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Making Nature Social: Towards a Relationship with Nature

Making Nature Social: Towards a Relationship with Nature

Zegers, Rembrandt

Hardcover

Series: Environment and Society

Environmental StudiesMental HealthNature Writing

ISBN10: 1666958816
ISBN13: 9781666958812
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: Jun 15 2024
Pages: 214
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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