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What is it like to exist in nature?
What is it like to exist with nature?
What is it like to exist as nature?
What experiences do people describe when in/with/as nature?
How do people relate to nature?
How do people connect to nature?
What or who is nature for people?
What do people see and hear?
What do people say and do?
How is their speech and thought shaped by their surroundings?
What kind of experiences do people have: cognitive (day dreaming, processing, internal monologue, memories), physical (embodiment, pain, external/internal physical sensations, breathing, survival, listening, sensing), emotional (freedom, freeingness, fear, loneliness, satisfaction, openness), social (connectedness, loneliness, alone time), spiritual (oneness, connectedness, close to the sublime, transcendent,
Concepts:
Nature as commodity
Nature as a threat
Nature as us
Nature as stationary object
Nature as a being
Nature as an experience
Nature as extreme
Nature as foreign
Nature as a place
Nature as wellbeing, restoration
Nature as psychological experience
Nature as education
Nature as 'out there'
Nature as immersive
Nature as self
First sources:
First hand accounts (diaries from trips)
Pastoral symphony - Beethoven
Kinship Vol. 1 - 2 Edited by Van Horn, Wall Kimmerer, Hausdoerffer
People who interact with nature in different ways: Kristina Eriksen Isham and her gangs, people at losæter, people at the samdyrkelag, simone.
Talking with indigenous people, Samis, Ella Marie
Reading old books
Schweitzer, R. D., Glab, H., & Brymer, E. (2018). The human–nature experience: A phenomenological-psychoanalytic perspective. Frontiers in Psychology, 9, 969.
Ways of exploring:
Reading, conducting interviews, listening to recorded and live music, field notes (audio, writing, drawing, painting), surveys,
Phenomenology, interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA).
Qual, quan, intuitive, artistic, free hand, metaphoric, feelings,