Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing
Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim (eds)
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Living Earth Community is a gift to the bewildered world. It asks the most urgent and crucial question of our time: what worldview will supplant the materialist, dualist, narcissist paradigm that has led the world to the edge of devastation? This book seeks answers from wise and creative thinkers who find remarkable new ideas in the confluence of ecological, religious, and Indigenous traditions. If you are looking for reasons to believe that humans can find a way through the unfolding catastrophe, this is your book, your hope, your answer.
Kathleen Dean Moore, author of Great Tide Rising: Toward Clarity and Moral Courage in a Time of Planetary Change
So why are we in such a predicament? The contributors to Living Earth Community trace our discontents to a kind of cultural amnesia. In our rush to progress we forgot deeper sources of wisdom and with it the calm awareness that humankind is a part of the larger community of life in the unfolding cosmic story. We've been looking for meaning, as it were, in all the wrong places. It is both much simpler yet far more grand than we've imagined. From varied perspectives, the essays here shed the bright light of remembrance and reverence.
David Orr, author of Hope is an Imperative, Down to the Wire, and Ecological Literacy
In the modern industrial period we have lost our sense of resonant relationships with Earth’s ecosystems and species. This book revitalizes those relationships and reawakens the desire to participate in the fecundity of Earth’s creative processes. As such it is an invaluable contribution to our way forward.
Brian Thomas Swimme, co-author of Journey of the Universe
This book makes essential connections for understanding how humans may interact with all of life on Earth, especially in the face of rapid global climate change.
J. B. Richardson III, emeritus, University of Pittsburgh, CHOICE connect, April 2021 Vol. 58 No. 8
Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing is a celebration of the diversity of ways in which humans can relate to the world around them, and an invitation to its readers to partake in planetary coexistence. Innovative, informative, and highly accessible, this interdisciplinary anthology of essays brings together scholars, writers and educators across the sciences and humanities, in a collaborative effort to illuminate the different ways of being in the world and the different kinds of knowledge they entail – from the ecological knowledge of Indigenous communities, to the scientific knowledge of a biologist and the embodied knowledge communicated through storytelling.
This anthology examines the interplay between Nature and Culture in the setting of our current age of ecological crisis, stressing the importance of addressing these ecological crises occurring around the planet through multiple perspectives. These perspectives are exemplified through diverse case studies – from the political and ethical implications of thinking with forests, to the capacity of storytelling to motivate action, to the worldview of the Indigenous Okanagan community in British Columbia.
Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing synthesizes insights from across a range of academic fields, and highlights the potential for synergy between disciplinary approaches and inquiries. This anthology is essential reading not only for researchers and students, but for anyone interested in the ways in which humans interact with the community of life on Earth, especially during this current period of environmental emergency.
You can find more information on this book on the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology.
Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing
Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim (eds) | May 2020
Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim (eds) | May 2020
286 pp. | 9 colour illustrations | 6.14" x 9.21" (234 x 156 mm)
ISBN Paperback: 9781783748037
ISBN Hardback: 9781783748044
ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781783748051
ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 9781783748068
ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 9781783748075
ISBN Hardback: 9781783748044
ISBN Digital (PDF): 9781783748051
ISBN Digital ebook (epub): 9781783748068
ISBN Digital ebook (mobi): 9781783748075
ISBN Digital (XML): 9781783748082
DOI:10.11647/OBP.0186
Categories: BIC: RN (The environment), RNT (Social impact of environmental issues), RNA (Environmentalist thought and ideology), J (Society and social sciences), PSAF (Ecological science, the Biosphere); BISAC: SCI019000 (SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General), SCI026000 (SCIENCE / Environmental Science), SCI042000 (SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology), SOC026040 (SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory); OCLC Number: 1155880239.
Living Earth Community
Contents
Acknowledgmentsix
Notes on the Contributorsxiii
Prefacexxvii
Sam Mickey
Introduction: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Valuing Nature
1 John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker
SECTION I: PRESENCES IN THE MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLD 9
1. Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet: Some Reflections
11 David Abram
2. Learning a Dead Birdsong: Hopes’ echoEscape.1 in ‘The Place Where You Go to Listen’
19 Julianne Lutz Warren
3. Humilities, Animalities, and Self-Actualizations in a Living Earth Community
19 Paul Waldau
SECTION II: THINKING IN LATIN AMERICAN FORESTS 53
4. Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy: Toward an Ecological Ethics for Times of Environmental Fragmentation
55 Eduardo Kohn
5. Reanimating the World: Amazonian Shamanism
67 Frédérique Apffel-Marglin
6. The Obligations of a Biologist and Eden No More
75 Thomas E. Lovejoy
SECTION III: PRACTICES FROM CONTEMPORARY ASIAN TRADITIONS AND ECOLOGY 83
7. Fluid Histories: Oceans as Metaphor and the Nature of History
85 Prasenjit Duara
8. Affectual Insight: Love as a Way of Being and Knowing
101 David L. Haberman
9. Confucian Cosmology and Ecological Ethics: Qi, Li, and the Role of the Human
109 Mary Evelyn Tucker
SECTION IV: STORYTELLING: BLENDING ECOLOGY AND HUMANITIES
121
Categories: BIC: RN (The environment), RNT (Social impact of environmental issues), RNA (Environmentalist thought and ideology), J (Society and social sciences), PSAF (Ecological science, the Biosphere); BISAC: SCI019000 (SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / General), SCI026000 (SCIENCE / Environmental Science), SCI042000 (SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology), SOC026040 (SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory); OCLC Number: 1155880239.
