Silence, Solitude and Nature
Stories of Connection
Silence, Solitude and Nature
Stories of Connection
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Description
This edited collection explores profound philosophical questions around silence, solitude and nature through a primarily autoenthnographic and, at times deeply personal, lens, with contributions from scholars across the disciplines.
Is true silence even possible? Is solitude always negative, or can it be deeply fulfilling? Have we silenced nature, or have we simply forgotten how to listen? While we may believe we understand these words-silence as the absence of sound, solitude as being alone, and nature as non-human life-a closer examination reveals that their meanings are far more nuanced and culturally contingent.
The essays collected here all begin with phenomenological accounts of sensing-silence, solitude, and the natural world-using sustained attention to matters of perception as a means to interrogate how these are commonly valued and conceptualized. Starting their enquiries with individual experiences of silence, solitude and nature, the authors mark the difference between situated, personal encounters and the way in which these emotional and environmental states and situations are habitually represented and discussed, opening up new avenues for understanding these terms. Authors grapple with the isolation imposed by the Covid epidemic; the death of loved ones; the sensory pleasures of engagement with nature; their sense of self in isolation from the noise and distractions of the modern world; the practical connections between the natural world and their work as educators.
The writing here prompts personal reflection, philosophical re-evaluation of the human and the more-than-human other, as well as suggesting new ways for understanding education, learning and writing practices.
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Table of Contents
Introduction
Silence, Solitude and Nature: Ways of Being, Ways of Living, Dat Bao, Jill Brown, Eva Alerby and Gunnar Jonsson
Part I: Intimate Connection between Self and the Natural World
1 The Intersection of Walking, Silence and Memory, David Purnell
2. Silent Spaces; A Personal reflection on Loneliness, Solitude and Nature during Melbourne”s Covid Lockdowns, Sayaka Saito
Part II: Temporal Connection between Past and Present in the Natural World
3 Outdoor Heritage tourism and Scotland's Highland Clearances Sites: Listening in Silence to the Voices of the Past, Phiona Stanley
4 Alone, Not Lonely: Life in Country Australia, Jill Brown
Part III: Life, Death and Existential Connection with the Natural World
5 The Changing Sounds of Silence, Novi Restuningrum
6 Varieties of Silence, Ken Cruikshank
Part VI: FormativeConnection between Education and the Natural World
7 “May I help Plan?”: Students' Bodily and Silent Relationship to Vegetable Cultivation, Eva Alerby and Gunnar Jonsson
8 Embracing Silence and Nature: Cultivating Creativity in Poetry Writing, Dat Bao
Part V: Solitude and OntologicalConnection with the Natural World
9 The Echo of Water: Silence and Solitude in the Natural World, Jorunn Elidottir
10 Exploring Loneliness and the Other as More-Than-Human: When a Pine Tree becomes a Good Friend, Eva Alerby and Åsa Engström
Part VI: Kinship and Expressive Connection with the Natural World
11 Embodied Tribute: Multi-species Wisdom in a Time of Forgetting, Lena Redman
12 Listening to Nature, Learning from Earth Kin, Monty Nixon and Andrew Skeoch
Conclusion: Relational Ways of Being and Living with Silence, Dat Bao, Jill Brown, Eva Alerby and Gunnar Jonsson
Product details
| Published | Apr 15 2027 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 256 |
| ISBN | 9781350596733 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 10 bw illus |
| Series | Bloomsbury Solitude Studies |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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