The holidays season is in full swing! And for the most part, it has been a nice change of pace for my family and I. Over the past week or so, we (my wife, two young children, and I) have had the opportunity to spend extra time together and have made many meaningful family memories. There Read more about (Happy) Holidays: Christmas and Consumption[…]
This is the third installment of a 3-part series on the topic of ecopsychology. In the first post, I introduced the idea of ecopsychology and explained what it entails. In the second post, I illustrated why it is important for environmentalists to draw on ecopsychological ideas in their work. In this third and final post, I Read more about Ecopsychology: What it is and Why it Matters – Part 3[…]
This coming fall semester, I am excited to be teaching my first university-level course: Introduction to Cultural Geography, at Redeemer University College in Ancaster, Ontario. As I go about preparing my lectures for the course, I am finding one particular chapter from the textbook, Geographies of Identity and Difference, to be engaging, yet, at the same time, quite limiting (and, Read more about Religion: Conflict or Compassion?[…]
That millions of people share in the same forms of mental pathology does not make those people sane ~ Erich Fromm In the first post of this series, I suggested that two primary assumptions underlie the concept of ecopsychology: psychology needs ecology and ecology needs psychology. The focus of this post is on the ‘second’ Read more about Ecopsychology: What it is and Why it Matters – Part 2[…]
Set aside the learned ways of perceiving the world as dead matter for your use and see if you can recover again your actual perception of the world as a community of beings to whom you are meaningfully related – Erazim Kohák Some of my most meaningful childhood memories stem from experiences that I had while Read more about Ecopsychology: What it is, and Why it Matters – Part 1[…]
Just yesterday (July 3, 2014) the Supreme Court of Canada granted the Tsilhqot’in First Nation title to a 1,700-square-kilometre area of traditional land outside its reserve in British Columbia. While this is a massive victory for the Tsilhqot’in people (who have been fighting for their land for over two decades), and also for other First Read more about Our Relationship with Land[…]