Critical Restoration: Reading Lists

Headwaters

readings

• Kimmerer, Robin. 2011. “Restoration and Reciprocity: The Contributions of Traditional Ecological Knowledge.” D. Egan,  E. Hjerpe, and J. Abrams (eds.), Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration: Integrating Science, Nature, and Culture. Washington, DC: Island Press. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-039-2_18.
• Doshi, Sabana. 2017. “Embodied urban political ecology: Five propositions.” Area, 49(1), 125-128. https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12293.
• Heynen, Nik, and Megan Ybarra. 2020. “On Abolition Ecologies and Making ‘Freedom as a Place.’” Antipode, August, anti.12666. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12666.
• Jampel, Catherine. 2018. “Intersections of Disability Justice, Racial Justice and Environmental Justice.” Environmental Sociology 4 (1): 122–35. https://doi.org/10.1080/23251042.2018.1424497.
• McKittrick, Katherine. 2013. “Plantation Futures.” Small Axe: A Caribbean Journal of Criticism 17 (3): 1–15. https://doi.org/10.1215/07990537-2378892.

I- Building Interdependence + resisting normativation

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• Clare, Eli. 2017. “Ideology of Cure”, “Nuances of Cure” and “Promise of Cure.” In Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling with Cure, 5-18, 53-64, 173-188. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 
• Hall, Kim Q. 2014. “No Failure: Climate Change, Radical Hope, and Queer Crip Feminist Eco-Futures.” Radical Philosophy Review 17(1): 203-225.
• Jaffee, Laura, and Kelsey John. 2018. “Disabling Bodies of/and Land: Reframing Disability Justice in Conversation with Indigenous Theory and Activism.” Disability and the Global South 5 (2): 1407–1429.
• Levins Morales, Aurora. 2019. “The Truths Our Bodies Tell.” In Medicine Stories: Essays for Radicals, 47–52. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
• Mingus, Mia. “Access Intimacy, Interdependence and Disability Justice.” Leaving Evidence, April 12, 2017. https://leavingevidence.wordpress.com/2017/04/12/access-intimacy-interdependence-and-disability-justice/. (Watch the talk here) 
• Murphy, Michelle. 2017. “What Can’t a Body Do?” Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience 3 (1): 1–15.
• Piepzna-Samarasinha, Leah L. “Nobody Left Behind, But Wanting to Run Like Hell: Disability Justice Survival Strategies for the...” Medium, September 28, 2020. https://medium.com/@brownstargirl/nobody-left-behind-but-wanting-to-run-like-hell-disability-justice-survival-strategies-for-the-879332de160e.
• Sins Invalid. 2020. “Planetary Whistle Blowers [with guest Mordecai Cohen Ettinger].” Into the Crip Universe: Cripping the Anthropocene. https://www.sinsinvalid.org/podcast/2020/10/16/episode-3-resisting-the-medical-industial-complex. (Full transcript available through the link) 
• Wong, Alice. 2020. “Ep 87: Climate Action.” Disability Visibility Podcast. https://disabilityvisibilityproject.com/2020/10/05/ep-87-climate-action/. (Full transcript available through the link)

