Radical Human Ecology
Intercultural and Indigenous Approaches

Explores the power of indigenous and traditional peoples' epistemologies both to critique and to complement insights from modernity and postmodernity. Organized into three sections - Head, Heart and Hand, this volume also covers: Theories of Human Ecology; Indigenous and Wisdom Traditions; and, Eco-spiritual Epistemologies and Ontology.

With the study of human ecology becoming increasingly imperative, this comprehensive volume will be a valuable addition for classroom use.

Foreword, Richard J. Borden
Introduction: human ecology: a pedagogy of hope?, Lewis Williams with Rose Roberts and Alastair McIntosh
Part 1 Head: Theories of Human Ecology: The attitude of human ecology, Ulrich Loening
The challenge of radical human ecology to the academy, Alastair McIntosh
Being from and coming to: outline of an ethno-ecological framework, Ullrich Kockel
Returning the sacred: indigenous ontologies in perilous times, Makere Stewart-Harawira.
Part 2 Heart: Radical Epistemologies of Relationship: The human ecologist as alchemist: an inquiry into Ngai Te Rangi cosmology, human agency and well-being in a time of ecological peril, Lewis Williams
Exploring identity, belonging and place-making as a transition activist, Gerri Smyth
Education for life: human ecology pedagogy as a bridge to indigenous knowing, Iain McKinnon
Sufi path: possibilities of transcending limited and limiting identity, Nayyar Javed
The promise of Orthodox Christianity for sustainable community development, Keith Morrison
North American Indians, connectivity and human ecology, Lewis Mehl-Madrona and Barbara J. Mainguy
Living in respect: traditional knowledge of the Woodland Cree in Northern Saskatchewan, Rose Roberts.
Part 3 Hand: Human Ecology in Practice: Teaching radical human ecology in the academy, Alastair McIntosh
Human ecology as peace-building, Anne Goodman
Migration, aboriginality and acculturation, Ben-Zion Weiss
The immigration experience: losses and gains for immigrant and refugee women, Judy White
Re-building China's economy on gendered rural family labour: a case study of generational migration and stasis, Yongmei Zhang and Marie Lovrod
Human ecology - from conceptual exercise to militant practice in Maranhao, Istvan van Deursen Varga and Cristina Moreno
The place of creation: transformation, trauma and rooting creative praxis, Eimear O'Neill
Experiments in action research and human ecology: developing a community of practice for rural resilience pioneers, Nick Wilding
He Whanaunga tera: the politics and practice of an indigenous and intercultural approach to ecological wellbeing, Lewis Williams
Editors' afterword
Index.