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Savage park : a meditation on play, space, and risk for Americans who are nervous, distracted, and afraid to die

Title
Savage park : a meditation on play, space, and risk for Americans who are nervous, distracted, and afraid to die / Amy Fusselman.
Author
Fusselman, Amy
Publication
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.

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Description
135 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
Summary
"Part memoir, part manifesto, this exploration of the underside of America's obsession with safety is prompted by the author's visit to a thrillingly alarming adventure playground in Tokyo "How fully can the world be explored," asks Amy Fusselman ". if you are also trying not to die?" On a visit to Tokyo with her family, Fusselman stumbles on Hanegi playpark, where children are sawing wood, hammering nails, stringing hammocks to trees, building open fires. When she returns to New York, her conceptions of space, risk, and fear are completely changed. Fusselman invites us along on her tightrope-walking expeditions with Philippe Petit and late night adventures with the Tokyo park-workers, showing that when we deprive ourselves, and our children, of the experience of taking risks in space, we make them less safe, not more so. Savage Park is a fresh, poetic reconsideration of behaviors in our culture that -- in the guise of protecting us -- make us numb and encourage us to sleepwalk through our lives. We babyproof our homes; plug our ears to our devices while walking through the city. What would happen if we exposed ourselves, if -- like the children at Hanegi park -- we put ourselves in situations that require true vigilance? Readers of Rebecca Solnit and Cheryl Strayed will delight in the revelations in Savage Park"--
Subject
  • Fusselman, Amy
  • Authors, American > 21st century > Biography
  • Playgrounds > Japan > Tokyo
  • Play (Philosophy)
  • Space > Philosophy
  • Risk-taking (Psychology)
  • BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
  • SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Geography
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134).
Call Number
JFD 15-692
ISBN
  • 9780544303003 (hardback)
  • 0544303008 (hardback)
  • 9780544570207 (trade paper)
  • 0544570200 (trade paper)
  • 9780544303294 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
LCCN
2014034032
OCLC
867609619
Author
Fusselman, Amy, author.
Title
Savage park : a meditation on play, space, and risk for Americans who are nervous, distracted, and afraid to die / Amy Fusselman.
Publisher
Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 131-134).
Research Call Number
JFD 15-692
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