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Pfister, Sina and de Jong, Edwin (2022). Entangled with Mother Nature through Anthropogenic and Natural Disasters. Religions, 13 (4). BASEL: MDPI. ISSN 2077-1444

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Abstract

Since the turn of the twenty-first century, there has been a guiding imperative in anthropology to better understand people's entanglements with nature. This article sets out to investigate the emergence of spiritual ecologies in the Chilean town of Constitucion. Unlike most previous studies, we rethink the partial connections and entanglements of humans with nature through linking this to spirituality, environmental care and gender. By adopting a kaleidoscopic perspective, we aim to avoid a simplification or a singular representation of the (re-)entanglements with Mother Nature. Constitucion provides an excellent setting for studying contemporary changes in human-nature entanglements as compounding crises of earthquakes, tsunami and forest fires, exacerbated by extensive timber production, that have struck the town during the past decade, have led to a resurgence by a large part of the population in interpreting and expressing their relationship with Mother Nature. Through intermittent ethnographic research between 2015 and 2019, we have concluded that the entanglements with Mother Nature in Constitucion are the result of what we call Andean performative pragmatism, and the overrepresentation of women within the group of people who care for Mother Nature can be interpreted through an ecowomanist perspective that stands for the creation of social and environmental justice. As such, the findings offer a fresh and updated way to understand and interrogate the challenges confronting present-day human-nature relations in times of climate adaptation both in Chile and far beyond.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Pfister, Sina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED de Jong, Edwin UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-664302
DOI:	10.3390/rel13040341
Journal or Publication Title:	Religions
Volume:	13
Number:	4
Date:	2022
Publisher:	MDPI
Place of Publication:	BASEL
ISSN:	2077-1444
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERN; GENDER; CULTURE; WOMEN Multiple languages Religion Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66430