Connection with nature as an oxymoron

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00958964.2016.1139534#abstract

The idea of connection also implies that we have nothing to connect to (nature), we are just…

The idea of connection also implies that we have nothing to connect to, we are just a part of it (nature).

Connection with nature as an oxymoron

3 exclusive definitions of “nature” as a social construct

1. nature as an entity in the world excluding humans

2. nature as an entity including humans

3. nature as not an entity but rather a culturally specific conceptual construction.

Connection with nature as an oxymoron

Demand for a greater connection with nature is framed and alternative means of conceptualizing …. relations that a political ecology perspective affords.

Demand for a greater connection with nature is framed and alternative means of conceptualizing human-nonhuman relations that a political ecology perspective affords.

Connection with nature as an oxymoron

Use of language and the idea of humans and nonhumans

Instead of treating “humans” and “nature” as two completely separate things, we should see how humans and nonhumans are interconnected.

—> We still depend on the nonhuman world, which we need to reconnect to (to reality).