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The Comfrey Almanac

Lookup NU author(s): Dr Gillian JeinORCiD

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Abstract

The Comfrey Almanac is an edited collection produced in collaboration between cultural geographer, Jein (NU) and The Comfrey Project, a Gateshead charity supporting refugees and people seeking asylum. The volume curates community-authored writing, recipes, artworks and seasonal knowledge, as well as commissioned contributions from artists and designers, to contribute to knowledge on migration, urban nature, community food collectives and displaced belonging. Organised through the almanac form, the book challenges monocultural perspectives on land, producing knowledge through its structure, and using seasonality and collective form to foreground everyday ecological and social relations. An editorial essay, Routes and Roots, by Jein provides the book's historical and analytical frame, situating the collection in relation to local migration histories and wider debates in cultural geography and the environmental humanities.

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Editor(s): Jein G

Publication type: Edited Book

Publication status: Published

Edition: 1

Series Title:

Year: 2025

Number of Volumes: 1

Number of Pages: 144

Print publication date: 10/12/2025

Acceptance date: 09/05/2025

Publisher: The Comfrey Project

Place Published: Gateshead

URL: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/sml/news/item/comfrey-almanac/

Notes: This volume contributes to knowledge and understanding across the disciplines of cultural geography, migration studies and the environmental humanities. It does this through its demonstration of how collaborative, creative methodologies can produce publicly engaged and socially grounded forms of research.

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ISBN: 9781036922962

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