{"id":181,"date":"2014-12-07T16:56:01","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T00:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/desis.ecuad.ca\/?p=181"},"modified":"2025-05-23T22:41:59","modified_gmt":"2025-05-23T22:41:59","slug":"who-is-social","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/desis\/2014\/12\/07\/who-is-social\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Social?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"http:\/\/desis.ecuad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/who-is-social.3.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/desis.ecuad.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/who-is-social.3-620x321.jpg\" alt=\"who is social.3\" class=\"wp-image-182\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b><i>Who is Social?<\/i><\/b> &nbsp;Dialogues in a more-than-human world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This DESIS initiative researches how social innovation can encompass more than humans. <em>&#8220;Who is Social?&#8221;<\/em> is rooted in the understanding that survival on this living, breathing planet is contingent on embracing our relationship with the entirety of the living and non-living world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>\u2018Who is Social\u2019<\/i> brings people into conversation with sentient and non-sentient beings. Animist theory suggests that this conversation is not verbal; it is an embodied communication, situated in haptic, intuitive, sensuous physical space <sup>1<\/sup>. Dialogues in a more-than-human world build capacities for multi-modal, embodied understandings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earth-centered religions, aboriginal wisdom, animism, deep ecology, gaia theory, and physics affirm that the earth is alive and always evolving. Many indigenous cultures respect wisdom across a spectrum of granite, cedar and fox. Buddhist religions also acknowledge the life force of sentient and non-sentient beings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over recent centuries in contemporary Western society, the relationship between humans and the more-than-human world has ruptured <sup>2<\/sup>; this has fostered the growth of belief systems that permit damage to ecosystems that formerly sustained a diversity of life forms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><i>\u2018Who is Social\u2019<\/i> seeks to re-engage people with natural world; what does social innovation look like if we engage with the entirety of the ecosphere?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. Abram, David. 2010. <i>Becoming Animal: An Earthly Cosmology<\/i>. 1st ed. New York: Pantheon Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Worthy, Kenneth. 2013. <i>Invisible Nature: Healing the Destructive Divide between People and the Environment<\/i>. Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who is Social? &nbsp;Dialogues in a more-than-human world. This DESIS initiative researches how social innovation can encompass more than humans. &#8220;Who is Social?&#8221; is rooted in the understanding that survival on this living, breathing planet is contingent on embracing our relationship with the entirety of the living and non-living world. \u2018Who is Social\u2019 brings people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6],"tags":[55,67,54,62],"class_list":["post-181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-faculty","tag-human-nature-relationships","tag-more-than-human","tag-relationality","tag-who-is-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/desis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/desis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/desis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/desis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/desis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/desis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/desis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181\/revisions\/2699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/desis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/desis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/palette.ecuad.ca\/desis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}