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(2009) Symbolic landscapes, Dordrecht, Springer.
The notion of gardening at a Japanese garden functions as a metaphor for our enactive geography. This chapter illustrates the geographical turn in epistemology and ontology in which a non-substantive geographicity is developed. It captures metaphorically our notion of a non-dualistic, ambiguous field of being, but in a way that deconstructs our residual ways of thinking, which is apropos of the Zen thematic. What is Japanese of a Japanese garden is neither an essence/substance nor a social construction, but rather is a spatialized/spatializing enactment, a participatory process of cultivation—a cultivation of neither self nor garden, but the "spatiating" (the genesis of space) event.
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-8703-5_15
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Murungi, J. (2009)., Gardening at a Germanese garden, in G. Backhaus & J. Murungi (eds.), Symbolic landscapes, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 305-321.
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