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Jessica Gaitán Johannesson at Edinburgh International Book Festival

What new ways of thinking and feeling can guide us through rapid climate change? Activist and writer Jessica Gaitán Johannesson uses the body and its vulnerabilities to comprehend the climate crisis in her raw collection of essays, The Nerves and Their Endings. The memoir Belonging, by artist and writer Amanda Thomson, began as an artwork inspired by Scots pines and grew into a radically personal piece of nature writing. Their conversation is chaired by Roxani Krystalli.

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The Nerves and Their Endings

The body as a measuring tool for planetary harm. A nervous system under increasing stress.

In this urgent collection that moves from the personal to the political and back again, writer, activist, and migrant Jessica Gaitán Johannesson explores how we respond to crises.

She draws parallels between an eating disorder and environmental neurosis, examines the perils of an activist movement built on non-parenthood, dissects the privilege of how we talk about hope, and more.

The synapses that spark between these essays connect essential narratives of response and responsibility, community and choice, belonging…

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