{"id":9211,"date":"2017-05-05T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T20:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=9211"},"modified":"2017-05-05T15:06:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T20:06:29","slug":"integral-ecologies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2017\/05\/05\/integral-ecologies\/","title":{"rendered":"Integral ecologies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to see that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunypress.edu\/p-6390-the-variety-of-integral-ecologi.aspx\">The Variety of Integral Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Planetary Era<\/a>,\u00a0an anthology co-edited by Sam Mickey, Sean Kelly, and Adam Robbert, has finally been published by SUNY Press. It is, to my knowledge, the first scholarly anthology that both\u00a0assesses the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.shambhala.com\/integral-ecology.html\">Integral Ecology<\/a>\u00a0developed by Sean Esbjorn-Hargens and Michael Zimmerman from Ken Wilber&#8217;s integral theory (examined in a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv?s=integral+ecology+wilber\">series of posts and cross-blog discussions<\/a> here) and, at the same time, proposes a wider set of reference points for the very idea of integral ecology (or ecolo<em>gies<\/em>, rather). The editors&#8217; introduction is excellent and many of the chapters look very good. Congrats to the editors!<\/p>\n<p>My own chapter is a development of a paper I had been invited to give\u00a0at UC Davis&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/environmentsandsocieties.ucdavis.edu\/\">Environments and Societies<\/a>\u00a0colloquium series. Much of it\u00a0can be\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?hl=en&amp;lr=lang_en&amp;id=Mki8DgAAQBAJ&amp;oi=fnd&amp;pg=PA257&amp;dq=ivakhiv&amp;ots=Cb_qra4bcF&amp;sig=yJdgp4Cn8q2pUQ5FS5T3uxyurHc#v=onepage&amp;q=ivakhiv&amp;f=false\">read at the book&#8217;s Google page<\/a>. It&#8217;s also woven into the\u00a0book I&#8217;m currently finishing up. More on that soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m happy to see that The Variety of Integral Ecologies: Nature, Culture, and Knowledge in the Planetary Era,\u00a0an anthology co-edited by Sam Mickey, Sean Kelly, and Adam Robbert, has finally been published by SUNY Press. It is, to my knowledge, the first scholarly anthology that both\u00a0assesses the Integral Ecology\u00a0developed by Sean Esbjorn-Hargens and Michael Zimmerman [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[688977],"tags":[550,17856],"class_list":["post-9211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geo_philosophy","tag-integral-ecology","tag-integral-theory"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4IC4a-2oz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8311,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2015\/06\/18\/the-many-ecologies-of-laudato-si\/","url_meta":{"origin":9211,"position":0},"title":"The many ecologies of Laudato Si","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"June 18, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Now that Laudato Si, the Papal Encyclical \"On Care for Our Common Home,\" is available for all to read, the punditocracy can debate it to their hearts' content. 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It's a 36-chapter mega-volume that tries to define the field and lay out some of its most exciting\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Eco-culture&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Eco-culture","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/category\/ecoculture\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/files\/2023\/08\/image.png?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4509,"url":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2011\/05\/31\/integral-ecology-schedule\/","url_meta":{"origin":9211,"position":3},"title":"Integral Ecology schedule","author":"Adrian J Ivakhiv","date":"May 31, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"The Integral Ecology reading group schedule has been announced, with Michael at Archive Fire leading the charge (with the announcement; Adam at Knowledge Ecology with the actual hosting). 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