Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing

John Grim, Mary Evelyn Tucker, Sam Mickey

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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. 

 

Sujets

• Earth Sciences
• Earth science
• Sociology
• Scholarly method
• Ecological crisis
• Environment
• Ecosystem
• Earth

Informations

• Publié par: Open Book Publishers
• Date de parution: 18 mai 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783748068
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

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LIVING EARTH COMMUNITY
Living Earth Community
Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing
Edited by Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim
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Cover image: Feathers and Fins (2014) by Nancy Earle, all rights reserved.
Cover design: Anna Gatti.
Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Notes on the Contributors
xiii
Preface
xxvii
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.
Acknowledgments
This book, like every other book ever written, is dependent in many ways on the living, breathing Earth. As the editors of this book, we want to acknowledge the kinship, nourishment, shelter, companionship, and inspiration provided by the living Earth community. Without that figurative and quite literal support, this book would not exist. Along with gratitude for our planetary home, we gratefully acknowledge all of those who have been part of this book project directly or indirectly.
Many thanks are owed to each of the contributors for their thoughtful engagement in this collaborative project. It was a privilege and a pleasure to facilitate the gathering of such profoundly thoughtful, sensitive, and visionary people in person, and to incorporate their contributions into a single volume. This book is based on a unique workshop that took place at the Oak Spring Garden Foundation in Virginia in October of 2018.
In this beautiful setting, between delicious meals and walks on the grounds, the participants shared their creative ideas in a synergy that was deeply felt by all. From that beautiful Virginia land, cultivated for so many decades by Bunny and Paul Mellon, these ideas took different shapes and forms in lively dialogue. Old friendships were renewed, and new friendships were formed. The land wove us into itself and held us in a place of awe and wonder.
The workshop was organized by Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim along with Peter Crane, their former Dean at the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the current President of the Oak Spring Garden Foundation. As a paleobotanist, Peter has done remarkable work uncovering flower, plant, and seed fossils embedded in deep time. We were assisted at Oak Spring by Peter’s wife, Elinor Crane, and especially by the dedicated preparation of program officer, Marguerite Hardin. Max Smith, the head of communications, filmed the interviews that we are posting along with this book. The staff at Oak Spring deserve our gratitude for exquisite meals and care in so many ways.
Special thanks are owed to Alessandra Tosi, Laura Rodriguez, Adèle Kreager, Luca Baffa and all those at Open Book Publishers, whose commitments to rigorous scholarly standards, service to the public good, and open access publishing fit perfectly with the spirit of this project. Gratitude to Mark Turin for the introduction.
In turn, Mary Evelyn and John would like to acknowledge the assistance of Sam Mickey on this project. Sam has been responsible for bringing the manuscript into being after the workshop, and we are enormously grateful for this. Likewise, our long-term assistant, Tara Trapani, was indispensable in the organization of the workshop, to which she brought her remarkable attention to detail. We were delighted to have Susan O’Connor with us at Oak Spring, and we further wish to acknowledge the ongoing assistance of the Charles Engelhard Foundation for our work. Similarly, we thank Nancy Klavans and the Germeshausen Foundation for their steadfast support over many years. We are also grateful to Nancy Earle for her beautiful painting of Feathers and Fins for the cover of the book.
Sam would like to express deep appreciation for his students and colleagues at the University of San Francisco and the California Institute of Integral Studies. He is also grateful for his collaborations with the Yale Forum on Religion and Ecology as well as the Journey of the Universe project. He is thankful for friends and family, who have given encouragement and support far beyond what can be listed here. Finally, many thanks are owed to Kimberly Carfore for sharing her love, partnership, and practice of the wild.
On behalf of the editors and all the contributors, with gratitude for all our relations, this book is dedicated to the living memory of our ancestors and evolutionary pasts, and to the future flourishing of a vibrant Earth community.
Sam Mickey
Mary Evelyn Tucker
John Grim


F ig. A2 Morning Garden. Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Upperville, Virginia. Photograph by Max Smith (2018), CC BY.
Notes on the Contributors
David Abram
Dr. David Abram, cultural ecologist and geophilosopher, is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-