RESURGENCE & ECOLOGIST

2 months ago | resurgence.org | Anna Souter

There is something both familiar and unfamiliar about the temporary building erected within the exhibition Wild at Manchester Museum. It is a re-imagining of a mia-mia, a form of round hut used by some Indigenous Australian peoples, including Noongar people within what is now south-western Australia. The Noongar people build their mia-mia with vegetation from the bush, and the team at Manchester Museum have similarly used local plant-based materials, chosen in collaboration with Noongar partners.

Oct 23, 2024 | resurgence.org | Adam Weymouth

One of the penalties of an ecological education”, wrote Aldo Leopold in 1949, “is that one lives alone in a world of wounds.” Never has this truth been more apparent to me than while reading Kate Bradbury’s One Garden Against the World. “Part memoir and part call to arms”, it charts a year in the life of Bradbury’s garden at her small Victorian terrace in Portslade-on-Sea, just outside of Brighton.

Oct 23, 2024 | resurgence.org | Edward Davey

‘Hope’ is the thing with feathers –That perches in the soul –And sings the tune without the words –And never stops – at all –– Emily Dickinson There is a wonderful scene in the 1997 film The English Patient where Captain Kip, a Sikh bomb disposal expert, takes Hana, a Canadian nurse, to an Italian baroque church, on the back of his motorbike. The two have recently fallen in love amid the desolation and brokenness of the concluding months of the second world war.

Oct 23, 2024 | resurgence.org | Rachel Marsh |Briony Hughes

Caleb Parkin’s poetry has the wonderful quality of showing us how magical the more-than-human world really is, and then playfully encourages us to re-evaluate our relationship within it. One way he does this is by switching pronouns, going from the individual ‘I’ to a more ecologically minded ‘we/us’. “For me,” he writes, “much ecopoetry relates to this tr/icky balance of being-with the nonhuman world.

Oct 23, 2024 | resurgence.org | Susan Clark |Yasmin Dahnoun |Jan Goodey |Beth Parkes

In this issue of Resurgence & Ecologist, we explore the meaning and experience of deep listening. The more we listen, the more we learn from the stories we hear back. We introduce the pioneering work of Pauline Oliveros who recorded the ambient sounds around her deep in a cave, and who coined the term ‘Deep Listening’ as a practice.