Copyright

Willis Jenkins

Published On

2020-05-07

Page Range

pp. 141-152

Language

  • English

Print Length

11 pages

12. Listening for Coastal Futures

The Conservatory Project

  • Willis Jenkins (author)
Chapter of: Living Earth Community: Multiple Ways of Being and Knowing (pp. 141–152)

This chapter attends to the role of listening in attuning humans to the natural world, specifically in light of a project involving Long-Term Ecological Research oriented around conserving coastal ecosystems. The Conservatory Project integrates perspectives on environmental change from sciences, humanities, and the arts, designing eco-acoustic listening exercises that afford participants an aural sense of their embodiment and embeddedness in a dynamic environment. Listening can facilitate a contemplative awareness that is conducive to non-anthropocentric ways of being in the world.

Contributors

Willis Jenkins

(author)
Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment at University of Virginia

Willis Jenkins lives in the Rivanna River watershed, Virginia, where he works as Professor of Religion, Ethics, and Environment at the University of Virginia. With Matthew Burtner, Jenkins leads the Coastal Futures Conservatory, a transdisciplinary initiative focused on listening to environmental change using different ways of knowing drawn from the arts, humanities, and sciences. With Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, he is co-editor of the Routledge Handbook of Religion and Ecology (2016). He is author of two award-winning books: Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology (2008), which won a Templeton Award for Theological Promise, and The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice, and Religious Creativity (2013), which won an American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion.