For this Inclusive Ecology series seminar, in partnership with the NYUSH Reads program, Dr Rachel Sweeney will explore ecological entanglements and interspecies communication embedded in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s seminal work ‘Braiding Sweetgrass’. Reflecting on Indigenous ontologies and multispecies storytelling practices, this talk illustrates how Kimmerer’s inclusive ecology perspectives might inform a new kind of sensuous scholarship, proposing ecosophical and experiential writing approaches that offer an active citational kinship and that uphold a vision of co-creation and coexistence with an animate world.
This talk is dedicated to the late Stephan Harding, founder of Schumacher College, whose teaching and lifelong research exploring nature and ecosystems brought us closer to understanding Gaia theory and deepened our lived relationship to Time and Ecology.
