ABSTRACT
The socio-ecological challenges of the 21st century will likely mark an important time in the evolution, adaptation, and reimagining of human communities. These cultural shifts will also be consequential for more-than-human life and the natural world upon which humans depend. The construction of relations between human worlds and the more-than-human natural world-human-nature relations for short-lives at the centre of these challenges as well as the possible futures humans might make and live. Seriously examining the ways in which constructions of human-nature relations have shaped societies-that is, understanding the sociohistorical development of our current times-is critical if humans are to engage in the kind of social change making demanded of us.
