Chellis Glendinning
American writer (born 1947)
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Chellis Glendinning (born June 18, 1947 in Cleveland, Ohio, United States) 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]
Chellis Glendinning | |
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Glendinning in 2010 | |
| Born | June 18, 1947 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Education | University of California, Berkeley Columbia Pacific University |
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Movement | Ecopsychology |
Career
In 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
- 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
- Luddite.com: A book-blog mired in irony by Chellis Glendinning in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Luddite Rebellion 1811-1813 to 2011-2013. Google/www.blogger.com, 2012. (Note: This project is a website and not a book, despite this, Glendinning officially considers this as one of her "books" by listing it as such on her official website, chellisglendinning.org)[9] ludditeluddite1812.blogspot.com/
- Objetos. Editorial 3600, 2018. ISBN 978-99974-347-9-1
- In the Company of Rebels. New Village Press, 2019. ISBN 9781613320952