ABSTRACT

In Domestic Wild, Franklin Ginn sets out to find a new sense of the wild at the heart of modernity. Inspired by experienced, skilful gardeners, Ginn analyses what happens when plants, animals and people meet in the suburbs of London. Weaving major theories of landscape, memory and nonhuman subjectivity with the practical wisdom of gardeners, this book offers a radical new account of everyday gardening. Amid spectacular horizons of planetary loss, Domestic Wild argues that gardening offers a means to cultivate a renewed sense of intimacy with nature and ourselves.

chapter |17 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|27 pages

Inheriting landscape

Suburban histories and the force of the past

chapter 3|27 pages

Childhood, seed and beings of fiction

Becoming an authentic gardener

chapter 4|27 pages

The possibilities of a plant

chapter 5|19 pages

Awkward flourishing

Death of the unwanted

chapter |5 pages

Conclusion