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The Nerves and Their Endings
Condition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781922310606 Author(s): Jessica Gaitan Johannesson Format: Paperback Language: English Year: 2022 Publisher: Scribe Publications Pages: 192
Description: The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress.In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitan Johannesson explores how we respond to crises.She draws parallels between an eating disorder and environmental neurosis, examines the perils of an activist movement built on non-parenthood, dissects the privilege of how we talk about hope, and more.The synapses that spark between these essays connect essential narratives of response and responsibility, community and choice, belonging and bodies. They carry vital signals.'The Nerves and Their Endings is a beautifully written, original collection of essays that explores identity, place, home, and hope. These essays ask how we might not only live in a time of climate collapse, but how we might work towards a better future also - one of community, shared understanding, and tenderness, even in the face of such terrible inequality, cruelty, loss, and disaster. This is a book that's truly necessary for our moment.'-Rebecca Tamas, author of Strangers- essays on the human and nonhuman'The Nerves and Their Endings is a deft, clear-eyed, and deeply felt essay collection that not only articulates the immense loss, complicity, and powerless felt in the capitalist West against the rising waters, but also the hope that enlivens good political writing always- the hope that when we look and think and move together - implicated, entangled - we grow the nerve to align in action. Jessica Gaitan Johannesson is a humane, original, and extremely talented writer, and this collection is a true pleasure to read and think with.'-Ellena Savage, author of Blueberries'Jessica Gaitan Johannesson 'stays with the trouble' of climate, environmental, an
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