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BOOKS:
- Children’s Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation: Narratives of Civilization and Wilderness. Routledge, March 2015
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- The Root of It All – introduction chapter
- Translation:
- On Colonization – Czech translation of an excerpt from the introduction chapter
- Reviews
- Reviewed and interviewed by Kathan Zerzan and John Zerzan on Anarchy Radio, Tuesday 21st April 2015
- In International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development by Sarat K. Colling, (full review HERE)
- Reviewed by Petar Jandric, Professor, Zagreb University of Applied Sciences in Anarchist Studies; Vol. 26, #1, Spring 2018 (Peer-reviewed, academic journal)
- In Counterpunch by Martin Billheimer (full review HERE)
- In SWAA Newsletter, Southwestern Anthropology Association by Hilarie Kelly (full review HERE)
- Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education. Fernwood Publishing, 17th May, 2013
- Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams – interviewed by Richard Capes for More Thought, November 2015
- Book Review by rosalind hampton, McGill Journal of Education, Vol 49, #1, 2014
- Book Tour, Tuesday, 8th October – Tuesday, 29th October, 2013
- Book Launch: Video, Sunday, 19th May, 2013
Anthropology
Writing:
- The Root of It All – introduction chapter to Children’s Literature, Domestication, and Social Foundation. March 2015
- Education as the Domestication of Inner Space in Fifth Estate, Issue 391, Spring/Summer 2014
Lectures, talks, and panels:
- Where the Wild Things Go: Anarchist Knowledge and Practice – workshop at the Montreal Anarchist bookfair, Sunday 3 pm 24th May 2015
- First there was the Word, then Came Civilisation: How Fiction Structures the Reality of Predation and Violence. A talk at Shakti Mountain Climbing gym, Montreal, Saturday, 29th June 2013
- Narratives in Science as Tales of Wilderness and Civilisation. Paper presented at the 29th Annual Qualitative Analysis Conference: Cultures of Narratives/Narratives of Culture, “Qualitative Research – Stories” section. Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s Campus, June 20-22, 2012
- A Leap into the Future Primitive: Anarcho-Primitivist Ontologies as New Directions in Anthropological Theory. Poster at the American Anthropological Association annual convention, Montreal, 17th December 2011
- Radical Sustainability, Beyond Green Capitalism: Anarcho-Primitivism, Feminism, and Christianity in a Conversation for an Endangered World – University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 1-2 April 2011
- From The Ontological Roots Of Knowledge To A New Sociology Of Being. Paper presented in the section on New Directions in Sociological Theory (TS2-A). Canadian Congress for Humanities and Social Sciences, Fredericton, Canada, Friday, 3rd June 2011: 10:30 am
- Literacy of the Oppressed: Structural Violence and Children’s Books. Lecture delivered as a guest speaker for the course EDEC 249: Global Education and Social Justice, Prof. Aziz Choudry, Department of Education, McGill University; 1st October 2009
- Conscience, Consciousness and Scientific Knowledge or the Evolution of Idiocy: Problems of Natural and Cultural Selection. Conference: PENSER LA CONSCIENCE AUJOURD’HUI: UN POINT DE VUE ANTHROPOLOGIQUE SUR LA QUESTION – annual conference, department of Anthropology, University of Montreal, 17th April 2009
Animals, Anarchism, and Critique of Civiliisation
Interviews:
written
- “The Storyteller Who Ate the World: Interview with Layla AbdelRahim“. Interviewed for Backwoods journal, Issue 2; (summer) 2018
- “How Children’s Literature Links to Narcissism and Violence“. Interviewed by Marc Bekoff for Animal Emotions, in Psychology Today; May 2018
- Czech Green Anarchy, November 2013
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- English original. A PDF pamphlet version
- Chinese translation
- in Czech translation
- in Portuguese translation
podcasts
- “A New Paradigm for a Thriving World“. Interviewed by Rodney King and Frank Forencich on the Human Animal podcast; broadcast on 12th November 2022
- “How to Disagree“. Interviewed by Aragorn! Bang for The Brilliant podcast. Recorded on 6 August 2018; broadcast on 4 September 2018
- “Education, Unschooling, and Losing Our Sense of Empathy with the World“. Interviewed by Eric Garza for A Worldview Apart podcast, 31 May 2018
- “Questioning Social Narratives“. Interviewed by Eric Garza for A Worldview Apart podcast, 13 September 2017
- Anarcho-Primitivism: Civilization, Symbolic Culture, and Revolutionary Rewilding. Interview on Revolutionary Left Radio, 23 July 2017
- On Civilisation, Anthropocentrism, India, Nuclear Weapons, Rewilding, and much more. Interviewed on Which Side podcast, 29 August 2016
- Harambe, Zoos, and the Cruel Economy of Civilization – interviewed by Ron Lester Whyte for Deep Green Philly, 7th June 2016
- “Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams“. Interviewed by Richard Capes for More Thought, November 2015
- Gorilla Radio, CFUV (University of Victoria) by Chris Cook. Monday, 7th October 2013
- Animal Voices, Vancouver by Alissa. Friday, 11th October 2013
- Doers, Makers, Thinkers, CFUV (University of Victoria) by Julian. Friday, 18th October 2013
- The Revolution Will Not Be Anthropomorphised: Civilised Knowledge and the Sabotage of Resistance – Anti-civilisation Day, Anarchist Festival in Montreal, at La Déferle, Sunday, 18 May 2013 from 1:00-3:00 pm.
