IEJC is developing a collaborative reading list of books related to environmental justice and psychology. The purpose is to provide psychologists with a rich and interdisciplinary source of knowledge and inspiration for research and intervention, based on the contribution of scholars involved in the struggle for environmental justice worldwide. The reading list is a work-in-progress and everyone can suggest an entry by contacting the IEJC.

 

  1. Abram, D. (1996). The spell of the sensuous: Perception and language in a more-than-human world. New York, NY: Vintage.
  2. Andreotti, Vanessa (Machado de Oliveira). (2021) Hospicing modernity: Facing Humanity’s Wrongs and the Implications for Social Activism. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books.
  3. Beckert, S. (2014). Empire of cotton: A global history. New York, NY: Vintage.
  4. Bohm, David. (1980). Wholeness and the implicate order. Boston, MA: Ark.
  5. Bohm, David (2003). The essential David Bohm (edited by L. Nichol). New York, NY: Routledge. [Can be downloaded free as pdf here: https://cspeech.ucd.ie/Fred/docs/Bohm_2005_.pdf]
  6. Chakrabarty, D. (2021). The climate of history in a planetary age. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
  7. Despret, V. (2016). What Would animals Say if We Asked the Right Questions?. Minneapolis: Univ of Minnesota Press.
  8. Duncan, R. (2018). Nature in mind: Systemic thinking and imagination in ecopsychology and mental health. Routledge.
  9. la Cadena, M. (2015). Earth beings: Ecologies of practice across Andean worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  10. Escobar, A. (1995/2012). Encountering development: The making and unmaking of the Third World. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  11. Escobar, A. (2020). Pluriversal politics: The real and the possible. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  12. Escobar, A. (2017). Designs for the pluriverse: Radical interdependence, autonomy, and the making of worlds. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  13. Fei, H. T., Fei, X., Hamilton, G. G., & Zheng, W. (1992). From the soil: The foundations of Chinese society. Univ of California Press.
  14. Fisher, E. (1979). Woman’s creation: Sexual evolution and the shaping of society. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.
  15. Gagliano, Monica. (2018). Thus Spoke the Plant: A remarkable journey of groundbreaking scientific discoveries and personal encounters with plants. New York, NY: Penguin Random House.
  16. Gagliano, Monica, Ryan, John Charles, & Viera, Patricia [Eds.]. (2021). The Mind of Plants: Narratives of Vegetal Intelligence. Santa Fe, NM: Synergetic Press.
  17. Gespe’gewa’gi Mi’gmawei Mawiomi (2016). Nta’tugwaqanminene: Our Story, Evolution of the Gespe’gewa’gi Mi’gmaq. Halifax, NS: Fernwood.
  18. Goodwin, B. (2007). Nature’s due: Healing our fragmented culture. Edinburgh, UK: Floris Books.
  19. Grafton, R., Robin, L., & Wasson, R. (2005). Understanding the environment: Bridging the disciplinary divides. UNSW Press.
  20. Hoggett, P. (Ed.). (2019). Climate psychology: On indifference to disaster. Palgrave.
  21. Krenak, A. (2020). Ideas to Postpone the End of the World. House of Anansi.
  22. Kimmerer, R. W. (2013). Braiding sweetgrass: Indigenous wisdom, scientific knowledge, and the teachings of plants. Minneapolis, MN: Milkweed Editions.
  23. Kothari, A., Salleh, A., Escobar, A., Damaria, F., & Acosta, A. (Eds.). (2019). Pluriverse: A post- development dictionary. New Delhi, IN: Tulika Books.
  24. Latour, B. (2018). Down to earth: Politics in the new climatic regime. John Wiley & Sons.
  25. Lovelock, J. (2006). Revenge of Gaia: Earth’s climate in crisis and the fate of humanity. New York, NY: Basic Books.
  26. Macy, J. (2007). World as lover, world as self: Courage for global justice and ecological renewal. Berkeley, CA: Parallax.
  27. Malm, A. (2020). Corona, climate, chronic emergency: War communism in the twenty-first century. New York: Verso.
  28. Margulis, L. (1998). Symbiotic planet: A new look at evolution. New York, NY: Basic Books.
  29. McGilchrist, I. (2018). The Master and his emissary: The divided brain and the making of the Western world [expanded edition]. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  30. Merchant, C. (1980). The death of nature: Women, ecology, and the Scientific Revolution. New York, NY: Harper and Row.
  31. Merchant, C. (2005). Radical ecology: The search for a livable world (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
  32. Mignolo, W. D. (2011). The darker side of Western modernity: Global futures, decolonial options. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  33. Molano, A. (2005). The Dispossessed: Chronicles of the desterrados of Colombia. Haymarket Books.
  34. Morton, T. (2021). All art is ecological. Penguin UK.
  35. Nixon, R. (2011). Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Harvard University Press.
  36. Pellow, D. N. (2017). What is critical environmental justice?. John Wiley & Sons.
  37. Sahtouris, E. (1999). Earthdance: Living systems in evolution. iUniverse
  38. Scott, J. C. (2017). Against the grain: A deep history of the earliest states. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
  39. Simard, Suzanne. (2021). Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest. New York, NY: Penguin Random House.
  40. Simpson, L. (2017). As we have always done: Indigenous freedom through radical resistance. Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press.
  41. Smith, L. T. (1999). Decolonizing methodologies: Research and indigenous peoples. New York, NY: Zed Books and Dunedin, NZ: University of Otago Press.
  42. Somé, M. P. (1995). Of water and the spirit: Ritual, magic, and initiation in the life of an African shaman. Penguin.
  43. de Sousa Santos, B. (2014). Epistemologies of the South: Justice against epistemicide. New York: Routledge.
  44. de Sousa Santos, B. (2018). The end of the cognitive empire: The coming of age of the epistemologies of the South. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.
  45. de Sousa Santos, B., & Mendes, J. M. (Eds.). (2020). Demodiversity: Toward Post-Abyssal Democracies. Routledge.
  46. Warde, P., Robin, L., & Sörlin, S. (2018). The environment: A history of the idea. JHU Press.
  47. Weiss, L. M., & Buchanan, A. V. (2009). The mermaid’s tale: Four billion years of cooperation in the making of living things. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

A special thanks to: Wade Pickren, PhD, who provided the first list of titles.