Abstract

Human history, including the study of history (i.e., historiography), overlaps with natural history, yet these histories do not operate at the same scales. The fragmentation of those histories contributes to ethical and political failures to address environmental issues. Providing an antidote to this fragmentation, this chapter thinks with the circulating waters of oceans to articulate the complex confluence of human and natural histories, with particular reference to Asian contexts.

Highlights

  • Ways of Knowing, Ways of Valuing NatureJohn Grim and Mary Evelyn TuckerThe contemporary market-driven worldview relies upon and legitimates rational, analytical ways of knowing, often to the exclusion of other ways of knowing

  • Sean Kelly, PhD, is professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). He is the author of Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era (2010), co-editor of The Variety of Integral Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Planetary Era (2017), and co-translator of Edgar Morin’s Homeland Earth: A Manifesto for the New Millennium (1999)

  • Rational choice is seen as that realm of common sense in which both the world and human demands on the world are laid out as commensurate, equal realities that confront decision-makers

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Notes on the Contributors

Dr David Abram, cultural ecologist and geophilosopher, is the author of The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and Language in a More-ThanHuman World (1996) and Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology (2010). Sean Kelly, PhD, is professor of Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) He is the author of Coming Home: The Birth and Transformation of the Planetary Era (2010), co-editor of The Variety of Integral Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Planetary Era (2017), and co-translator of Edgar Morin’s Homeland Earth: A Manifesto for the New Millennium (1999). Sam Mickey, PhD, is an Adjunct Professor in the Theology and Religious Studies department and the Environmental Studies program at the University of San Francisco He has worked for several years at the Forum on Religion and Ecology at Yale. Terry Tempest Williams, divide their time between Utah and Cambridge, MA

Introduction
Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet
Learning a Dead Birdsong
A Listener Plays
An Elephant in the Room
A Near-Term Task
A Longer-Term Task
Anthropology as Cosmic Diplomacy
Reanimating the World
The Obligations of a Biologist and Eden No More
Fluid Histories
In addition to my own The Crisis of Global Modernity
Affectual Insight
Confucian Cosmology and Ecological Ethics
SECTION IV: STORYTELLING
The Songs of Trees
12. Listening for Coastal Futures
13. Imaginal Ecology
14. An Okanagan Worldview of Society
15. Indigenous Language Resurgence and the Living Earth Community
18. Gaia and a Second Axial Age
19. The Human Quest to Live in a Cosmos1
Findings
20. Learning to Weave Earth and Cosmos
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