- Anarchy Radio, University of Oregon, Eugene, KWVA. Tue. 7th February 2012. Wylden Freeborne introduces me at the 20th-minute mark
- The Failure of Civilized Occupy“ – Interview for Deep Green Philly on 8th December 2011. Also published on Occupy Philly Media on 10th December 201
- Primitivism 101 – on Deep Green Philly, 4th May 2011
- Civilize for Food – on BURN, 26th September 2010
- Naked Wildness – on BURN, 6th September 2010
- Open Forum discussion, titled: “Anarchy for All: Expanding the Horizons of Practice Beyond Privilege” at the “In the beginning: Anarchism, Christianity, and the roots of resistance” conference, Portland, OR 7th August 2010
- 20-minute response on Anarchy Radio on questions of racism, speciesism, and scientism in critiques of Avatar, Tuesday 26th January 2010
- Literacy of the Oppressed: Structural Violence and Children’s Books. Lecture delivered as a guest speaker for the course EDEC 249: Global Education and Social Justice, Prof. Aziz Choudry, Department of Education, McGill University; 1st October 2009
- Digby Highschool: two 45-minute talks addressed at 11th and 12th grades, 2nd September 2009
- Interview for In the Land of the Living, by Andy Lewis, issue #4, 2009
- Open Forum: Layla AbdelRahim and John Zerzan respond (total time: 1 hour and 51 minutes)
- Guest on John Zerzan’s “Anarchy Radio” at KWVA, University of Oregon, Eugene, Feb. 2009
Writing
- The Mythical Predator – a FB discussion on the nature of human beings, 5th September 2010
- Beyond the Symbolic and towards the Collapse. summer 2008
Education
Interviews, lectures, and presentations
- “The Roots of Oppression“, interviewed by Ron Lester Whyte at Deep Green Philly, Monday, 2nd November 2015
- A Radical Critique of Modern Education – a discussion at the A-space Anarchist Community Center, Philadelphia, Thursday, 30th May 2013 at 7:00 pm
- Wild Children – Domesticated Dreams: Civilization and the Birth of Education Book Launch, Video, at La Deferle, Montreal, Sunday, 19th May 2013
- Domestication, aliénation et civilisation – entretien en 4 parties par Radio Anticoloniale Dack, Coop Média de Montréal, août – septembre 2012
- Interview on education and the student strike in “Quebec – on Media-Coop. 5th September 2012
- How Ivan the Fool Defeats Civilized Pedagogies“, Brown Bag Lunch Seminar series: Community, solidarity, and popular education: Confronting the national security state. Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, 12:00pm Wednesday, 8th February 2012
- A Lullaby for the Planet: Undressing Ourselves for a Viable Parenthood. New Heaven, New Earth conference; Memphis, TN. 15th August 2009
- “Learning in the Age of the Smart Machine or the Proportionate Relationship between Intelligence and Empathy: from Case Study to a Theory of Practice in Anthropology of Education”. Hawaii International Conference on Education, Honolulu, Hawaii 4th-7th January 2009
- Conference: CHILDHOODS 2005, Oslo University, Norway. Presented 3 papers (29th June – 3rd July 2005):
- “On Objects, Love, and Objectifications” (originally published online on this website in January 2003)
- also published in The Paulinian Compass. St. Paul University; Manila: Vol. 1, Issue #2, June 2009
- also published in “THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RADICAL DISSENT“, June 2004
- Modernism and Education: Revised Perspectives on Meaning (originally published online on this website in May 2003)
- also published in The Paulinian Compass. St. Paul University; Manila: Vol. 1, Issue #3, Fall 2009
- also published in “THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF RADICAL DISSENT“, June 2004
