Making Nature Social: Towards a Relationship with Nature

Making Nature Social explores the relationship between humans and nature, highlighting the importance of lived experience in understanding this connection. It suggests that non-human others communicate through senses, leading to a knowing that manifests itself through the body before finding its way socially in human language. Through conversations, relationships can be built on reciprocity, acknowledging the lived experience's significance for a meaningful relationship with nature.

Format: Hardback
Length: 214 pages
Publication date: 15 June 2024
Publisher: Lexington Books

Making Nature Social: Towards a Relationship with Nature offers valuable insights into understanding our connection to the natural world. Through interviews with individuals engaged in various nature-related practices, including engaging with nature, non-human animals, place, advocacy, and work organization values, the book explores the ways in which non-humans communicate and establish relationships. Rembrandt Zegers contends that since non-humans do not use human language, meaning is conveyed through the senses, leading to a form of knowledge that manifests itself through the body before being expressed socially in human language. This understanding of the relationship with non-human others and nature can be likened to a conversation, where reciprocity plays a central role. The book delves into the nature of these meanings, the dynamics of these conversations, their significance, and their interconnectedness. It emphasizes the importance of the lived experience in fostering a meaningful relationship with nature.

Dimension: 229 x 152 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781666958812