In this week’s short fiction story, a woman and her young son move to an abandoned village along Japan’s eastern coast, where a typhoon begins to gather around them.
Read “The Place by the Sea,” by Masatsugu Ono and translated by Sam Malissa. https://emergencemagazine.org/fiction/the-place-by-the-sea/ #ShiftingLandscapes #Fiction #ShortStory

What would it mean to move from a sense of Antarctica as an inert landscape to be conquered, charted, or merely mined for information—toward an aligned, reciprocal relationship with her?
Read this week’s essay, “Antarctica the Woman” by Stephanie Krzywonos. https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/antarctica-the-woman/ #ShiftingLandscapes #antarctica

In this week’s essay, Stephanie Krzywonos interrogates heroic narratives of Antarctica that gender the land through feminine tropes. As she comes to know this expansive landscape, she invites us to consider the continent on its own terms.
Read “Antarctica the Woman.” https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/antarctica-the-woman/
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“The story of Turkana and the story of us are entangled…It is a tale of relentless movement, adaptation, and migration, of a shifting landscape, changing climate, and restless populations.”
“A Whale in the Desert,” by Tristan McConnell. Photos by Sarah Waiswa.
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-whale-in-the-desert/ #ShiftingLandscapes

In this week’s essay from Volume 4, writer Tristan McConnell ventures across Turkana in northwest Kenya, and witnesses how movement has shaped and been shaped by the landscape for millennia.
Read “A Whale in the Desert,” with photos by Sarah Waiswa. https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-whale-in-the-desert/ #ShiftingLandscapes

Each of us can be a witness to the specific changes occurring, right now, around us. Shifting Landscapes: Writing Practices are intended to help us navigate a path both through and deeper into the changing landscapes we all inhabit.

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In this week’s newsletter, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder and documentary photographer Russel Albert Daniels, together glimpse what it means to listen for the prophetic voice of the earth.
https://mailchi.mp/emergencemagazine/reading-the-prophecies-of-the-land #ShiftingLandscapes

On the wind-sculpted dunes of Nebraska’s Sandhills, Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder considers how places shape—and are shaped by—human language and intent. Read this week’s essay, “Speaking Wind-Words,” with photography by Russel Albert Daniels. https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/speaking-wind-words/ #ShiftingLandscapes

Featured on the cover and in the opening spreads of our fourth print volume: Shifting Landscapes, this arresting series of aerial photographs captures a mountain village drowned in toxic mining waste.
View “Poisoned Beauty,” by Gheorghe Popa.
https://emergencemagazine.org/gallery/poisoned-beauty/ #Photography #ShiftingLandscapes

This week, we bring you three pieces from Volume 4 that bring to life David G. Haskell’s mind-bending study of Earth’s sounds, blending scientific inquiry with embodied, sensuous attunement. Read this week’s newsletter. https://mailchi.mp/emergencemagazine/tracing-sound-through-deep-time Illustration by Daniel Liévano. #ShiftingLandscapes #Earth #Sounds #AudioExperience #Practices

Volume 4: Shifting Landscapes spotted at the Tate bookshop in London as part of their Climate Emergency selection of key books. “We wish to address this most critical issue through art, information and action to effect and inspire change.”
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Join us for our next four-day Shifting Landscapes retreat in Australia's Great Otway National Park, led by Sufi teacher and Emergence Founder and Executive Editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee. Learn more:
https://emergencemagazine.org/event/shifting-landscapes-retreat-australia/ Photo by Kasia Murfet.
#ShiftingLandscapes #Retreat #Engage #Workshop #NatureConnection

Vol 4: Shifting Landscapes. Within you’ll find stories of changing rivers and migrating forests, blurred boundaries between human and animal, geological landscapes that reveal human histories, and prophecies that weave themselves into the land. Now shipping! https://store.emergencemagazine.org/products/volume-4-shifting-landscapes #ShiftingLandscapes

"Their story helped shape our conscience; it strengthened our belief in the future of our culture."

Waanyi writer Alexis Wright reflects on the Seven Sisters’ journey in this companion essay to the gallery, “Stories Written in the Land.” https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/a-universal-lesson-of-the-seven-sisters-story/ Artwork by Josephine Mick. #ShiftingLandscapes

Geologist-writer Lauret E. Savoy unearths the convergent forces, both geological and social, that have shaped America’s Chesapeake region in her essay, “Ancestral Structures on the Trailing Edge.”
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/ancestral-structures-on-the-trailing-edge/
Artwork by Studio Airport.
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Like the peoples who live among them, Saguaro have honed their resilience through centuries of life in the desert, and ecologists are hopeful they can be leaders, and not just victims, in our changing climate. 

View “Saguaro,” by Bear Guerra.
https://emergencemagazine.org/gallery/saguaro/ #ShiftingLandscapes #Desert #Cacti #Saguaro #Photography

In this week's essay from Shifting Landscapes, geologist-writer Lauret E. Savoy surfaces tectonic movements alongside the deliberate construction of race in colonial America—and reckons with her own inheritances in this enduring terrain.

Read “Ancestral Structures on the Trailing Edge.”
https://emergencemagazine.org/essay/ancestral-structures-on-the-trailing-edge/ #ShiftingLandscapes #Geology

In this week’s podcast, cultural ecologist and geophilosopher David Abram conjures the impossible movements of Alaskan salmon, sandhill cranes, and monarch butterflies on their annual migrations. 

Listen to “Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet.”
https://emergencemagazine.org/podcast/
Artwork by @Katieholten. #ShiftingLandscapes #Migrations #Podcast

Reflect on the changes happening around you with this simple and elegant booklet that you can take with you wherever you go. Our Shifting Landscapes writing practice booklet for pre-order. https://store.emergencemagazine.org/ #ShiftingLandscapes

What if we understood migration as emerging from a conversation—a spontaneous reciprocity—between migrating creatures and the environments they migrate within?

​​Read this week’s newsletter featuring an essay by David Abram, with artwork by Katie Holten. https://mailchi.mp/emergencemagazine/the-deep-intelligence-of-migration-patterns
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