Getting to the Heart of the Planetary Health Movement: Nursing Research Through Collaborative Critical Autoethnography
Round 1
Reviewer 1 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsDear authors, what a lovely contribution to the global community of readers this will be. This is very well written. I start with heartfelt support for your work and include a few comments to consider as your writing moves forward.
The triple planetary crisis is mentioned throughout. Consider the "metacrisis" (as common language in the literature) may be helpful to the readers of this journal if that connection is linked.
I love the depth of how you tell your story. This sentence, "We were tired of rushing our words to be understood and being out of breath." This made me pause for a deep breath myself before experiencing your journey sharing.
I smiled many times reading your stories, especially as your what's ap group forms and the dialogue of your sweet conversations with the water were beginning. The embodied approach to the teaching that your work informs in this article is sensory and so it fosters a feeling while reading. I believe listeners will be well empowered to connect with your experiences.
Impressively, you were able to able to make this an actionable practice for readers to walk away with. The model for holistic peacemaking is a critical tool. I look forward to applying the principles to my work and relationships in the future. I both thank and congratulate you on these contributions!
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Reviewer 2 Report
Comments and Suggestions for AuthorsThank you for the opportunity to review this important manuscript. There is no more urgent and entangled matter for nursing - and everyone else - to attend to than planetary health. Your writing is clear and easy to follow. I have some suggestions below to strengthen.
In the first paragraph of the introduction, one suggestion I have is to name the existential threat wildfire, flood, drought, zoonosis, etc. presents to humans as well as non - that is, it's not simply mental and spiritual health outcomes (nor are these things distinct from other health outcomes) that are at stake.
Do a bit more to unpack and explain Soul Wound.
Did you/do you have any accountability partners in reading and writing this?
I notice that you contextualize your social location quite a bit. You do so without naming racialization, which I think is an important part of thinking through what your work means. I also notice that you do not explicitly name being human, which is also again kind of important in making space/building justice for more than humans - especially since we have so much work to do to. It is also true that this paper is an academic paper being published as part of local and global capitalist political economies of knowledge production that has environmental and epistemic implications - I think it would strengthen your offering to acknowledge and grapple with this.
What are the limits of autoethnography? In what ways does this hazard replicating existing harms and knowledge systems? While I definitely see connections and insight being made with this method, I'm struggling to understand how it is doing the work of decentering the human or resisting anthropocentrism so do the work of making the connections and acknowledging the limits.
I really like the voice shifts from each narrative to the next. It works really well here.
Linking to the Global Nurse Agenda for Climate Justice in the conclusion is kind of wobbly to me. In some respects, I think it undermines your project of relating and kinbuilding by instrumentalizing it to human purposes even as it is a project that is necessary to worlding more just, equitable futures. It kind of extends beyond the project of "learning to embody these concepts within local ecosystems" and lands for me as slightly disingenuous. This might be mitigated by some reframing to contextualize the relationship building as part of the project.
Broadly I think this is an interesting and important paper. Two things I wonder about are how capitalism, imperialism, and white supremacy operate to reinforce anthropocentrism and how the globe doesn't need humans, even though we like to think we are an important part of it... A couple of provocations to consider as you reflect.
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