(Video) Donna J. Haraway. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene
Joint Visiting Artists and Scholars and Graduate Lecture Series Event
In the midst of spiraling ecological devastation, multispecies feminist theorist Donna J. Haraway’s book, Staying with the Trouble, offers provocative new ways to reconfigure our relations to the earth and its inhabitants. Haraway will discuss why learning to stay with the trouble of living and dying together on a damaged earth might provide a means to build more livable futures. Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
(Text) Gerald G. Marten. Human ecology is the study of how human social systems relate to and interact with the ecological systems on which they depend. Human Ecology: Basic Concepts for Sustainable Development by Gerald G. Marten introduces these principles in an accessible, story-driven format. The book explains how ecosystems are organized and function, the interactions between human social systems and these ecosystems, and how social institutions and processes either support or conflict with sustainability. It integrates well-established ecological principles with recent concepts from complex systems theory. Simple diagrams, examples (though somewhat dated), and exercises are used throughout to make the concepts easy to understand.
(Text) This book includes contributions from leading lawyers, scientists, philosophers, and writers from around the world who participated in the inaugural gathering of the More-Than-Human Rights (MOTH) project. The volume discusses the philosophical, legal, and scientific foundations of the MOTH framework as well as its implications for ideas and practices in fields such as law, human rights, ecology, politics, and storytelling.
Feral Atlas invites you to explore the ecological worlds created when nonhuman entities become tangled up with human infrastructure projects. Seventy-nine field reports from scientists, humanists, and artists show you how to recognize “feral” ecologies, that is, ecologies that have been encouraged by human-built infrastructures, but which have developed and spread beyond human control. These infrastructural effects, Feral Atlas argues, are the Anthropocene.
(Resources) A compilation of resources from the group Disabled Hikers. Eco-Crip Theory bridges disability and environmental studies. This is a growing list of resources about eco-crip theory, eco-crip politics, eco-ableism, environmental justice, and other ecological and place-based resources that center Disabled experiences.
(Video) Robin Wall Kimmerer. A lecture on "Justice for all: Restoration, Reciprocity, and Respect for All Beings”
Robin Wall Kimmerer is a mother, scientist, decorated professor, and enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. She is the author of Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teaching of Plants and Gathering Moss: A Natural and Cultural History of Mosses. She is a SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor of Environmental Biology, and the founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment.
(Web-based Education) Re^Human is dedicated to giving people from all sectors the tools and knowledge they need to heal our planet. We firmly believe that humanity's deepest and truest purpose is to be a keystone species, or a species upon which entire ecosystems depend. Indigenous civilizations around the world and throughout time have proven that we can catalyze biodiversity with our very presence, when guided by the proper values and strategies. Re^Human is an Indigenous suite of online courses designed to bring these skills and worldviews to the world, as responsibly and effectively as we can.
(Video) Dr. Lyla June Johnston (aka Lyla June) is an Indigenous musician, scholar, and community organizer of Diné (Navajo), Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) and European lineages.
Her messages focus on Indigenous rights, supporting youth, traditional land stewardship practices and healing inter-generational and inter-cultural trauma.
She blends her study of Human Ecology at Stanford, graduate work in Indigenous Pedagogy, and the traditional worldview she grew up with to inform her music, perspectives and solutions. Her doctoral research focused on the ways in which pre-colonial Indigenous Nations shaped large regions of Turtle Island (aka the Americas) to produce abundant food systems for humans and non-humans.