Paradise Transplanted – Migration and the Making of California Gardens - Hardcover

Hondagneu–sotel, Pierrette

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520277767 ISBN 13: 9780520277762

Publisher: University of California Press, 2014

Synopsis

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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Review:

"The book is a tour de force, essential reading for all who want to know more about the Californian landscape." British Journal of Sociology "...illuminates social organization of the region far beyond gardens, with obvious significance outside Southern California." Gender & Society

About the Author:

Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo is Professor of Sociology at the University of Southern California and the author of Gendered Transitions, God's Heart Has No Borders, and Domestica. She is regarded as one of the most accomplished and imaginative immigration scholars in sociology today.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0520277767
• ISBN 13: 9780520277762
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 314