Being-in-touch: The (im) possibilities of communicative and tactile connection in online experiences

LJ Mertens - new media & society, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Amid social distancing and the sole reliance on communication technologies to “keep in
touch” precipitated by COVID-19, touch, both communicatively and tactically, emerged in …

'I know how to say it, but I still don't know it in my hands': examining practices and epistemology in Forest Education

G Tal, G Dishon, D Vedder-Weiss - Environmental Education …, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Abstract In recent years, Forest Education has gained increasing traction around the world.
Yet its unique features, as well as their relations with other outdoor environmental education …

Unruly spaces, unsettling transformations: Nature connection, neoforaging, and unmediated encounters with others in Israel/Palestine

A Appel - Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
This article explores the potential of unruly wild spaces and foraging practices to enable
unmediated encounters and unsettling transformations, through the ethnography of …

More‐than‐“bird” Cultivating more‐than‐categorical attentiveness among Israeli practitioners of bird language

A Appel, N Bird‐David - American Ethnologist, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Bird language is an emerging practice among nature‐connection enthusiasts in which
practitioners strive to comprehend the signals emitted by birds and other nonhuman beings …

Zula Life: Being in Time

Y Lev-or - 2023 - search.proquest.com
This study explores the phenomenon of Zula life in Israel, a lifestyle choice characterized by
individuals opting to reside temporarily in natural settings using minimalistic materials. While …