Name Chellis Glendinning Role Author | Parents Mary Hooker Glendinning | |
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Alma mater University of California, BerkeleyColumbia Pacific University Movies What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire Books Off the map, Chiva, My Name is Chellis and I'm in, When technology wounds, Waking up in the nuclear a | ||
Vermont Independence Convention 2008: Chellis Glendinning - Part 1
Chellis Glendinning on Global Sustainability
Chellis Glendinning is a North American author of creative nonfiction, radio producer, licensed psychotherapist (now in retirement), and social-change activist. She is noted as a pioneer in the field of ecopsychology, a proponent of bioregional land-based culture, and a critic of technological society having worked with such contemporaries as Jerry Mander, Vandana Shiva, Stephanie Mills, and Kirkpatrick Sale.
Contents
- Vermont Independence Convention 2008 Chellis Glendinning Part 1
- Chellis Glendinning on Global Sustainability
- Career
- Books
- Selected essays
- References
The inspiration for Glendinning´s literary explorations originally sprang from the work of U.S. scholar Lewis Mumford. Independent of both affiliation and insight, he provided an early systemic analysis of contemporary society. Glendinning´s writing has also been shaped by the themes of feminist literature in the 1970s, in particular, by the creative juxtapositions made possible by the insight that “The Personal Is Political.”
Her relations, some would claim noteworthy, include Thomas Hooker, founder of the colony of Connecticut; Dr. Frank E. Bunts, founder of the Cleveland Clinic; and the civil rights activist, her mother Mary Hooker Glendinning.
Career
She has written seven books, as well as hundreds of essays for journals, magazines, and newspapers including Orion, CounterPunch, ColdType, Race, Poverty and the Environment, and Guernica in North America. In Bolivia she writes for Le Monde Diplomatique Los Tiempos and or Nueva Crónica.
She was also featured in the 2007 documentary What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.
In 2007 Glendinning’s bilingual folk opera De Un Lado Al Otro, was presented at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe, New Mexico, directed by Robert Castro with music composed and provided by Cipriano Vigil.
Glendinning graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in social sciences in 1969, at which time she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa (Alpha of California Chapter). She received her Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia Pacific University in 1984.
Her Off the Map won the 2000 National Federation of Press Women Book Award in general nonfiction, and Chiva was honored with the same award in 2006. In 1989 she received the New Mexico Humanities Council First Times Award for Short Story Writing, and was named Best Local Writer by the Río Grande Sun of Española, New Mexico in 2000 and 2003.
In 1997 Glendinning won the Río Arriba County Zero Injustice Award for her “courageous stand in support of the customs, culture, and traditions of the Native American and Indo-Hispano people of northern New Mexico."
And in 2009 her four-part radio series, "El Rinconcito en el Cielo" aired on KUNM-FM and in 2010 received both the New Mexico Broadcasters' Association Award for Documentary Feature" and Second Place for Prepared Radio Report in the New Mexico Press Women Communications Awards.
Her papers are housed in the Labadie Collection of the University of Michigan.