Human-Environment Relations Transformative Values in Theory and Prac
This fresh and innovative approach to human-environmental relations will revolutionise our understanding of the boundaries between ourselves and the environment we inhabit. The anthology is predicated on the notion that values shift back and forth between
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Emily Brady • Pauline Phemister Editors
Human-Environment Relations Transformative Values in Theory and Practice
Editors Dr. Emily Brady Institute of Geography School of Geosciences University of Edinburgh Drummond Street Edinburgh EH8 9XP UK [email protected]
Dr. Pauline Phemister School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences University of Edinburgh Dugald Stewart Building 3 Charles Street Edinburgh EH8 9AD UK [email protected]
ISBN 978-94-007-2824-0 e-ISBN 978-94-007-2825-7 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-2825-7 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2012931442 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Acknowledgements
We are grateful to the British Academy for funding the workshops on ‘Embodied Values’ from which this volume derives and to the Institute of Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the University of Edinburgh for hosting the workshops. We would also like to thank all those who took part in the workshops, including those whose contributions could not be included here, and especially Tom Bristow for his invaluable assistance throughout the project.
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Part I
Transformative Values in Theory
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The Value Space of Meaningful Relations ............................................ Alan Holland
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Relational Space and Places of Value .................................................... Pauline Phemister
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Conserving Nature’s Meanings .............................................................. Simon P. James
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Revaluing Body and Earth ..................................................................... Patrick Curry
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Hölderlin and Human-Nature Relations .............................................. Alison Stone
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Toward History and the Creaturely: Language and the Intertextual Literary Value Space in Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals...................... Tom Bristow
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The Intimacy of Art and Nature ............................................................ David E. Cooper
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Transformative Values in Practice
Embodying Climate Change: Renarrating Energy Through the Senses and the Spirit ........................................... Michael S. Northcott
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Make, Do, and Mend: Solving Placelessness Through Embodied Environmental Engagement ................................ 109 Isis Brook vii
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Art and Living Things: The Ethical, Aesthetic Impulse ..................... 121 Reiko Goto Collins and Timothy M. Collins
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The Embodiment of Nature: Fishing, Emotion,
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