What is the relation of humanity to the ‘rest of nature’? Situated in the epoch of the Anthropocene and as concerns about climate emergency dramatically rise, the paper looks beyond the human/nature ontological separation and narratives of domination, in order to investigate the possibility of alternative worldviews and practices, instrumental for socio-ecological repair. Kentos, deriving from the greek verb kentaw (embroider or sting), describes the harvest practice of mastiha tree, which grows solely on Chios island. In the precision of the manual labour and the rituality of Kentos, one can read beyond pure production, a relationship of mutuality and a socio-ecological bond unfolding between human bodies, trees and their environment. The paper revisits the mastiha landscapes of Chios island, at North Aegean in Greece and narrates the story of relations that have occurred between humans and a tree native to the island, the Pistacia lentiscus var. Chia. It unpacks this socio-ecological bond and its various social, political and economic extensions, investigating how this interspecies relation has operated in history as a productive force and how it has survived in the present time, entangled in capitalist flows, climatic and urban pressures. The aim is to explore knowledge latent in interspecies relations that occurre in territories entangled in capitalist processes of extended urbanisation. Gathering this knowledge aims at informing alternative concepts and strategies for dealing with the contemporary socio-ecological challenges. The paper employs a methodology of relational thinking: it problematises and retracts strict ontological boundaries between human and ‘the rest of Nature’. By doing so it reveals a whole new space of relations between species and sets for an exploration of the relations that we encounter there. This space is examined and conceptualised through qualitative ethnographic work, analysis of documentary sources, oral history and secondary sources that have captured intentionally or unintentionally facets of the socio-ecological bond. Concluding, the paper identifies a socio-ecology of care nested in interspecies relations. It reveales care as a latent interspecies practice, as situated knowledge, as a more-than-human collective, and as an intrinsic value of reciprocity between forms of life, within and beyond capitalism, generating alternative socio-political formations and alternative vision. The paper ends with a proposition: care is a choice, a valid alternative option for design space, strategy and practice to re-engage productively with the ‘rest of nature’, material and living world.

人类与“其余自然”的关系是什么？置身于人类世时代，随着对气候紧急情况的担忧急剧上升，本文超越了人类/自然本体论的分离和统治的叙述，以调查替代世界观和实践的可能性，这有助于社会生态修复。Kentos源自希腊语动词kentaw（刺绣或刺），描述了仅生长在希俄斯岛上的乳香树的采收方式。在手工劳动的精确度和 Kentos 的仪式感中，人们可以超越纯粹的生产、一种相互关系以及人体、树木和环境之间展开的社会生态纽带。这篇论文重温了希腊北爱琴海希俄斯岛的 mastiha 景观，并讲述了人类与岛上原生树木黄连木的关系故事。嘉。它解开了这种社会生态纽带及其各种社会、政治和经济延伸，研究了这种种间关系在历史上如何作为生产力运作，以及它如何在当今时代生存下来，纠缠于资本主义流动、气候和城市压力。目的是探索物种间关系中潜在的知识，这些关系发生在与资本主义扩展城市化进程纠缠在一起的领土上。收集这些知识旨在为应对当代社会生态挑战的替代概念和策略提供信息。该论文采用了一种关系思维方法：它质疑并收回了人类与“自然界的其余部分”之间严格的本体论界限。通过这样做，它揭示了物种之间关系的全新空间并开始探索我们在那里遇到的关系。通过定性民族志工作、文献资料分析、口述历史和有意或无意地捕捉到社会生态纽带的各个方面的二手资料，对这个空间进行了检查和概念化。最后，本文确定了嵌套在种间关系中的社会生态学关怀。它将关怀揭示为一种潜在的跨物种实践、情境知识、超越人类的集体，以及资本主义内外各种生活方式之间互惠的内在价值，从而产生替代的社会政治形态和替代的愿景。论文以一个命题结尾：care is a choice，一个有效的备选方案设计空间、策略和实践，以有效地重新融入“自然的其余部分”、物质世界和生活世界。