New Directions in Environmental Humanities
A conversation with Christof Mauch on the future of the environmental humanities.
A conversation with Christof Mauch on the future of the environmental humanities.
A story about the environmental conflict between GM soy growers and Maya beekeepers in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico.
Judi Bari’s lecture on Revolutionary Ecology, with two songs at the outset, which illuminates her nature spirituality and biocentrism, her critiques of capitalism as inherently antithetical to environmental sustainability, and her strategic efforts to forge alliances between workers and environmentalists in defense of the redwood biome in Northern California.
Experience Australian environmental activist John Seed’s powerful “Ecological Healing” lecture. Introduced by University of Florida professors Shaya Isenberg & Bron Taylor, Seed, a deep ecology pioneer, calls for reconnecting with our planet, challenging the anthropocentric worldview fueling environmental destruction.
Is technology neutral, or is it the architect of our alienation? In this March 2005 lecture, anarcho-primitivist philosopher John Zerzan argued that civilization itself—defined by domestication, division of labor, and industrial technology—is the root cause of modernity’s ecological and psychological dysfunctions.
Dive into a pivotal 1993 lecture by renowned Professor Bron Taylor as he unravels the complex tapestry of the American conservation movement. This insightful presentation offers a panoramic view, tracing the philosophical and spiritual roots that shaped environmental thought and action, particularly focusing on the rise of the deep ecology movement and what Taylor terms “pagan environmentalism.”
The lecture features environmental activist Dave Foreman, introduced by Bron Taylor at the University of Wisconsin–Oshkosh in 1990. The event situates Foreman’s ideas within the emerging discourse on radical environmentalism and its ethical foundations.