Contested Terrain - Future Observatory Journal
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Contested Terrain - Future Observatory Journal
According to Berg and Dasmann, bioregions were the scale at which human communities could exist sustainably and to achieve this bioregional livelihood required a process of ‘reinhabitation’. Reinhabitation involves learning to
live-in-place in an area that has been disrupted and injured through past exploitation. It involves becoming native to a pla... See more
live-in-place in an area that has been disrupted and injured through past exploitation. It involves becoming native to a pla... See more
Contested Terrain - Future Observatory Journal
Peter Berg and Raymond Dasmann ‘Reinhabiting California’ in Cheryll Glotfelty and Eve Quesnel (Eds.), The Biosphere and the Bioregion: Essential Writings of Peter Berg. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
there is a pragmatic motivation for the more-than-local, smaller-than-global scale of the bioregion. It offers a scale at which tangible impacts of action can be felt; a sphere of influence and responsibility that one can connect to, and a closeness that can be the basis for love, care and stewardship. In this confluence of ideas relating to place ... See more
Contested Terrain - Future Observatory Journal
[Bioregion] refers both to a geographical terrain and a terrain of consciousness to a place and the ideas that have developed about how to live in that place.
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Contested Terrain - Future Observatory Journal
Peter Berg and Raymond Dasmann ‘Reinhabiting California’ in Cheryll Glotfelty and Eve Quesnel (Eds.), The Biosphere and the Bioregion: Essential Writings of Peter Berg. London; New York: Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.
Bioregioning: from verb to ‘bioregion’; act of bringing your bioregion into existence through: grounding, connecting, celebrating, belonging.
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Tyler, E. (n.d.) About bioregioning. Bioregioning. [online]. Source
We cannot save the world, we can only save places. The regeneration of planetary health can only happen ecosystem by ecosystem or bioregion by bioregio n
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Daniel Christian Wahl, ‘Reinhabitation: Body, Place, Bioregion’, 27 December 2020. Source
It is easy to love the beautiful places that we might live, and to ignore the other, less beautiful and unknown places that support our livelihoods.
The second was a critique of the lack of attention given in bioregional thought to the many places that support our lives. Critical analyses of power in the ecological and environmental crises have chal... See more
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Val Plumwood, Shadow Places and the Politics of Dwelling. Australian Humanities Review 44: 139–150, 2008.
It was in this context that thinkers like Peter Berg, Raymond Dasmann and Kirkpatrick Sale imagined different ways to inhabit the earth. Their offering was the bioregion: regions defined by natural borders rather than political boundaries. These could be defined by any natural characteristic delineating one place from another. The Planet Drum Found... See more
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The Planet Drum Foundation. (no date) About the Planet Drum Foundation. The Planet Drum Foundation. [online]. Source