Month: July 2025

New documentary on suburban gardens and the Anthropocene

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How is your garden related to the Anthropocene? This rather large question is the starting point for the documentary “Paradisets bakside” (Shadow of Paradise), now available with both Norwegian and English subtitles on VitenTV. The documentary is based on research findings from Gardening the globe. Through domestic, suburban gardening, it explores the emergence of the Anthropocene as e.g. transnational processes of moving nature, eradication as part of the everyday life in gardens, contemporary gardens as Continue reading New documentary on suburban gardens and the Anthropocene→

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Moving nature in the Nordic countries

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In June, Kyrre, Frida and Marit from Gardening the Globe hosted a panel entitled Moving nature in the Nordic countries and beyond at the 36th Nordic Ethnology and Folklore Conference. The background for the panel was how the transport of plants, animals, minerals, and other natural substances has played an important part in creating present day environmental problems such as climate change, pollution and biodiversity loss. In this sense, we might say that moving nature characterizes Continue reading Moving nature in the Nordic countries→