Gardens, Transitions and Identity Reconstruction among Older Chinese Immigrants to New Zealand-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Gardens, Transitions and Identity Reconstruction among Older Chinese Immigrants to New Zealand

Published:2010-07 Issue:5 Volume:15 Page:786-796
ISSN:1359-1053
Container-title:Journal of Health Psychology
language:en
Short-container-title:J Health Psychol

Author:

Wen Li Wendy¹,Hodgetts Darrin²,Ho Elsie³

Affiliation:

1. University of Waikato, New Zealand,

2. University of Waikato, New Zealand

3. University of Auckland, New Zealand

Abstract

Psychologists have foregrounded the importance of links between places and daily practices in the construction of subjectivities and well-being. This article explores domestic gardening practices among older Chinese immigrants. Initial and follow-up interviews were conducted with 32 Chinese adults ranging in age from 62 to 77 years. Participants recount activities such as gardening as a means of forging a new sense of self and place in their adoptive country. Gardening provides a strategy for self-reconstruction through spatiotemporally establishing biographical continuity between participants’ old lives in China and their new lives in New Zealand.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Applied Psychology

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/1359105310368179

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