Posts in Theory Scholarship
SOPHIE STRAND on Myths as Maps /312
SOPHIE STRAND on Myths as Maps /312

Sophie invites us to embrace rot and decay, to welcome our demons to the dinner table, and to prepare for uncertain futures with tenderness. Sophie provides a route to overcome the death-trap that is self-righteousness, instead prioritizing humble complexity and surrender to relationality.

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Deep Ecology, More Than Human Kin, Plant Intelligence, Spirituality Theology, Radical Imagination, Theory Scholarship, Transition TransformationFor The WildSophie Strand, Sophie Strand Books, Sophie Strand Podcast, I Will Not Be Purified, The Flowering Wand, Rewilding Mythology, Disability, Sophie Strand Poetry, The Madonna Secret, Myth, Myth and Mycelium, Sophie Strand Substack, Sophie Strand The Container, Good Soil, Sophie, sophie, strans, Strand, strand, treeoflifeplaylist Comment
YOALLI RODRIGUEZ on Grief as an Ontological Form of Time /306
YOALLI RODRIGUEZ on Grief as an Ontological Form of Time /306

Yoalli brings us to the Chacahua-Pastoría Lagoons in Oaxaca, Mexico, to investigate deep connections with land, ongoing colonial violence, and the grief that comes alongside loving a place; a heartening conversation about the importance of ecological grief, rage, and sadness.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Racial Equity Justice, Shore Ocean Communities, Theory Scholarship, Sacrifice ZonesFor The WildYoalli Rodriguez, Mestil Yoalli Rodriguez, Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, Meztli Yoalli Rodríguez Aguilera, yoalli rodriguez biografia, Yoalli Rodriguez Grieving Geographies, Critical Geography, Anthropology, Chacahua-Pastoría Lagoons, Mexico Lagoons, Yoalli Rodriguez Professor, Yoalli Rodríguez Mexico, Yoalli, yoalli, rodriguez Comment
Dr. MIMI KHÚC on Claiming Unwellness /304
Dr. MIMI KHÚC on Claiming Unwellness /304

Mimi’s work is grounded in the question: “How do we find new ways to talk about what hurts?” Flipping diagnosis on its head, Mimi guides us to find new ways to name what we feel and to decolonize the language of feeling itself.

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Decolonization, Radical Imagination, The Cost of Capitalism, Theory Scholarship, Spirituality TheologyFor The WildMimi Khúc, Mimi Khúc Georgetown, Mimi Khúc Open in Emergency, Asian American Literary Review, Disability Justice, Mental Health, Hacked DSM, Care, Collective Care, Spoon Theory, mimi, khuc Comment
Dr. BRETT STORY on How We Belong to Each Other /303
Dr. BRETT STORY on How We Belong to Each Other /303

Brett shares how mass-incarceration and climate change are not crises of the individual, but of our culture. The abolitionist imagination may be the key to a collective future– as Brett reminds listeners that one can be both practical and utopian.

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Activism Allyship, Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildBrett Story, Brett Story Prisonland, Brett Story The Hottest August, Brett Story documentary, Brett Story filmmaker, Brett Story Ryerson, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes, The Prison in Twelve Landscapes Summary, abolition, abolitionist, abolitionist works, prison abolition, Brett, StoryComment
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Coming Alive to Other Senses /300

Bayo Akomolafe guides listeners on a journey to lose oneself and leave behind the ties that bind us to world views that do not serve humanity’s wholeness. Bayo challenges us to lean into the “political un-project” that is fugitivity, blurring societally-imposed binaries, in order to better understand the human territory and to make more-than-human sanctuary through post activism.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Globalization, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, The Cost of Capitalism, Theory Scholarship, Transition Transformation, Wisdom KeepersFor The Wildbayo akomolafe, bayo akomolafe podcast, bayo akomolafe quotes, trickster philosophy, diaspora, bayo akomolafe books, the times are urgent, bayo akomolafe the times are urgent, bayo akomolafe youtube, bayo akomolafe emergence network, bayo akomolafe poetry, yoruba, yoruba religion, critical race theory, post activism, indigeneity, politics, the sacred, right relationship, post modernity, decolonial futures, environmental justice, bayo, akomolafe, Slow Study 1Comment
Dr. CLINT CARROLL on Stewarding Homeland /299
Dr. CLINT CARROLL on Stewarding Homeland /299

