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Wellbeing and Self-Transformation in Natural Landscapes

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Authors:
  1. Rebecca Crowther

    1. University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

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  • Discusses why people from urban environments like visiting natural spaces

  • Explores how and why people perceive the outdoors as positively transformational

  • Provides new methodological frameworks for approaching research in the connection between well being and nature

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction: The Phenomenon

    • Rebecca Crowther
    Pages 1-48

  3. A Transdisciplinary Ethnography

    • Rebecca Crowther
    Pages 49-77

  4. Getting Out, Goethe, and Serendipitous Ethnography

    • Rebecca Crowther
    Pages 79-140

  5. The Journey, Belonging, and the Self

    • Rebecca Crowther
    Pages 141-183

  6. The Liminal Loop

    • Rebecca Crowther
    Pages 185-236

  7. Anthropocentrism, Agency, and the Transforming Self

    • Rebecca Crowther
    Pages 237-273

  8. Conclusion: Performed Identities and Being a Good Person

    • Rebecca Crowther
    Pages 275-298

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 299-308
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About this book

This book explores how natural landscapes are linked to positive mental wellbeing. While natural landscapes have long been represented and portrayed as transformative, the link to mental wellbeing is an area that researchers are still aiming to comprehend. Accompanying five groups of people to rural Scotland, the author considers individual, external and group motivations for journeying from urban environments, examining in what ways these excursions are personally and socially transformative. 

Far more than traversing mere physical boundaries, this book illustrates the new challenges, experiences, territories and cultures provided by these excursions, firmly anchored in the Scottish countryside. In doing so, the author questions the extent to which people’s own narratives link to the perception that the outdoors are positively transformative – and what indeed does have the power to influence transformation. 


Grounded in extensive qualitative research, this contemplative and ethnographic book will be of interest and value to students and scholars of the outdoors and its connection to wellbeing. 

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK

    Rebecca Crowther

About the author

Rebecca Crowther is a transdisciplinary ethnographic researcher working between, across and beyond disciplines within the arts, humanities and social sciences. Her research interests lie in the phenomenological experience of natural landscapes.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Wellbeing and Self-Transformation in Natural Landscapes

  • Authors: Rebecca Crowther

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97673-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-97672-3Published: 04 October 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07387-9Published: 28 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-97673-0Published: 20 September 2018

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 308

  • Number of Illustrations: 22 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Environment Studies, Social Anthropology, Human Geography, Environmental Geography, Community and Environmental Psychology

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