John Hausdoerffer: Podcast Interviews

John Hausdoerffer, PhD

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Philosopher, Author

3 Interviews

John Hausdoerffer's Interviews

Kamea Chayne & John Hausdoerffer • 25 Jan 2022 • EN

341) John Hausdoerffer: Re-embodying our roles as placelings

What does it mean to understand our roles not as Earthlings but as “Placelings”? And as we deepen into the work of collective healing, what underlies the invitation to reframe the preservation of "wildness” into a re-establishment of “kinship”? John Hausdoerffer, Ph.D., is an author and teacher from Crested Butte, Colo

Yakir Englander & John Hausdoerffer + Gavin Van Horn • 16 Jun 2021 • EN

Gavin Van Horn and John Hausdoerffer, "Wildness: Relations of People and Place" (U Chicago Press, 2017)

Whether referring to a place, a nonhuman animal or plant, or a state of mind, wild indicates autonomy and agency, a unique expression of life. Yet two contrasting ideas about wild nature permeate contemporary discussions: either that nature is most wild in the absence of a defiling human presence, or that nature is com