Rather than owning nature, we are urged to think about our kinship with all that is nonhuman. Through stories, essays, art, poetry, and more, contributors chip away at the layers that bind our collective colonial ethos. These paradigms have driven mainstream environmental movements to engage in myopic efforts that at times have exacerbated ecological imbalances.
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"The Kinship series upends colonial paradigms around humans and our relationship with more-than-human nature. John serves as a Fellow and Senior Scholar for the Center for Humans and Nature. John Hausdoerffer,, is author of Catlin’s Lament: Indians, Manifest Destiny, and the Ethics of Nature as well as co-author and co-editor of Wildness: Relations of People and Place and What Kind of Ancestor Do You Want to Be? John is the Dean of the School of Environment & Sustainability at Western Colorado University and co-founder of Coldharbour Institute, the Center for Mountain Transitions, and the Resilience Studies Consortium. She lives on an old farm in upstate New York, tending gardens domestic and wild.
As a writer and a scientist, her interests include not only restoration of ecological communities, but restoration of our relationships to land. Her writings include Gathering Moss and Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants. She is an enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation and a student of the plant nations. Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, botanist, writer, and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, New York, and the founding Director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
His writing is tangled up in the ongoing conversation between humans, our nonhuman kin, and the animate landscape. He is the co-editor (with John Hausdoerffer) of Wildness: Relations of People and Place, co-editor (with Dave Aftandilian) of City Creatures: Animal Encounters in the Chicago Wilderness, and the author of The Way of Coyote: Shared Journeys in the Urban Wilds. Gavin Van Horn is the Creative Director and Executive Editor for the Center for Humans and Nature. These diverse voices render a wide range of possibilities for becoming better kin.įrom the recognition of nonhumans as persons to the care of our kinfolk through language and action, Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a guide and companion into the ways we can deepen our care and respect for the family of plants, rivers, mountains, animals, and others who live with us in this exuberant, life-generating, planetary tangle of relations. 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. More than 70 contributors-including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Powers, David Abram, J. These 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. Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a lively series that explores our deep interconnections with the living world. 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.
We share these ties that bind with our fellow humans-and we share these relations with nonhuman beings as well. We live in an astounding world of relations.
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