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Dr. Stibbe’s book, The Stories We Live By, and free online course are full of real-life examples: of economics textbooks that describe people as “consumers” who are driven by an insatiable need to buy; the government documents that position cows and horses as “units” as though they are as lifeless as a kitchen cupboard; and the United Nations’
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Indigenous languages around the world are more than communication systems; they carry cultural identity, ecological knowledge, and unique ways of relating to the world (Lijphart, 1979; Kimmerer, 2014). Many encode perspectives on nature that have developed through generations of lived experience and continue to shape how communities interact with
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