David Abram on Our Relational Planet

Video via https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHBa8i2bt9k

A wonderful conversation on the living relational earth.

Description

This is the third video of a series of #vlogs on the Open Access title 'Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing', by Sam Mickey, Mary Evelyn Tucker, and John Grim (eds.).

In this episode, Mary Evelyn Tucker (ed.) interviews David Abram, author of Chapter 1: 'Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet: Some Reflections' .

About the book:

'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 a study on the significance of the birdsong of the huia (an extinct species of New Zealand wattlebird) for the Māori people, and its commodification and extinction in the aftermath of colonialism; to a study on the promotion of ecological learning through network thinking, as evinced in a range of examples that portray the basic patterns of networks – the neurological network of a brain, the mycelial network of a fungus, the Internet, and the transportation system of global society."