Date of Award
4-19-2024
Document Type
Honors Thesis
Department
Social Work
First Advisor
Stacie Hatfield
Second Advisor
Kristin Denslow
Abstract
Permaculture is a holistic design system for meeting human and environmental needs in a sustainable way, using local conditions and circumstances to shape land use and food production practices. My project questions what it means to practice permaculture in southwest Michigan, and how environmental ideological commitments can translate into action and practice. Ethnographically investigating these questions through semi-structured interviews and participant observation with individuals in the permaculture community, along with extensive reading of permaculture materials, my study adds to research on applications and adoptions of permaculture in suburban contexts, and sheds light on how ecological ideological commitments can translate into actions.
Recommended Citation
Burke, Lily, "An Ethnography of Permaculture in Southwest Michigan" (2024). Honors Theses. 278.
https://digitalcommons.andrews.edu/honors/278
Subject Area
Permaculture--MIchigan; Ethnology; Sustainability--Michigan
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