Dr. Carroll pushes back against dominant settler histories about Cherokee migrations and relations to homeland and provides insight into what audience members ought to glean from Indigenous philosophies imparting practices of deep reciprocity, responsibility, and relationship to the land and each other.

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Activism Allyship, Climate Change, Climate Solutions, Colonial Violence, Conservation Restoration, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Deep Ecology, Design+Strategy, Food Sovereignty, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, Multispecies Justice, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, The Cost of Capitalism, Theory Scholarship, Transition TransformationFor The WildDr Clint Carroll Roots of Our Renewal, Dr Clint Carroll, Clint Carroll, Dr Clint Carroll Cherokee Nation, Dr Clint Carroll Boulder, Dr Clint Carroll CU Boulder, Dr Clint Carroll Colorado, Ethnobotany, Cherokee Environmental Governance, Cherokee Nation, Cherokee Environmental Leadership Program, Knowing the Land, Land Education Program, Cherokee Medicine Keepers, Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, Society for Applied Anthropology, Center for Creative Climate Communication and Behavior Change, National Science Foundation, Indian Land Tenure Foundation, Indigenous land education, community-based conservation, Indigenous ethical frameworks, climate change, traditional use plants, wild plants, tribal self-determination, tribal lands, grounded normativity, grounded relationality, ecological knowledge, land conservation, Indigenous wellbeing, natural resource management, settler-colonialism, forced displacement, homeland, Appalachia, Tahlequah, Eastern Band, Northeastern Oklahoma, old settlers, Keetoowah, Buffalo National River, gathering agreements, kinship, Trail of Tears, forced relocation, forced removal, forced migration, settler colonialism, settler colonial violence, white supremacy, racism, Land BackComment
ALEXIS SHOTWELL on Resisting Purity Culture /298
ALEXIS SHOTWELL on Resisting Purity Culture /298

Alexis elucidates that it is only through the messy process of owning up to these broken relations throughout time and seeing how we might participate in and take on culturally appropriate relations of repair, responsibility, friendship, and comradeship in the struggles for liberation that we can survive these times.

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Activism Allyship, Cultural Strategy, Direct Action, Multispecies Justice, Spirituality Theology, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildpurity culture, white supremacism, complicit locations, implication, imperfection, mistakes, repair, broken relations, repairing relations, resisting purity politics, friendship, comradeship, curiosity, Alexis, Alexis Shotwell, Shotwell Comment
Dr. JAMAICA HEOLIMELEIKALANI OSARIO on Reclaiming Aloha /297
Dr. JAMAICA HEOLIMELEIKALANI OSARIO on Reclaiming Aloha /297

Dr. Osorio guides us into a fuller understanding of aloha by returning the commodified phrase to the more extensive understanding of aloha ‘āina, wherein the possibilities for other worlds are not only born but remembered and recalled from the long history of sovereign Hawai’i and traditional Hawaiian teachings and lifeways.

