Volume 2 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of place-based Relations To what extent does crafting a deeper connection with the Earth\'s bioregions reinvigorate a sense of kinship with the place-based beings, systems, and communities that mutually shape one another? We live in an astounding World of relations.
She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, ten.
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.
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.
As Chippewa scholar-activist Melissa Nelson observes about kinning with Place in her conversation with John Hausdoerffer: "Whether a desert mesa, a forested mountain, a windswept plain, or a crowded city--those places also participate in this serious play with raven cries, northern winds, car traffic, or coyote howls." This volume reveals the ways in which playing in, tending to, and caring for Place wraps us into a World of kinship.
The essayists and poets in this volume take us around the World to a variety of distinctive places--from ethnobiologist Gary Paul Nabhan\'s beloved and beleaguered sacred U.
S.-Mexico borderlands, to Pacific islander and poet Craig Santos Perez\'s ancestral shores, to writer Lisa María Madera\'s "vibrant flow of kinship" in the equatorial Andes expressed in Pacha Mama\'s constitutional rights in Ecuador. "Place," Volume 2 of the Kinship series, addresses the bioregional, multispecies communities and landscapes within which we dwell.
Given the place-based circumstances of human evolution and culture, global consciousness may be too broad a scale of care.
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 2 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of place-based Relations To what extent does crafting a deeper connection with the Earth\'s bioregions reinvigorate a sense of kinship with the place-based beings, systems, and communities that mutually shape one another? We live in an astounding World of relations
