Year: 2012

Outlawing ecocide for global peace – why we must all stand with Polly Higgins, the ‘lawyer for the earth’

This post was also published on hercircleezine.com, a site for women's creative art and activism. It was a means to begin to look at the key term 'ecocide' in my phd work. Update: Mon 14 May 2012: YES!!! 'The Occupy Movement demands a law of Ecocide! "We demand the creation of international environmental standards, mandatory…Read more Outlawing ecocide for global peace – why we must all stand with Polly Higgins, the ‘lawyer for the earth’

Deep sustainability and the art and politics of forests

‘I thought again of our fundamental inversion of all relatedness, of how we nearly always ask the wrong question—What can I get from this?—and so rarely the right one—What can I give back? Even when we try to learn from others, it is from the same spirit of acquisition: What can I learn from this…Read more Deep sustainability and the art and politics of forests

The Shivering Sands – notes on defining an artistic practice PhD

"It looks as if it had hundreds of suffocating people under it—all struggling to get to the surface, and all sinking lower and lower in the dreadful deeps!"  The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins, 1868, (1.1.4.39) In September 2011, I was asked to more clearly define my artistic practice and the methodologies I intended to employ to…Read more The Shivering Sands – notes on defining an artistic practice PhD