{"product_id":"the-nature-of-home-greta-gaard-9780816525768","title":"The Nature of Home: Taking Root in a Place","description":"\"As long as humans have been around, we've had to move in order to survive.\" So arises that most universal and elemental human longing for home, and so begins Greta Gaard's exploration of just precisely what it means to be at home in the world. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Gaard journeys through the deserts of southern California, through the High Sierras, the Wind River Mountains, and the Northern Cascades, through the wildlands and waterways of Washington and Minnesota, through snow season, rain season, mud season, and lilac season, yet her essays transcend mere description of natural beauty to investigate the interplay between place and identity. Gaard examines the earliest environments of childhood and the relocations of adulthood, expanding the feminist insight that identity is formed through relationships to include relationships to place. \"Home\" becomes not a static noun, but an active verb: the process of cultivating the connections with place and people that shape who we become. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Striving to create a sense of home, Gaard involves herself socially, culturally, and ecologically within her communities, discovering that as she works to change her environment, her environment changes her. As Gaard investigates environmental concerns such as water quality, oil spills, or logging, she touches on their parallels to community issues such as racism, classism, and sexism, uncovering the dynamic interaction by which \"humans, like other life on earth, both shape and are shaped by our environments.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While maintaining an understanding of the complex systems and structures that govern communities and environments, Gaard's writing delves deeper to reveal the experiences and realities we displace through euphemisms or stereotypes, presenting issues such as homelessness or hunger with compelling honesty and sensitivity. Gaard's essays form a quest narrative, expressing the process of letting go that is an inherent part of an impermanent life. And when a person is broken, in the aftermath of that letting go, it is a place that holds the pieces together. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As long as we are forced to move--by economics, by war, by colonialism--the strategies we possess to make and redefine home are imperative to our survival, and vital in the shaping of our very identities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Greta Gaard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0816525765\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780816525768\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Arizona Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2007\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.67lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.32w x 0.57d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/15\/2007 pg. 11","brand":"Greta Gaard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46383872639231,"sku":"9780816525768","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_8a050643-8c36-4b47-972a-282fd28f530c.jpg?v=1733281926","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-nature-of-home-greta-gaard-9780816525768","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}