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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 2 - Place (Paperback)
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Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 2 - Place (Paperback)
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*Part of the 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal
Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of
Anthology 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. We share these ties that bind with our fellow humans-and
we share these relations with nonhuman beings as well. 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. Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a
lively series that explores our deep interconnections with the
living world. 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. More than 70 contributors-including
Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Powers, David Abram, J. 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. Given the place-based
circumstances of human evolution and culture, global consciousness
may be too broad a scale of care. "Place," Volume 2 of the Kinship
series, addresses the bioregional, multispecies communities and
landscapes within which we dwell. 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 Maria
Madera's "vibrant flow of kinship" in the equatorial Andes
expressed in Pacha Mama's constitutional rights in Ecuador. 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. 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.
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.
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