. The aim is to think about effort and growth in holistic frames.

Paper long abstract:

In this paper I will discuss the concept of growth and temporality in the Torres Islands, Vanuatu, through the lens of gardening. I want to explore key ideas of growth, process, beauty and temporality by focusing on how the members of this small island society give shape to their main food-producing spaces. I am especially interested in viewing gardens as instantiations of broader processes of human-environmental transformation. I also want to direct my exploration towards a discussion of local ideas about making things, about manufacturing in the strict sense of the term (as in things made with the hands, Lat. 'manus'). Thus, I hope to employ gardening, in the sense of humanised landscaping, as a point of entry to a discussion about broader, holistic frames for thinking about environment, temporality, creation and value.I will draw on contributions to environmental anthropology and historical ecology which highlight social process, materiality, and transformation.

Panel P058
Making and Growing: the art of gardens
  Session 1 Saturday 2 June, 2018, -