Living Earth Community
Contents
Acknowledgmentsix
Notes on the Contributorsxiii
Prefacexxvii
Sam Mickey
Introduction: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Valuing Nature
1 John Grim and Mary Evelyn Tucker
SECTION I: PRESENCES IN THE MORE-THAN-HUMAN WORLD 9
1. Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet: Some Reflections
11 David Abram
2. Learning a Dead Birdsong: Hopes’ echoEscape.1 in ‘The Place Where You Go to Listen’
19 Julianne Lutz Warren
3. Humilities, Animalities, and Self-Actualizations in a Living Earth Community
19 Paul Waldau
SECTION II: THINKING IN LATIN AMERICAN FORESTS 53
4. Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy: Toward an Ecological Ethics for Times of Environmental Fragmentation
55 Eduardo Kohn
5. Reanimating the World: Amazonian Shamanism
67 Frédérique Apffel-Marglin
6. The Obligations of a Biologist and Eden No More
75 Thomas E. Lovejoy
SECTION III: PRACTICES FROM CONTEMPORARY ASIAN TRADITIONS AND ECOLOGY 83
7. Fluid Histories: Oceans as Metaphor and the Nature of History
85 Prasenjit Duara
8. Affectual Insight: Love as a Way of Being and Knowing
101 David L. Haberman
9. Confucian Cosmology and Ecological Ethics: Qi, Li, and the Role of the Human
109 Mary Evelyn Tucker
SECTION IV: STORYTELLING: BLENDING ECOLOGY AND HUMANITIES
121
10. Contemplative Studies of the ‘Natural’ World
123 David Haskell
11. Science, Storytelling, and Students: The National Geographic Society’s On Campus Initiative
133 Timothy Brown
12. Listening for Coastal Futures: The Conservatory Project
141 Willis Jenkins
13. Imaginal Ecology
153 Brooke Williams
SECTION V: RELATIONSHIPS OF RESILIENCE WITHIN INDIGENOUS LANDS
161
14. An Okanogan Worldview of Society
163 Jeannette Armstrong
15. Indigenous Language Resurgence and the Living Earth Community
171 Mark Turin
16. Sensing, Minding, and Creating
185 John Grim
17. Land, Indigeneity, and Hybrid Ontologies
193 Paul Berne Burow, Samara Brock, and Michael R. Dove
SECTION VI: THE WEAVE OF EARTH AND COSMOS
203
18. Gaia and a Second Axial Age
205 Sean Kelly
19. The Human Quest to Live in a Cosmos
217 Heather Eaton
20. Learning to Weave Earth and Cosmos
229 Mitchell Thomashow
List of Illustrations
235
Index
237
Fig. A1 Garden Aerial. Oak Springs Garden Foundation House, Upperville, Virgina. Photograph by Max Smith (2018), CC BY.
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123 David Haskell
11. Science, Storytelling, and Students: The National Geographic Society’s On Campus Initiative
133 Timothy Brown
12. Listening for Coastal Futures: The Conservatory Project
141 Willis Jenkins
13. Imaginal Ecology
153 Brooke Williams
SECTION V: RELATIONSHIPS OF RESILIENCE WITHIN INDIGENOUS LANDS
161
14. An Okanogan Worldview of Society
163 Jeannette Armstrong
15. Indigenous Language Resurgence and the Living Earth Community
171 Mark Turin
16. Sensing, Minding, and Creating
185 John Grim
17. Land, Indigeneity, and Hybrid Ontologies
193 Paul Berne Burow, Samara Brock, and Michael R. Dove
SECTION VI: THE WEAVE OF EARTH AND COSMOS
203
18. Gaia and a Second Axial Age
205 Sean Kelly
19. The Human Quest to Live in a Cosmos
217 Heather Eaton
20. Learning to Weave Earth and Cosmos
229 Mitchell Thomashow
List of Illustrations
235
Index
237
Fig. A1 Garden Aerial. Oak Springs Garden Foundation House, Upperville, Virgina. Photograph by Max Smith (2018), CC BY.
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