Volume 1 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of planetary Relations What are the sources of our deepest evolutionary and planetary connections, and of our profound longing for kinship? We live in an astounding World of relations.
John Hausdoerffer is author of Catlin\'s Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature as well as co-author and co-editor of Wildness: Relations of People and Place and Wha.
She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens domestic and wild.
As a writer and a scientist, her interests include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land.
Her writings include Gathering Moss and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants .
She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and a student of the plant nations.
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, botanist, writer and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York and the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
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If he\'s not up a tree or in a kayak, you can find Gavin slow-walking the footpaths, beaches, and forests of the Chicagoland area.
He is the co-editor (with John Hausdoerffer) of Wildness: Relations of People and Place , and (with Dave Aftandilian) City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness , and the author of The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds .
His writing is tangled up in the ongoing conversation between humans, our nonhuman kin, and the animate landscape.
About author(s): Gavin Van Horn is the Creative Director and Executive Editor for the Center for Humans and Nature.
The Center brings together philosophers, ecologists, artists, political scientists, anthropologists, poets and economists, among others, to think creatively about a resilient future for the whole community of life. "Remember," Harjo implores, "all is in motion, is growing, is you." Proceeds from sales of Kinship benefit the nonprofit, non-partisan Center for Humans and Nature, which partners with some of the brightest minds to explore human responsibilities to each other and the more-than-human world.
National poet laureate Joy Harjo opens up the volume asking us to "Remember the sky you were born under." The essayists and poets that follow--such as geologist Marcia Bjornerud who takes readers on a Deep Time journey, geophilosopher David Abram who imagines the Earth\'s breathing through animal migrations, and theoretical physicist Marcelo Gleiser who contemplates the Relations between mystery and science--offer perspectives from around the World and from various cultures about what it means to be an Earthling, and all that we share in common with our planetary kin. "Planet," Volume 1 of the Kinship series, focuses on our Earthen home and the cosmos within which our "pale blue dot" of a Planet nestles.
With every breath, every sip of water, every meal, we are reminded that our lives are inseparable from the life of the world--and the cosmos--in ways both material and spiritual.
Drew Lanham, and Sharon Blackie--invite readers into cosmologies, narratives, and everyday interactions that embrace a more-than-human World as worthy of our response and responsibility.
More than 70 contributors--including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Powers, David Abram, J.
The five Kinship volumes--Planet, Place, Partners, Persons, Practice--offer essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of solidarity, highlighting the interdependence that exists between humans and nonhuman beings.
Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a lively series that explores our deep interconnections with the living world.
From the bacterium swimming in your belly to the trees exhaling the breath you breathe, this community of life is our kin--and, for many cultures around the world, being human is based upon this extended sense of kinship.
We share these ties that bind with our fellow humans--and we share these Relations with nonhuman beings as well.
Volume 1 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of planetary Relations What are the sources of our deepest evolutionary and planetary connections, and of our profound longing for kinship? We live in an astounding World of relations