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Activism Allyship, Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Indigenous Sovereignty, More Than Human Kin, Political Ideology, Racial Equity Justice, Radical Imagination, Sexual Body Liberation, The Cost of Capitalism, Theory Scholarship, Transition Transformation, Wisdom KeepersFor The WildJamaica, Osorio, Jamaica Osorio Kumulipo, Jamaica Osorio Maunakea, Jamaica Osorio dissertation, Jamaica Osorio documentary, Dr. Jamaica Osorio, Jamaica Osorio Hawaii, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio This Is the Way We Rise, Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio Poems, Jamaica Osorio White House, Jamaica Osorio Kaona, Jamaica Osorio UH Manoa, Jamaica Osorio University of Hawaii, Jamaica Osorio Slam Poetry, Jamaica Osorio PBS, Jamaica Osorio Remembering Our Intimacies, Jamaica Osorio spoken word, Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Politics, Lilikalā Kame’elehiwa, Noelani Goodyear-Kaʻōpua, “(Re)membering ’Upena of Intimacies: A Kānaka Maoli Mo’olelo Beyond Queer Theory”, Remembering Our Intimacies: Mo’olelo, Aloha Āina, and Ea Comment
KYLE WHYTE on the Colonial Genesis of Climate Change [ENCORE] /295
KYLE WHYTE on the Colonial Genesis of Climate Change [ENCORE] /295

We discuss Kyle’s body of work on dystopia and fantasy in climate justice, the reproduction of settler structures, Indigenous science, vulnerability discourses, and “decolonizing allyship.” Kyle concludes with the ever present reminder that our work must be rooted in consent, reciprocity, and trust.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, Sacrifice Zones, Climate Change, Climate Solutions, Shore Ocean Communities, Theory Scholarship, Activism AllyshipFor The WildLine 5, Line 3, Enbridge, Great Lakes, Michigan, Kyle Whyte, allyship, settler colonialism, colonialism, environmental justice, ecological tipping point, relational tipping point, climate justice, climate change, climate science, DAPL, Back Forty MineComment
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic [ENCORE] /294
Dr. MAX LIBOIRON on Reorienting Within a World of Plastic [ENCORE] /294

Ayana and Dr. Max Liboiron explore the notion of plastic as kin, oil and petrochemical subsidies, the body burden of plasticizers, the historical construction of disposability, the appropriation of Traditional Ecological Knowledge in academia, the feasibility of recycling, and more.

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More Than Human Kin, Shore Ocean Communities, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildMicroplastics, plastic pollution, plastic, marine pollution, waste colonialism, anticolonial, decolonize science, feminist methodology, CLEAR, citizen science, Max Liboiron, discard studies, waste, industrial solid waste, municipal solid waste, garbage, recycling, plastisphere, kindship, consumerism, oil subsidies, packaging, disposability, community peer review, scientific protocol, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, Waste & ConvenienceComment
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times [ENCORE] /285
Dr. BAYO AKOMOLAFE on Slowing Down in Urgent Times [ENCORE] /285

Bayo invites us to pause and abandon solutionism, step back from the project of progress, and dance into a different set of questions: What does the Anthropocene teach us as a destabilizing agent that resists our taming? What happens when we unfurl into a space of slowness and relinquish human mastery to a wider cosmic net of relations?

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Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildslowing down, Anthropocene, fugitivity, fugitive spaces, the sacred, entanglement, decolonization, Yoruba mythology, relationality, intergenerational movements, queer negativity, queer failure, embodiment, nonlinearity, deterritorialize, imagination, bewilderment, grieving, mourning, ceremony, trickster spirit, poetry, dying well, allyship, Fred Moten, Karen Barad, Helena Norburg, Jack Halberstam, Stephen Jeninkson, fatherhood, unschooling, modernity, shapeshifting, compost, Donna Haraway Inspired, bayo akomolafe, Slow Study 1 Comments
Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance [ENCORE] /284
Dr. KIM TALLBEAR on Reviving Kinship and Sexual Abundance [ENCORE] /284

Dr. TallBear and Ayana confront western science’s continued appropriation of Indigenous sexuality, ancestry, and creation while unearthing our universal desires for love and belonging.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Sexual Body Liberation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildsexuality, intimacy, kinship, decolonization, decolonizing sexuality, decolonizing intimacy, decolonizing family structure, colonial project, biopolitics, genomics, Indigenous erasure, Indigenous appropriation, nonmonogamy, polyamory, monogamy, heteronormativity, nuclear family, technoscience, liberal multiculturalism, more than human kin, caretaking, caregiving, community, Donna Haraway Inspired, Right Relationship Comment
DONNA HARAWAY on Staying with the Trouble [ENCORE] /269
DONNA HARAWAY on Staying with the Trouble [ENCORE] /269

Donna invites us to wander in the colorful worlds of science fiction, play with story, and dig through the compost pile, offering up powerful tools and practices needed for humans and nonhumans alike to “live and die well together” on Earth.

