Making Nature Social

Towards a Relationship with Nature

AvRembrandt Zegers

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

As the global climate crisis and biodiversity loss deepen their impact and gain pace, Making Nature Social: Towards a Relationship with Nature provides core insights into what it means to understand our relationship to nature. This relationship is illustrated through interviews with people working in different nature practices, including engaging with nature, non-human animals, place, advocacy, and with work organization values. Rembrandt Zegers argues that since non-humans do not use human language, meaning is conducted through the senses, giving rise to a knowing that manifests itself through the body first before finding its way socially in human language. Through these senses the relation to non-human others and nature can become a conversation; in other words, a relationship built on reciprocity. The book illustrates how these meanings occur and how these conversations happen, how crucial they are, and how they are connected. It dives deep into the essence of the lived experience of our relationship to nature and in doing so acknowledges how important the lived experience is for the purpose of a relationship with nature.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-06-15
Mått:160 x 238 x 22 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Environment and Society
Antal sidor:214
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9781666958812

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Mer om författaren

Rembrandt Zegers received a PhD from the University of the West of England with the psychosocial research group on the topic of leaders of nature practices and their relation to nature.

Recensioner i media

Food for thought with lively conversations about nature experiences. The book addresses the importance of nature relating experiences and the need of thinking and observing through the body.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsIntroductionReading Guidelines and DefinitionsPart One: Knowing and MeaningChapter 1: How Do We Know About Nature?Part Two: Nature PracticesChapter 2: Engaging with NatureChapter 3: Engaging with Non-human AnimalsChapter 4: Engaging with PlaceChapter 5: Engaging in Advocacy for NatureChapter 6: Engaging in Work Organization ValuesPart Three: FindingsChapter 7: Lived Experience Shifts Meaning of NatureChapter 8: Nature as RelationPart Four: Cultural AssumptionsChapter 9: Navigating in the Culture Nature SplitChapter 10: Rethinking the PsycheChapter 11: Towards a Relational Ecocentric EthicsChapter 12: Relational Contemplation, The Body, and NaturePart Five: Looking AheadChapter 13: Lived Experience Claiming Its PlaceChapter 14: Things are MovingFurther ReadingAfterwordReferencesAbout the Author