How Immersing Myself in Place Engendered Emergent and Entangled Transformation

"This dissertation details a doctoral research project that considered how embodied experience to place and the more-than-human world within the Florida Everglades might influence the existent entanglements of human-nature connectedness. I explored my immersive connection to place and experience with the more-than-human through a multi-methodological approach. Applying multiple data collection tools such as participant-observation of human and the more-than-human, walking, purposeful sitting by the water, kayaking, and multimedia channels, I captured irrevocable moments in time and space within the Florida Everglades. Withal, through semi-structured interviews, I conversed with representatives of the Seminole Tribe of Florida and the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida. With this dissertation deliverable, I provide the reader with an introduction to the complexities of the matter, a contextual understanding of the subject, research question and subclass questions, research methodologies, and methods that prompted and supported the proposed research project. Further, I present the ongoing entangled emergence of themes and subthemes such as awe, connection, colonialism, power relations and utilitarian biophilic typology."--leaf ii