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Natural—With No Artificial Additives

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The Eco-Certified Child

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The chapter analyzes what it means that the eco-certified child is repeatedly described as a nature-loving person—one who likes being outdoors, discovering and caring for the nature. But to pass as environmentally friendly nature-lover, not any way of being in the nature counts. On the contrary, nature is here understood as a metaphorical place organizing desirable and undesirable ways of living organized by cultural norms for race and social class; all inside the discourse of Western modernity. With help from Nirmal Puwar it is discussed how different places—the sacral nature respectively the urban ghetto—are culturally attached to different kinds of people, and how the ones crossing the borders become “space invaders” who are disturbing the sense of an imagined community.

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Notes

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    This has been discussed in a number of dissertations in preschool research. See e.g. Ärlemalm-Hagsér (2013), Sjöstrand-Öhrfelt (2014), Thulin (2011).

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    Louv described this first in the book Last Child in the Woods (2005). Two years later the same man made the appeal “Leave no child inside” to the US Congress, by analogy with George W. Bush’s school reform “No child left behind” (Louv, 2007). For further discussion of this see Sjöstrand-Öhrfelt (2014).

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    This can be compared with the fact that the WWF was founded as a reaction to the way the European colonial powers in Africa and Asia left the natural paradises to their fate, as discussed in the previous chapter. The WWF did not trust that these places would be properly cared for when the knowledgeable and rational Westerners were no longer there (Ideland & Tröhler, 2015).

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Ideland, M. (2019). Natural—With No Artificial Additives. In: The Eco-Certified Child. Palgrave Studies in Education and the Environment. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-00199-5_5

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