اشتیاق زمینی (ها): مقالات درباره محیط زیست عاطفی

The essays that follow reveal both the pervasiveness and the complexities of affective entanglements with ecology. Amongst other things they chart difficulties in recognising and owning up to even having such feelings, not to mention trying to give an account of them to others. Emotions seem deeply personal, the very core of our inner experience. And yet they arise through our exposure to the world and expose us to that world's patterning and its vagaries; they trouble as well as affirm our sense of self-identity. Emotions draw us out of our shells or make us withdraw, touch us, affect us, alienate or connect us. Perhaps we might even begin to think of this patterning of exposures, each to each other and to the environing world, as itself constituting a kind of communicative ecology.