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Making Nature Social

Towards a Relationship with Nature

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Making Nature Social

Towards a Relationship with Nature

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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.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction
Reading Guidelines and Definitions

Part One: Knowing and Meaning

Chapter 1: How Do We Know About Nature?

Part Two: Nature Practices

Chapter 2: Engaging with Nature
Chapter 3: Engaging with Non-human Animals
Chapter 4: Engaging with Place
Chapter 5: Engaging in Advocacy for Nature
Chapter 6: Engaging in Work Organization Values

Part Three: Findings

Chapter 7: Lived Experience Shifts Meaning of Nature
Chapter 8: Nature as Relation

Part Four: Cultural Assumptions

Chapter 9: Navigating in the Culture Nature Split
Chapter 10: Rethinking the Psyche
Chapter 11: Towards a Relational Ecocentric Ethics
Chapter 12: Relational Contemplation, The Body, and Nature

Part Five: Looking Ahead
Chapter 13: Lived Experience Claiming Its Place
Chapter 14: Things are Moving

Further Reading
Afterword
References
About the Author

Product details

Published 15 Jun 2024
Format Ebook (Epub & Mobi)
Edition 1st
Extent 214
ISBN 9781666958829
Imprint Lexington Books
Series Environment and Society
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Rembrandt Zegers

Rembrandt Zegers received a PhD from the Universit…

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