The Trumpeter - Journal of Ecosophy (Athabasca University)
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Deep Social Ecology
Get PDFDeep ecology is a call to ground the relationship of our politics, economics, and lifeways in the ecologies that sustain them. It is the cultivation of ecosophy, wisdom grounded in, and taking responsibility for, what it is to be sustained by a place. The renowned “anarchist” social ecologist Murray Bookchin shared deep ecology's sense that our political economy should be reconciled with our ecology, even though he polemicized against deep ecology’s account of that relationship. Although Bookchin has much to offer deep ecology, I argue that we cannot afford to think the two approaches as an exclusive disjunction. This paper first recontextualizes the importance of a deep ecological approach and then evaluates Bookchin's polemic. Although Bookchin overstates his case against deep ecology, features of his own position strengthen its insights. The paper concludes by arguing for a hybrid model, rooted in the cultivation of wisdom, called deep social ecology
Bird and Line: Tracing Indian Aesthetics to Find an Ecosophy of Personal Art Practice
Get PDF"Bird and Line" is an artistic inquiry into the relationship between a deep state of artistic consciousness and the act of drawing a line to arrive at the form of a bird. This inquiry further proposes that by using line as a mode of research, the artist begins to perceive the consciousness of a bird and the relationship it shares with its form.
For me, the embodied and porous experiences of watching and knowing birds through the practice of working with "line" as an artistic element allow for an intimacy of experiencing and an unfolding of intersubjectivity. Artistic inquiry also acts as an investigation into self-awareness and self-realization in this space of making eco-art. These acts of being lead me into reflections on how perception and creativity are melded together during creative moments to allow for a porous consciousness to emerge and perform the act of drawing a bird. As an artist working with text, movement, and image, I embed questions on the ethics of creativity into how we evolve our lines of art, as well as encounter other beings. By unraveling the relationship between the inner and the outer through Indian aesthetic philosophy, I evolve methods for eco-art practice using line as an element. I emphasize the importance of artistic research with a framework of Indian aesthetics as a way of deepening our perception and relationships with the natural world.
This article is written to make artistic processes visible through a reflective auto-ethnographic approach. I write in a non-linear reflective narrative to comprehend cultural ontologies that drive my practice, unfolding internal thought processes, directions of research, and moments of mystical experience
Walker, "Sustainability: A Love Story"
No full textA book review of Sustainability: A Love Story by Nicole Walker, published by Ohio State University Press (2018)
Hallett, "Stone Talks"
No full textA book review of Stone Talks by Alyson Hallett, published by Triarchy Press (2019)
Death and Their Debris
Get PDFA poem inspired by the cycles of life and death, time and change, on the shores of Tower Beach in Point Grey, Vancouver
Forests Fanned by Waves: Embodied Ways of Knowing in a Mangrove Landscape
Get PDFThis narrative article explores a boatman's intimate relationship with the mangrove forests he had grown up with from his childhood. The author listens to the boatman's stories about his life when he is in his sixties. How he assessed the author also implied what part of his world the author would be invited to see. This is a narrative of warmth and friendship built through traversing the mangrove forest in a handmade raft, watching birdlife, lotuses and other mangrove species. The narrative captures the ecosophy of this boatman in his lived and embodied experience
