ABSTRACT
The negative impacts of globalization are heightened when peoples are no longer rooted to the places where they reside. Westernized lifestyles, based on unbridled individualism and outlandish consumerism, disrupt our immersion within the local community and place. Home and relationships become disposable. At the same time, if we focus solely on our immediate community, we become unaware of the ecological and social global impacts of our existence. This chapter purports the need for a story of home that is rooted in one’s local community and extends to a global worldview. Both ecopsychological and transpersonal dimensions of place are examined as a framework to reimagine and deepen our rootedness within Earth.
