Overview

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.

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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

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

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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.

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