Living earth community : multiple ways of being and knowing / edited by Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Ways of Knowing, Ways of Valuing Nature -- Ways of Knowing the World -- Section I: Presences in the More-Than-Human World -- 1. Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet: Some Reflections -- 2. Learning a Dead Birdsong: Hopes’ echoEscape.1 in ‘The Place Where You Go to Listen’ -- 3. Humilities, Animalities, and Self-Actualizations in a Living Earth Community -- Section II: Thinking in Latin American Forests -- 4. Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy: Toward an Ecological Ethics for Times of Environmental Fragmentation -- 5. Reanimating the World: Amazonian Shamanism -- 6. The Obligations of a Biologist and Eden No More -- Section III: Practices from Contemporary Asian Traditions and Ecology -- 7. Fluid Histories: Oceans as Metaphor and the Nature of History -- 8. Affectual Insight: Love as a Way of Being and Knowing -- 9. Confucian Cosmology and Ecological Ethics: Qi, Li, and the Role of the Human -- Section IV: Storytelling: Blending Ecology and Humanities -- 10. Contemplative Studies of the ‘Natural’ World -- 11. Science, Storytelling, and Students: The National Geographic Society’s On Campus Initiative -- 12. Listening for Coastal Futures: The Conservatory Project -- 13. Imaginal Ecology -- Section V: Relationships of Resilience within Indigenous Lands -- 14. An Okanagan Worldview of Society -- 15. Indigenous Language Resurgence and the Living Earth Community -- 16. Sensing, Minding, and Creating -- 17. Unsettling the Land: Indigeneity, Ontology, and Hybridity -- Section VI: The Weave of Earth and Cosmos -- 18. Gaia and a Second Axial Age -- 19. The Human Quest to Live in a Cosmos -- 20. Learning to Weave Earth and Cosmos

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.