PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - McGinnis, Michael Vincent
TI  - The Bioregional Quest for Community
AID  - 10.3368/lj.19.1-2.84
DP  - 2000 Jan 01
TA  - Landscape Journal
PG  - 84--88
VI  - 19
IP  - 1-2
4099  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/19/1-2/84.short
4100  - http://lj.uwpress.org/content/19/1-2/84.full
AB  - This essay addresses the need to reformulate and reconceptualize bioregionalism. In a global economy, bioregionalism requires a new communal sensibility that can create an intimate connection between culture and the life region. Humans cannot live in a community that is interpreted, mapped or simulated by others. An interpreted and simulated community is not a home. Only those who inhabit a community and place can protect and restore it. The values of autopoiesis (self-production) and mimesis are described as ways to reconnect culture with place and the bioregion.