Rishbeth, C. orcid.org/0000-0002-1648-5183 and Birch, J. orcid.org/0000-0003-0155-0242 (2021) Urban nature and transnational lives. Population, Space and Place, 27 (4). e2416. ISSN 1544-8444
Abstract
This paper explores ways in which first generation migrants living in a UK city engage with urban nature. Through understanding mundane connections with local nature (plants, animals and seasons), we attend to two questions ‘what can narratives of urban nature tell us about experiences of migration’, and inversely ‘what can diverse migrant voices tell us about experiences of urban nature’? We draw on interview data with 23 participants, all born overseas, with a diverse mix in terms of age (young adults to older retired people), gender, country of origin and length of time resident in the United Kingdom. The analysis focuses on three areas: multisensory engagements with weather, care for nature and how transnational identities surface through the relational dimensions of nature narratives. We conclude by highlighting the potential of embodied nature engagement to support a sense of wellbeing and transnational identity across the life‐course, with potential to more broadly reflect pluralist understandings of the urban environment.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. Population, Space and Place published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Keywords: | cities; diversity; greenspace; natural environments; migrant; wellbeing |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Landscape Architecture (Sheffield) |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL NE/N013565/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2021 13:58 |
Last Modified: | 01 Feb 2022 12:16 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/psp.2416 |
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Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:169618 |