Painting with natural pigments on drowning land: the necessity of beauty in a new economy

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Table 1. Summary of main themes and the ‘four planar social being’.

Empirical theme	Corresponding level in Bhaskar’s model^a
Discovering beauty in nature	Material transactions with nature (ecological)
Fellowship: transcending borders	Social interactions (ethical)
Awakening people to action and transformation through artworks	Social structures (economical)
Discovering one’s own dignity: growing resources to move forward	Inner being: alienation/flourishing (existential)

^a Alderson (2013, 2016) has demonstrated the practical relevance of this model in her childhood studies and has inspired this analysis.

Alderson, P. 2013. Childhoods Real and Imagined: Volume 1: An Introduction to Critical Realism and Childhood Studies. London: Routledge.

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Alderson, P. 2016. The Politics of Childhoods, Real and Imagined: Volume 2: Practical Application of Critical Realism and Childhood Studies. London: Routledge.

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