Mentions

“Everyone and everything connects” ➡

“People did not define themselves in terms of their individuality, but in terms of group affiliation. Basic to their thinking and knowing was mutuality, not separateness.” (Mel, 2002, p. 3, as cited in Eggins and Papoutsaki, 2016)

References

Thomas, V., Eggins, J., & Papoutsaki, E. (2016). Relational Accountability in Indigenizing Visual Research for Participatory Communication. Sage Open, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1177/2158244015626493

deep ecology

The Concept

A philosophy of ecocentrism in which every living thing has inherent value, and asserts that humans are part of nature rather than superior and separate from it. (1)

Notes

Critiqued as overly broad and vulnerable to being co-opted by eco-fascists (eg endorsing population reduction)

Resources

What Is Deep Ecology? Philosophy, Principles, and Criticism

Mentions

“If a psychological theory is not true ecologically, it is not true. That is, if it does not apply equally well to plants and chipmunks and bacteria, it isn’t foundationally true.” (Stephen Buhner) ➡
“By the late twentieth century in U.S. scientific culture, the boundary between human and animal is thoroughly breached […] “language, tool use, social behaviour, mental events - nothing really convincingly settles the separation of human and animal.” ➡
“connection across the discredited breach of nature and culture” ➡