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Article
Abstract
This paper explores the possibility that a participatory engagement with the literature of the bioregion, in this case the North Atlantic coast, may work against the life alienating tendencies of our modern culture, to reaffirm and renew our children’s consciousness of and sensitivity for their place in a larger Earth community. We are in need of another way of knowing our place, a way to activate and reactivate the complex articulations and relations of things. Through the literature of the bioregion and a bodily, imaginative and participatory engagement with the other-than-human, children can return to the conditions of human embeddedness in the world.
Recommended Citation
Howard, Patrick "Nurturing Sense of Place Through the Literature of the Bioregion." Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture, vol. 5, no. 3, 2025, pp. 1–19.https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/reconstruction/vol5/iss3/4
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