Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations, Vol. 2 - Place

Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations explores our deep interconnections with the living world, with Volume 2 focusing on place-based relations and the revitalization of kinship with place-based beings, systems, and communities. The series features essays, interviews, poetry, and stories of solidarity, highlighting the interdependence between humans and nonhuman beings. Proceeds from sales benefit the Center for Humans and Nature, which partners with experts to explore human responsibilities to each other and the more-than-human world for a resilient future.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 204 pages
Publication date: 18 November 2021
Publisher: Center for Humans and Nature

The 5-Volume Set 2022 Nautilus Book Award Gold Medal Winner: Ecology & Environment and Special Honors as Best of Anthology Volume 2 of the Kinship series revolves around the question of place-based relations: To what extent does crafting a deeper connection with the Earth's bioregions reinvigorate a sense of kinship with the place-based beings, systems, and communities that mutually shape one another?

We live in an astounding world of relations. We share these ties that bind with our fellow humans—and we share these relations with nonhuman beings as well. 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.

Kinship: Belonging in a World of Relations is a lively series that explores our deep interconnections with the living world. The 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. More than 70 contributors—including Robin Wall Kimmerer, Richard Powers, David Abram, J. 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.

Given the place-based circumstances of human evolution and culture, global consciousness may be too broad a scale of care. "Place," Volume 2 of the Kinship series, addresses the bioregional, multispecies communities and landscapes within which we dwell. The essayists and poets in this volume take us around the world to a variety of distinctive places—from ethnobiologist Gary Paul.

Weight: 270g
Dimension: 134 x 196 x 15 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781736862513