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Inhabited - Wildness and the Vitality of the Land (Hardcover)
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Inhabited - Wildness and the Vitality of the Land (Hardcover)
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People are key elements of wild places. At the same time, human
entanglements with wild ecologies involve extractivism, the growth
of resource-based economies, and imperial-colonial expansion,
activities that are wreaking havoc on our planet. Through an
ethnographic exploration of Canada's ten UNESCO Natural World
Heritage sites, Inhabited reflects on the meanings of wildness,
wilderness, and natural heritage. As we are introduced to local
inhabitants and their perspectives, Phillip Vannini and April
Vannini ask us to reflect on the colonial and dualist assumptions
behind the received meaning of wild, challenging us to reimagine
wildness as relational and rooted in vitality. Over the three years
they spent in and around these sites, they learned from Indigenous
and non-Indigenous peoples about their entanglements with each
other and with non-human animals, rocks, plants, trees, sky, water,
and spirits. The stories, actions, and experiences they encountered
challenge conventional narratives of wild places as uninhabited by
people and disconnected from culture and society. While it might be
tempting to dismiss the idea of wildness as outdated in the
Anthropocene era, Inhabited suggests that rethinking wildness
offers a better - if messier - way forward. Part geography and
anthropology, part environmental and cultural studies, and part
politics and ecology, Inhabited balances a genuine love of nature's
vitality with a culturally responsible understanding of its
interconnectedness with more-than-human ways of life.
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