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Radical Imagination, Cultural Strategy, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildtheorist, multispecies studies, feminist theory, science and technology, human exceptionalism, hyper individualism, A Cyborg Manifesto, dualisms, technology relationships, technological domination, Donna Haraway InspiredComment
Dr. PATRICIA KAISHIAN on Queer Mycology /262
Dr. PATRICIA KAISHIAN on Queer Mycology /262

Dr. Patricia Kaishian encourages us to think of mycology as a revolutionary and political practice. Diving into queer mycology, we see the ways that fungi challenge binaries of gender, family structure, and even traditional biological classification.

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Colonial Violence, Decolonization, More Than Human Kin, Climate Solutions, Climate Change, Sexual Body Liberation, Activism Allyship, Conservation Restoration, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildDr. Patricia Kaishian, Mycology, Queer, LGBTQ, Mushrooms, Foraging, Science, Ways of Knowing, Queer Science, Biodiversity, Binary-Breaking, Armenian, Queer Ecologies, Mushroom at the End of the World, Anna Tsing, Conservation, Purdue, SUNY, Queer Theory, Mycellium, Academia, Linneaus, Inquiry, Congress of Armenian Mycologists Comment
ANTONIO LÓPEZ on the Colonization of Our Attention /261
ANTONIO LÓPEZ on the Colonization of Our Attention /261

Lopez begins with the material dimensions of our digital footprint, then moves into a deeper conversation around media and tech monopolies, desensitization in media, sensory stimulation, and the correlation between fake news, climate denial, white nationalism, and petro-masculinity.

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Colonial Violence, The Cost of Capitalism, Sacrifice Zones, Multispecies Justice, Design+Strategy, Global South, Media Art, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildAntonio López, ecomedia, Mediacology: A Multicultural Approach to Media Literacy in the 21st Century, The Media Ecosystem: What Ecology Can Teach Us About Responsible Media Practice, Greening Media Education: Bridging Media Literacy with Green Cultural Citizenship, Ecomedia Literacy: Integrating Ecology into Media Education, Communications and Media Studies, mass media, Information and Communications Technology, digital information, environmental impacts of the cloud, ecological footprint of media, ecological footprint of technology, conflict minerals, the internet of things, e-waste, the global cloud, AI, data mining, platform capitalism, petro masculinity, fossil fuel industry and media, slow media, decomputerizationComment
TYSON YUNKAPORTA on Unbranding Our Mind /235
TYSON YUNKAPORTA on Unbranding Our Mind /235

Tyson calls us to unbrand our minds and deeply interrogate where we are sourcing our thoughts from, the ramifications of becoming a trauma-obsessed society, and how to identify environments for emergence.

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Colonial Violence, Cultural Strategy, Decolonization, Activism Allyship, Climate Solutions, Design+Strategy, Indigenous Sovereignty, Radical Imagination, The Cost of Capitalism, Theory Scholarship, Transition TransformationFor The WildTyson Yunkaporta, Tyson Yunkaporta podcast, Tyson Yunkaporta sand talk, Tyson Yunkaporta Wikipedia, Tyson Yunkaporta twitter, Tyson Yunkaporta quotes, sand talk how indigenous thinking, sand talk by Tyson Yunkaporta, indigenous thinking examples, indigenous systems thinking, Australia indigenous people, Australia genocide, identity politics, social media bad effects, social media bad for relationships, critiques of post-left, postmodernism, post-colonial criticismComment
Dr. CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN on the Night Sky and Liberation Discourse /228
Dr. CHANDA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN on the Night Sky and Liberation Discourse /228

Dr. Prescod-Weinstein challenges us to not fixate on our fear of a perishing night sky, but instead, look at how the night sky can be a part of liberation discourse. Recognizing this value, Dr. Prescod-Weinstein outlines the right to the night sky and what comprehensive accessibility to know and love the night sky means.

