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.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, 336JayWalljasper 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. She is a social-change activist with an emphasis on feminism, bioregionalism, and indigenous rights. She promotes human cultures which are land-based and confined to bioregions, and is a critic of the use of technology.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.
Career In 2007 Glendinning's bilingual folk opera De Un Lado Al Otro, was presented at the Lensic Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Glendinning graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in social sciences in 1969.University of California Berkeley, Class of 1969; Mongillo and Booth, pp. 110-114 She graduated as a Phi Beta Kappa from her university. She received her doctorate in psychology from Columbia Pacific University.
Her papers are housed in the Labadie Collection of the University of Michigan.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
Books
Waking Up in the Nuclear Age. William Morrow, 1987. When Technology Wounds: The Human Consequences of Progress. New York: William Morrow, 1990. 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. 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. 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. 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)http://chellisglendinning.org/books.html ludditeluddite1812.blogspot.com/ Objetos. Editorial 3600, 2018. In the Company of Rebels. New Village Press, 2019.
See also Deep ecology
References
External links Official website Blog