New Book Urges Humans to Hear the Call of Place

"The agency of place" is the key concept in a new book co-authored by University of Kansas Associate Professor of Geography Jay T. Johnson, an affiliate of KU's Indigenous Studies program. “Being Together in Place: Indigenous Coexistence in a More Than Human World” (University of Minnesota Press, 2017) by Johnson and University of Missouri Associate Professor of Geography Soren C. Larsen argues that indigenous people’s understanding of the interconnected nature of people, places and animals has a special power that ought to be respected, even in what they call “post-colonial settler states.”

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