Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress by Hanson, Ranae Lenor
Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress by Hanson, Ranae Lenor

Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress

A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on...
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Author: Ranae Lenor Hanson
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Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress by Hanson, Ranae Lenor

Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress

$52.70
Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress by Hanson, Ranae Lenor

Watershed: Attending to Body and Earth in Distress

$52.70
Author: Ranae Lenor Hanson
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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A personal health crisis, stories from environmental refugees, and our climate in danger prompt a meditation on intimate connections between the health of the body and the health of the ecosystem

The body of the earth, beset by a climate in crisis, experiences drought much like the human body experiences thirst, as Ranae Lenor Hanson's body did as a warning sign of the disease that would change her life: Type 1 diabetes. What if we tended to an ailing ecosystem just as Hanson learned to care for herself in the throes of a chronic medical condition. This is the possibility explored in a work that is at once a memoir of illness and health, a contemplation of the surrounding natural world in distress, and a reflection on the ways these come together in personal, local, and global opportunities for healing.

Beginning with memories from a childhood nurtured among the waters of Minnesota, Watershed follows the streams and tributaries that connect us to our world and to each other, as revealed in the life stories of Hanson's students, Minnesotans driven from their faraway homelands by climate disruption. The book's currents carry us to threatened mangrove swamps in Saudi Arabia, to drought-stricken Ethiopia, to rocks bearing ancient messages above crooked rivers in northern Minnesota, to a diabetic crisis in an ICU bed at a St. Paul hospital. With the benefit of gentle insight and a broad worldview, Hanson encourages us at every turn to find our own way, to discover how the health of our bodies and the health of the world they inhabit are inextricably linked and how attending, and tending, to their shared distress can lead to a genuine, grounded wellbeing.

When, in the grip of a global pandemic, humans drastically change their behavior to preserve human life, we also see how the earth breathes more freely as a result. In light of that lesson, Watershed helps us to consider our place and our part in the health and healing of the world around us.



Author: Ranae Lenor Hanson
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Published: 05/11/2021
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 0.70d
ISBN: 9781517910976

About the Author

An educator and committed climate activist, Ranae Lenor Hanson taught writing and global studies at Minneapolis College for thirty-one years.


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