![]() ![]() Gavin Van Horn: The kayak-to-work day was kind of a lark. Self portrait by Gavin Van Horn, September, 2016. The urban kayaker heads to work on the Chicago River. Interview highlights, edited for clarity, follow. Stream or download our conversation here. Our discussion ranged widely-from ethics to literary aesthetics, commuting via kayak to Norwegian bachelor famers. Curt Meine, conservation biologist, historian, and writer, joined me in the second half of the show to discuss the beautiful essay of his that appears in Wildness. ![]() I spoke with Gavin Van Horn, the director of the Cultures of Conservation program at the Center for Humans & Nature who, along with John Hausdoerffer, edited and contributed to Wildness. What does it mean to be wild in times of rising global temperatures and rampant social inequality? Is wildness rural or urban? Is it something to be embraced, even cultivated, or feared and rejected as a Western colonialist intellectual construct? Is wildness a revolutionary politics, or something more reformist, even centrist? These are some of the questions at the heart of an important new volume of essays, Wildness: Relations of People and Place, recently published by the University of Chicago Press. ![]()
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