Making Nature Social

Towards a Relationship with Nature

Rembrandt Zegers

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Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
15 June 2024

Applied ecology; Complementary therapies, healing & health; The natural world, country life & pets

Series: Environment and Society

As the global climate crisis and biodiversity loss deepen their impact and gain pace, Making Nature Social: Towards a Relationship with Nature provides core insights into what it means to understand our relationship to nature. This relationship is illustrated through interviews with people working in different nature practices, including engaging with nature, non-human animals, place, advocacy, and with work organization values. Rembrandt Zegers argues that since non-humans do not use human language, meaning is conducted through the senses, giving rise to a knowing that manifests itself through the body first before finding its way socially in human language. Through these senses the relation to non-human others and nature can become a conversation; in other words, a relationship built on reciprocity. The book illustrates how these meanings occur and how these conversations happen, how crucial they are, and how they are connected. It dives deep into the essence of the lived experience of our relationship to nature and in doing so acknowledges how important the lived experience is for the purpose of a relationship with nature.

By: Rembrandt Zegers
Imprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 238mm, Width: 160mm, Spine: 22mm
Weight: 522g
ISBN: 9781666958812
ISBN 10: 1666958816
Series: Environment and Society
Pages: 214
Publication Date: 15 June 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Table of Contents Introduction Reading Guidelines and Definitions Part One: Knowing and Meaning Chapter 1: How Do We Know About Nature? Part Two: Nature Practices Chapter 2: Engaging with Nature Chapter 3: Engaging with Non-human Animals Chapter 4: Engaging with Place Chapter 5: Engaging in Advocacy for Nature Chapter 6: Engaging in Work Organization Values Part Three: Findings Chapter 7: Lived Experience Shifts Meaning of Nature Chapter 8: Nature as Relation Part Four: Cultural Assumptions Chapter 9: Navigating in the Culture Nature Split Chapter 10: Rethinking the Psyche Chapter 11: Towards a Relational Ecocentric Ethics Chapter 12: Relational Contemplation, The Body, and Nature Part Five: Looking Ahead Chapter 13: Lived Experience Claiming Its Place Chapter 14: Things are Moving Further Reading Afterword References About the Author

Rembrandt Zegers received a PhD from the University of the West of England with the psychosocial research group on the topic of leaders of nature practices and their relation to nature.

Reviews for Making Nature Social: Towards a Relationship with Nature

Bringing a rich literature spanning from ecological ethics to phenomenology and psychoanalysis to bear on conversations with people who try, in different ways, to (re)connect with the natural world our culture is busy disconnecting us from, this book by Rembrandt Zegers is a supurb synthesis of theory and practice. --Arne Johan Vetlesen, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo, author of Animal Lives and Why They Matter This book challenges conventional Western epistemology (objectivism, secularism, and scientific materialism) and invites the reader to a new enchantment --a new emphatic relation-- between humans and Nature. --Juan Gustavo Hernandez, Cross Cultural Bridges Food for thought with lively conversations about nature experiences. The book addresses the importance of nature relating experiences and the need of thinking and observing through the body. --Susan Boonman-Berson, Bear at Work