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This review covers two major causes of change in pastoral systems. First is fragmentation, the dissection of a natural system into spatially isolated parts, which is caused by a number of socioeconomic factors such as changes in land tenure, agriculture, sedentarization, and institutions. Second is climate change and climate variability, which are expected to alter dry and semiarid grasslands now and into the future. Details of these changes are described using examples from Africa and Mongolia. An adaptation framework is used to place global change in context. Although pastoral systems are clearly under numerous constraints and risks have intensified, pastoralists are adapting and trying to remain flexible. It is too early to ask if the responses are enough, given the magnitude and number of changes faced by pastoralists today.

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 1: SEEING: Poetry as Inquiry -- 1. SEEING WITH AN UNCONSCIOUS EYE: The Poetic in the Work of Emily Carr -- EMILY CARR - WOMAN, ARTIST, INDIVIDUAL & VISIONARY -- THE EARLY YEARS -- A HOLY ENCOUNTER -- THE CREATIVE SURGE -- A NEW INTEGRATION -- THE MATURE YEARS -- REFERENCES -- 2. LEAN IN AS THE STORY IS TOLD: Vestibular Sense, Poetic Image, Instruction for Seeing -- INVITATION -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 3. A/R/T(HERAPIST)-OGRAPHY: Examining the Weave -- KEY ELEMENTS TO A/R/T(HERAPIST)-OGRAPHY -- PROCESSs -- Curiosity - A Place of Not Knowing -- Relationship: Witnessing, Empathic, Embodied, Presence -- -Graphy -- THE FRAME -- THREADING IT ALL TOGETHER -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 4. THE UNPREDICTABILITY OF BLIS: A Grandfather's Poetic Riffs -- REFERENCES -- 5. JOYS AND DILEMMAS:Documenting, Disentangling, and Understanding Experience through Poetry -- INTRODUCTION -- BACKGROUND -- I: ON RENDERINGS -- II: OF FRAGMENTS/ AND HEARTWOOD -- III: FALL INTO FREEDOM -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- 6. EMBODIED POETICS IN MOTHER POETRY: Dialectics and Discourses of Mothering -- ANALYSIS -- Relationships between Mother and Child, Self and Others -- Medicalization and Commercialization versus Embodied Knowledge -- Mothering, Work and Poetry -- DISCUSSION -- Interanimation of Mothering Discourses -- Relationships between Mother and Child, Self and Others -- Mothering, Work and Poetry -- Medicalization and Commercialization versus Embodied Knowledge -- REFERENCES -- 7. RESONANCE AND AESTHETICS: No Place That Does Not See You -- REFERENCES -- SECTION 2: UNDERSTANDING: Poetry through Inquiry -- 8. POETICS IN A CAPACIOUS LANDSCAPE -- WORD CONSTELATIONS -- WRITING CONSTELATIONS -- REFERENCES -- 9. WHITE SKIN, BROWN SOUL: A Poetic Autoethnography.

This article contributes to a growing trend in articulating an aesthetic phenomenology that exercises more evocative and poetic forms of writing. Our task is to give ontological weight to our common humanity, thereby facilitating experiences of recognition and `homecoming'. This developing trend could benefit from Gendlin's philosophy of the body and his practice of `focusing', which finds words that carry forward the textural dimensions of experience. We apply this practice of embodied interpretation to research about caring for a lifelong partner with Alzheimer's disease. We conclude that the value of embodied interpretation is that it serves the kind of knowledge that is particularly important in human sciences — it provides understandings that live in ways that touch both `head' and `heart'.

From the disciplinary perspective of communication studies, we review theory and research in family communication, including a brief history of the family communication field; the contributions of a family communication perspective; and 5 theories of family communication: communication accommodation theory, communication privacy management theory, family communication patterns theory, narrative theor(ies), and relational dialectics theory. We then illustrate the concept of discourse dependence in family communication processes and discuss current trends in family communication research. We also suggest emerging directions for family communication scholarship.

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