II- Transitions thru Ecological Restoration

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• Barra, Monica Patrice. 2020. “Good Sediment: Race and Restoration in Coastal Louisiana”. Annals of the American Association of Geographers, 111(1): 266-282. DOI: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1766411
• Black Elk, Linda. 2015. “Native Science: Understanding and Respecting Other Ways of Thinking.” Rangelands. 38(1): 3-4. doi: 10.1016/j.rala.2015.11.003 
• Bliss, John and Alexandra Fischer. 2011. “Toward a Political Ecology of Ecosystem Restoration.” In D. Egan, E. Hjerpe, and J. Abrams (eds.), Human Dimensions of Ecological Restoration: Integrating Science, Nature, and Culture. Washington, DC: Island Press. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-039-2_10
• Blomley, Nicholas. 2008. “The Spaces of Critical Geography.” Progress in Human Geography. 32(2): 285-293. doi:10.1177/0309132507084401
• Havlick, David G., and Martin W. Doyle. "Restoration Geographies." Ecological Restoration 27, no. 3 (2009): 240-43. doi: 10.3368/er.27.3.240 
• Hinchliffe, Steve. 2008. “Reconstituting Nature Conservation: Towards a Careful Political Ecology.” Geoforum. 39(1)​, 88-97. ​https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2006.09.007
• Movement Generation. “From Banks and Tanks To Cooperation and Caring”. https://movementgeneration.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/JT_booklet_Eng_printspreads.pdf
• People of Color Environmental Leadership Summit, 1991. “Principles of Environmental Justice”. https://www.ejnet.org/ej/principles.pdf
• Sayre, Nathan, et al. 2013. “Invitation to Earth Stewardship”. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. 11(7): 339.  https://doi.org/10.1890/1540-9295-11.7.339
• Smith, Laura. 2013. “Geographies of Environmental Restoration: A Human Geography Critique of Restored Nature.” Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers. 38(2): 354-358.  https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-5661.2012.00537.x
• Whyte, Kyle. 2018. “Settler Colonialism, Ecology, and Environmental Injustice”. Environment and Society. 9(1): 125-144. DOI: 10.3167/ares.2018.090109
• United Frontline Table. 2020. “A People’s Orientation to a Regenerative Economy”. https://climatejusticealliance.org/regenerativeeconomy/  , Spanish: https://climatejusticealliance.org/economia-regenerativa/?lang=es

III- Imagining + Planning for Liberatory Futures

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• Excerpts from Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements (eds. adrienne maree brown & Walidah Imarisha)
  • Foreword: Birth of a Revolution, Sheree Renée Thomas
  • Introduction, Walidah Imarisha
  • Outro, adrienne maree brown
• Collard, Rosemary-Claire, Dempsey, Jessica, and Juanita Sundberg. 2015. “A Manifesto for Abundant Futures.” Annals of the Association of American Geographers 105(2): 322-330.
• Gergan, Mabel, Smith, Sara, and Pavithra Vasudevan. 2020. “Earth beyond repair: Race and apocalypse in collective imagination.” EPD: Society and Space 38(1): 91-110.
• RyersonSJChair, “Beyond Pipelines and Prisons: Infrastructures of Abolition with Ruth Wilson Gilmore & Winona LaDuke,” YouTube Video, 1:32:34, Oct 26, 2020, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xT5eTVQAc2g
• Mattern, Shannon. 2018. “Maintenance and Care.” Places. https://placesjournal.org/article/maintenance-and-care
• Frazier, Chelsea M. 2016. “Troubling Ecology: Wangechi Mutu, Octavia Butler, and Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism.” Critical Ethnic Studies 2(1): 40-72.
• Odunlami, Abbéy, and Jared Richardson. 2019. “[Episode 2] Troubling Ecology: Black Feminist Interventions in Environmentalism.” Broadcasting Live from Field Station 5. (Podcast). https://open.spotify.com/show/5DKHEDxMRzs01bhEBcikpU?si=0ZIElqYCTW-3jS0Jkh6drQ
• Whyte, Kyle. 2017. “Indigenous Climate Change Studies: Indigenizing Futures, Decolonizing the Anthropocene.” English Language Notes 55(1-2): 153-162.
• Smiles, Deondre. 2020. “The Settler Logics of Outer Space.” Society & Space. https://www.societyandspace.org/articles/the-settler-logics-of-outer-space
• Brown, Gardiner. 2020. “The Queer Ecology of Steven Universe.” Edge Effects. https://edgeeffects.net/queer-ecology-steven-universe/
• Wagner, Phoebe, and Brontë Wieland. 2020. “Solarpunks & Storytelling in the Capitalocene.” American Book Review 41(4): 14-15.
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