Connecting Worlds: A Memoir on Art, Anthropology and Activism

A hopeful and clear-eyed journey into the story of social change. The artist, anthropologist and community activist Daniel Buckles shows how connectionto self, others and naturecan become the catalyst for an engaged life. Participation in the bush life of the 1970s Yukon, exposure to the complex culture of Mexico and a battle with cancer at the age of thirty-two prompted the author to work with people living on the edge: Honduran peasants inventing new agricultural technologies for hillside agriculture; landless Bangladeshi women gleaning nutrient-rich food from their surroundings; small religious communities standing in solidarity at the centre of disaster relief efforts in the Philippines and Burkina Faso; grassroots organizations fighting to protect urban forests in Ottawa, Canada. This story of personal discovery and engaged research offers a window into real-life social struggles and life's key challenges and professional choices. Richly illustrated with professional photography and paintings, Connecting Worlds (350 pages) shows how to make a difference, from the inside out.

"Connecting Worlds is an absorbing travelogue of contemporary social struggles, a captivating journey of sound and light, no small amount of adventure and many stories about how change really happens. I read the book twice: first with envy and the second time with admiration."

Pat Roy Mooney is a Giraffe Hero, author of Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity and recipient of the Right Livelihood Award and the Pearson Medal of Peace.

"As a young anthropologist, it is inspiring to read this candid and informative book. Buckles doesn't shy away from imagining a better world, and demonstrates how anthropology's methods can be used to get us there."

Emma Bider, PhD candidate and author of We Animals.

"This is a wonderfully refreshing and energizing book that celebrates the possibility of many different worlds."

Michel Pimbert is Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics at Coventry University (UK), and author of Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity.

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