Becoming Ecological

Derek Gladwin is an Associate Professor of Language and Literacy Education at the University of British Columbia, where he is also a Faculty Associate with the Institute for Resources, Environment, and Sustainability.Kedrick James is a Professor of Language and Literacy Education and Director of the School of Education at the University of British Columbia Okanagan.

"Becoming Ecological reminds us that social revolutions can be set in motion simply by changing the stories we tell about our place in the world. The book left me with a strange and unfamiliar feeling: Optimism." - Marcia Bjornerud, author of Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World and Turning to Stone: Discovering the Subtle Wisdom of Rock "If we’re going to face up to the trouble around and ahead of us, if we’re going to find the kinds of work worth doing, then the way we use language matters. This book is an invitation to get back into conversation with the world, to set words in movement in ways that shift attention, and to show up as creatures who still have a part to play in the ongoingness of life." - Dougald Hine, author of At Work in the Ruins "An invitation to open up your mind–and perhaps the world's possibilities–by reimagining how things might work. Words matter!" - Bill McKibben, author of Here Comes the Sun "This is the work – the soul work – I’ve been awaiting for decades, genuine environmental humanities. Derek Gladwin and Kedrick James get right down to it from page one of this superb book, which centers decolonial group dialogue as a wonderful, in fact as the format for facing the terrible issues of the age. I’m with Freud: groups all have NPD unless you work on them really hard. This book models the hard work necessary to achieve a just politics at planet scale. At long last there’s a book that gets it spot on: to invert that seventies phrase, think locally – act globally." - Timothy Morton, Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice University

• Prefacing 1. Discoursing2. Becoming3. Listening4. Relating5. Ingesting6. Composting7. Unsettling8. Storying9. Witnessing10. FuturingReader’s Guide AcknowledgementsEndnotes and References Index