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'As I write the editorial for this our fifteenth issue of the journal, species interconnectedness and global vectors have been brought into fresh relief that the editors of our fourteenth issue could not have imagined.'

Source : Editorial introduction

'What would we hear if place could speak?

'What would we hear if we listened to our ancestral stories for wisdom in navigating current circumstances, even while recognizing that we now inhabit entirely new circumstances requiring up-to-date science and inventiveness, as well as ancient insight into the human experience?' (Geoff Berry Introduction)

'This special double issue of PAN: Philosophy, Activism, Nature invited authors to curate an essay on the theme of place. The aim was to open up a dialogue between contributors from a multitude of disciplines, making space for analytical, creative, structured, argumentative, open, discursive and ruminative reflections fuelled by creativity and lived experiences. To curate is to take care (L. curare). In our view, the coming together of the manifold kinds of biotic and abiotic existence that are familiar through the medium of subjective human experience—and its literary and essayistic modes of representation—collectively produces notions of the ever-unfolding and plural becomings of 'place'. Place is both the site of and active agent in diverse subjective experience of space, which we have brought into conversation in PAN12. Locating residual ethical contours in the essayistic, photographic, lyrical and narrative modes, and disclosing affective insights in their analysis and critique, these essays of caring can be understood as forms of emotional practice, which we have brought together into three loose clusters, named 'dialogue', 'response' and 'exegesis'. ' (Introduction)