Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing - cover image

Copyright

Sam Mickey; Mary Evelyn Tucker; John Grim

Published On

2020-05-07

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-803-7
Hardback978-1-78374-804-4
PDF978-1-78374-805-1
HTML978-1-80064-598-1
XML978-1-78374-808-2
EPUB978-1-78374-806-8
MOBI978-1-78374-807-5

Language

  • English

Print Length

286 pages (xxxviii+248)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 20 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.78" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 24 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.94" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback1207g (42.58oz)
Hardback1597g (56.33oz)

Media

Illustrations9

OCLC Number

1155880239

LCCN

2020414140

BIC

  • RN
  • RNT
  • RNA
  • J
  • PSAF

BISAC

  • SCI019000
  • SCI026000
  • SCI042000
  • SOC026040

LCC

  • GF41
  • L577

Keywords

  • Earth
  • environment
  • scholars
  • ecosystems
  • ecological knowledge
  • scientific knowledge
  • ecological crisis

Living Earth Community

Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing

  • Sam Mickey (editor)
  • Mary Evelyn Tucker (editor)
  • John Grim (editor)
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.

Endorsements

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

Reviews

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 (0009-4978), vol. 58, no. 8, 2021.

Contents

1. Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet: Some Reflections

(pp. 11–18)
  • David Abram

2. Learning a Dead Birdsong: Hopes' echoEscape.1 in 'The Place Where You Go to Listen'

(pp. 19–40)
  • Julianne Lutz Warren

3. Humilities, Animalities, and Self-Actualizations in a Living Earth Community

(pp. 41–52)
  • Paul Waldau

4. Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy: Toward an Ecological Ethics for Times of Environmental Fragmentation

(pp. 55–66)
  • Eduardo Kohn

5. Reanimating the World: Amazonian Shamanism

(pp. 67–74)
  • Frédérique Apffel-Marglin

6. The Obligations of a Biologist and Eden No More

(pp. 75–82)
  • Thomas E. Lovejoy

7. Fluid Histories: Oceans as Metaphor and the Nature of History

(pp. 85–100)
  • Prasenjit Duara

8. Affectual Insight: Love as a Way of Being and Knowing

(pp. 101–108)
  • David L. Haberman

9. Confucian Cosmology and Ecological Ethics: Qi, Li, and the Role of the Human

(pp. 109–120)
  • Mary Evelyn Tucker

10. Contemplative Studies of the 'Natural' World

(pp. 123–132)
  • David Haskell

11. Science, Storytelling, and Students: The National Geographic Society's On Campus Initiative

(pp. 133–140)
  • Timothy Brown

12. Listening for Coastal Futures: The Conservatory Project

(pp. 141–152)
  • Willis Jenkins

13. Imaginal Ecology

(pp. 153–160)
  • Brooke Williams

14. An Okanagan Worldview of Society

(pp. 163–170)
  • Jeannette Armstrong

15. Indigenous Language Resurgence and the Living Earth Community

(pp. 171–184)
  • Mark Turin

16. Sensing, Minding, and Creating

(pp. 185–192)
  • John Grim

17. Unsettling the Land: Indigeneity, Ontology, and Hybridity

(pp. 193–202)
  • Paul Berne Burow
  • Samara Brock
  • Michael R. Dove

18. Gaia and a Second Axial Age

(pp. 205–216)
  • Sean Kelly

19. The Human Quest to Live in a Cosmos

(pp. 217–228)
  • Heather Eaton

20. Learning to Weave Earth and Cosmos

(pp. 229–234)
  • Mitchell Thomashow

Preface

(pp. xxvii–xxxviii)
  • Sam Mickey

Introduction: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Valuing Nature

(pp. 1–8)
  • John Grim
  • Mary Evelyn Tucker

Contributors

Sam Mickey

(editor)
Adjunct Professor in the Theology and Religious Studies department and the Environmental Studies at University of San Francisco

Mary Evelyn Tucker

(editor)
Co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University

John Grim

(editor)
Senior Lecturer and Research Scholar at Yale University
Co-director of the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale University