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Books > Gardening > General
Gardens are immobile, literally rooted in the earth, but they are
also shaped by migration and by the transnational movement of
ideas, practices, plants, and seeds. In "Paradise Transplanted,"
Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo reveals how successive conquests and
diverse migrations have made Southern California gardens, and in
turn how gardens influence social inequality, work, leisure,
status, and our experiences of nature and community. Drawing on
historical archival research, ethnography, and over one hundred
interviews with a wide range of people including suburban
homeowners, paid Mexican immigrant gardeners, professionals at the
most elite botanical garden in the West, and immigrant community
gardeners in the poorest neighborhoods of inner-city Los Angeles,
this book offers insights into the ways that diverse global
migrations and garden landscapes shape our social world.
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