therapeutic resource-ification of natural and historic environments and social exclusion in the UK and Inner Asia
In many parts of the world, rivers, lakes, hot and mineral springs and seas are valued for their healing or therapeutic qualities. Seen as shared natural resources, these places can improve people’s physical and mental wellbeing. Accessing the Wellbeing Commons explores the relationship between capitalist production of value and social exclusion at bodies of water harnessed for therapeutic purposes in Sikkim (northeast India), Mongolia, and Devon (southwest England). In other words, the project considers how the conversion of blue-scapes into therapeutic resources (re-)makes inequality in these three different contexts.
