Chellis Glendinning (born 1947) is an author and activist. She has been called a pioneer in the concept of ecopsychology—the belief that promoting environmentalism is healthy.[1][2] She is a social-change activist with an emphasis on feminism, bioregionalism, and indigenous rights.[3] She promotes human cultures which are land-based and confined to bioregions, and is a critic of the use of technology.[4]
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| Born | June 18, 1947 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley Columbia Pacific University |
| Literary movement | Environmentalism Green anarchism |
Career
editIn 2007 Glendinning's bilingual folk opera De Un Lado Al Otro, was presented at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[5]
Glendinning graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in social sciences in 1969.[6] She received her doctorate in psychology from Columbia Pacific University.[7]
Her papers are housed in the Labadie Collection of the University of Michigan.[8]
Books
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- Waking Up in the Nuclear Age. William Morrow, 1987. ISBN 978-0688069377
- When Technology Wounds: The Human Consequences of Progress. New York: William Morrow, 1990. ISBN 978-0688072827
- My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization. Gabriola BC Canada: New Society Publishers/New Catalyst/ Sustainability Classics, 2007; and Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1994. ISBN 978-0877739968
- Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Empire and the Global Economy, New Society Publishers, 2002; and Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Imperialism, the Global Economy and Other Earthly Whereabouts, Shambhala Publications, 1999. ISBN 9780865714632
- A Map: From the Old Connecticut Path to the Rio Grande Valley and All the Meaning In between. Great Barrington MA: E.F. Schumacher Society, 1999.
- Chiva: A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade. New Society Publishers, 2005. ISBN 9780865715134
- Objetos. Editorial 3600, 2018. ISBN 978-99974-347-9-1
- In the Company of Rebels. New Village Press 2019. ISBN 9781613320952
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner, eds., Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995, pp. 44-54, 336
- ^ JayWalljasper and Jon Spade, eds., Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life. Gabriola Island CAN: New Society Publishers, 2001, pp. 260-263; and John Mongillo and Bibi Booth, eds., Environmental Activists. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 110-114.
- ^ "Chellis Glendinning". NYU Press. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ^ Stephanie Mills, ed., Turning Away from Technology. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997, p. xxviii; and Z. Pascal Zachary, “Not So Fast,” Wall Street Journal, June 26, 1997.
- ^ http://www.sfreporter.com/stories/performing_arts_books_September_12_18/1871/ Performing Arts / Books: September 12-18
- ^ University of California Berkeley, Class of 1969; Mongillo and Booth, pp. 110-114
- ^ "Collection: Chellis Glendinning Collection | New Mexico Archives Online". nmarchives.unm.edu. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
- ^ Accession Form #08-L13, University of Michigan/Special Collections Library. Date of Accession: 21 August 2008. Collection Name: Glendinning, Chellis, Papers. Processor: Will Lovick, 16 September 2008; http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=sclead&idno=umich-scl-glendinning