Loka Ashwood and Michael Bell publish book with colleague through the University of Chicago Press
Loka Ashwood, professor of community and environmental sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Michael Bell, Chair and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, recently published a book through the University of Chicago Press with colleague Jay Orne. Titled “Our Blood: The Social Experience of Heritas,” the book describes the central importance of our sense not just of our heritage, but our embodied heritage: that our past is in our bodies and runs in our blood, and that our embodied past is central to our futures. The authors argue that greater awareness of heritas’s social origins and social selectivity can help us cultivate a wider sense of mutual care and ease the divisiveness of our time.