- “On Objects, Love, and Objectifications” (originally published online on this website in January 2003)
- “In Praise of the Wild: Discussion of Jeannette Walls’ “The Glass Castle”: guest speaker at CKUT radio programme: In the Motherhood (mp3 of the programme) plus a response essay
Essays on Education:
- Kaleidoscope (creative non-fiction)
Economy and Criminology:
- Crime and Reward from an Anarcho-Primitivist Perspective – lecture at the Department of Criminology, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, B.C., Tuesday, 8th October 2013
- Qu’est-ce que l’économie civilisée? Recherche sur le principe ontologique de l’effondrement économique et écologique – a paper delivered at HEC, Montreal, Monday, 13th May 2013
On racism, sexism, speciesism, and domestication:
- Civilized Racism Part 2“ – revisiting my discussion of civilised spaces and the “open season” on Black and Brown people. Interviewed by Ron Lester Whyte, Deep Green Philly, 5th September 2014
- Trayvon Martin, Anna Brown, Shaima Alawadi and Civilized Racism” – Part 1. Discussion of the medicalisation of the oppressed and the civilised “othering” by means of constructs of illness and health. Interviewed by Ron from Deep Green Philly, 29th March 2012
- Black Talk, Protest, and Deep Song in Search of the Beloved Community – Discussing Ferguson Before and Beyond” – a guest panelist on the Off the Hour show, hosted by James Oscar at CKUT radio, McGill University, 12th December 2014
On literature and culture
Writing:
- Order and the literary rendering of chaos: children’s literature as knowledge, culture and social foundation. Doctoral dissertation, University of Montreal. An interdisciplinary examination of the intersection of humanism with anthropogenic destruction of the world. Topics: civilisation, economics, ethology, anthropology, epistemology, ontology, and other humanist constructs concerning Total Liberation, 2011
- Tell these Stories to your Children– talk at the conference: “In the beginning: Anarchism, Christianity, and the roots of resistance“, Portland, OR 6th-7th August 2010
- Genealogies of Wilderness and Domestication in Children’s Narratives: Understanding Genesis and Genetics in the Untangling of Identity. The Paulinian Compass (refereed scholarly journal), St. Paul University, Manila: July 2010
- Avatar: An Anarcho-Primitivist Picture of the History of the World. 23 December 2009
- Response to Critiques of Avatar on Questions of Scientism and Racism – text +radio 29 January 2010
- “Definitions and Implications in Children’s Books: from Christopher Robin’s Scientific Expotition with Piglets, Rabbits, and Winnie the Pooh to the Violent Science of Harry Potter and the Order of the Chosen Wizards”. Hawaii International Conference on Arts and Humanities, Honolulu, Hawaii 9th-12th January 2009
- Foucault’s Precursor: Nikolaj Nosov on Questions of Discipline and Health in Neznajka’s Trilogy. AATSEEL Annual Conference: San Francisco, 27th-30th December 2008
- Revealing and Concealing: Architecture and Knowledge in Children’s Books. Paper at Masking and Unmasking: an interdisciplinary conference, Duke University, September 2008
- “Order and Chaos: the Literary rendering of Crime and Punishment by Nikolai Nosov”. Paper delivered at the CHILDHOODS 2005 conference at Oslo University, Norway. Presented 3 papers; 29th June – 3rd July 2005
- “Crime and Punishment in Children’s Literature”. Paper delivered at the conference: Off to See the Wizard: Quests for Memory and Culture in Children’s Literature, at Monroe College, Rochester, NY, 19 March 2005
- The construction of identity in emergent literatures, B.A. honours thesis, Bryn Mawr College, May 1993
ABSTRACTS for academic presentations.
