Agriculture Reference
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'those who cannot or who do not want to make property out of their relations to
others' (2004b, 91) enables the exploration, 'of how something has different values
in different relations, different contexts, enabling us to break through the dominant
symbolic understandings premised on exchange' (2004b, 89). In this way, we can
begin to move beyond simply seeing working-class culture as lack or bad choice.
By making the shift to thinking about the use-value of sentimental capital and
its attachment to gardening, one can appreciate the forms of valuing which inhere
in how it is continually re-made by the working-class people of this topic. Focusing
on how sentimental capital is used shores up its good things: caring for the garden
as part of the home and for the people past and present who have been part of those
processes. In these ways, gardening practices become bound by sentiment as an
affective means by which those who told and listened became part of the on-going
history of a shared community.