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Colonial Violence, Radical Imagination, Racial Equity Justice, The Cost of Capitalism, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildChanda Prescod Weinstein book, Chanda Prescod Weinstein twitter, Chanda Prescod Weinstein physics, Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, dark matter and dark energy, astrophysics and astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology, the disordered cosmos book, the disordered cosmos review, the disordered cosmos chanda, early universe cosmology, theoretical cosmology, colonialism in academia, system racism in education, women in stem, space colonization, space colonization pros and cons, space colonization articles, space colonization advantages, space debris 2020, space debris around earth, space debris articles, patriarchy and science, science behind imperialism, stargazing, space, physics, theoretical physics, inclusivity, space travel, storytellingComment
OLÚFÉMI O. TÁÍWÒ on Climate Colonialism and Reparations /216
OLÚFÉMI O. TÁÍWÒ on Climate Colonialism and Reparations /216

We explore climate colonialism, reparations, carbon removal, and a real “just transition” with guest Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò. Our conversation reminds us that while climate colonialism is unfurling before us, there is a myriad of tangible ways countries and movements across the so-called global North could begin making reparations.

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Colonial Violence, Climate Solutions, Design+Strategy, Climate Change, Globalization, Radical Imagination, Global South, Racial Equity Justice, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The Wildcolonialism, colonialism and imperialism, colonialism in Africa, colonialism and capital, reparations, reparations as a public health priority, identity politics, climate colonialism, green new deal, green new deal pros and cons, green new deal problems, green new deal cons, carbon removal, carbon removal technology, carbon removal tool, carbon removal companies, Olufemi O Taiwo, philosophy, constructivism, Unions, labor, Green Climate Fund, green climate fund contributions by country, green climate fund projects, green climate fund paris agreementComment
Dr. NATASHA MYERS on Growing the Planthroposcene /204
Dr. NATASHA MYERS on Growing the Planthroposcene /204

Natasha discusses the necessity of finding non-human guides, the responsibility we have to make room for plants, anthropomorphism, restoration ecology, and reconfiguring our relationship to the future.

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More Than Human Kin, Plant Intelligence, Multispecies Justice, Cultural Strategy, Deep Ecology, Radical Imagination, Theory Scholarship, Media ArtFor The WildEcology, Restoration Ecology, Becoming Sensor, Anthropocene, Planthropocene, Toronto, Indigenous Land Stewardship Circle, Botany, Sustainability, Green Technology, Meditation, High Park, Urban Forestry, Eco-Philosophy, Oak Savannahs, Nature, Apocalypse, Apocalypse Imaginary, Happy Heart Salve Bright FuturesComment
ANJALI NATH UPADHYAY, M.A.² on Radical Unlearning /190
ANJALI NATH UPADHYAY, M.A.² on Radical Unlearning /190

Anjali shares how in order to truly support liberatory work and movements, we must unlearn, otherwise, we will continue to create harm. In recognizing our illusions and perceptions, we are able to ensure that our impact and intentions are in alignment.

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Cultural Strategy, Radical Imagination, Transition Transformation, Theory ScholarshipFor The WildAnjali Nath Upadhyay, Liberation Spring, Feral Visions, Political Theory & Indigenous Politics, Cultural Studies, academic-industrial complex, non-profit industrial complex, liberation, community learning, homeschool, community-based education, land-based pedagogy, adult educationComment