Chellis Glendinning is a European-American author of creative nonfiction, licensed psychotherapist, and political activist. She is noted as a pioneer in the field of ecopsychology

Ecopsychology

Ecopsychology connects psychology and ecology. Its political and practical goals are to show humans ways of healing alienation and to build a "sane" society and a sustainable culture. Theodore Roszak is credited with coining the term in his 1992 book, The Voice of the Earth...

, a proponent of land-based culture, and a critic of technological society, having worked with such contemporaries as Jerry Mander

Jerry Mander

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, Vandana Shiva

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, Helena Norberg-Hodge

Helena Norberg-Hodge

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, and Kirkpatrick Sale

Kirkpatrick Sale

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Glendinning's relations 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.

She has written five books, as well as for journals, magazines, and newspapers including Orion, CounterPunch, ColdType: The Reader, Alternet, Tikkun, Race, Poverty and the Environment San Francisco Bay Guardian and Santa Fe New Mexican.

Glendinning was featured in the 2007 documentary What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire

What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire

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In 2007 Glendinning’s bilingual folk opera De Un Lado Al Otro, written in collaboration with ethnomusicologist Cipriano Vigil, was presented at the Lensic Performing Arts Center in Santa Fe NM. Robert Castro directed.

Glendinning graduated from the University of California, Berkeley

University of California, Berkeley

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 in social sciences in 1969, at which time she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa (Alpha of California Chapter). She received her Ph.D.

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 in psychology from Columbia Pacific University

Columbia Pacific University

Columbia Pacific University was an unaccredited nontraditional distance learning school in California. It was founded in 1978 by Richard Crews, a Harvard-trained psychiatrist, and Lester Carr, a former president of Lewis University, and operated with state approval...

 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 NM in 2000 and 2003.

In 1997 Glendinning won the Río Arriba County

Rio Arriba County, New Mexico

-2010:Whereas according to the 2010 U.S. Census Bureau:*51.6% White*0.5% Black*16.0% Native American*0.4% Asian*0.0% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander*3.3% Two or more races*28.2% Other races*71.3% Hispanic or Latino -2000:...

, 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."

Her papers are housed in the Labadie Collection

Labadie Collection

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 of the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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Books

• My Name Is Chellis and I’m in Recovery from Western Civilization. Gabriola BC Canada: New Society Publishers/New Catalyst/ Sustainability Classics, 2007; and Boston: Shambhala Publications, 1994.
• Chiva: A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade. New Society Publishers, 2005.
  • Winner of the National Federation of Press Women
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     2006 Book Award for general nonfiction.
  • Winner of the New Mexico Press Women 2006 Communications Award for general nonfiction.
  • Finalist for 2007 New Mexico Book Awards in nonfiction.
• Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Empire and the Global Economy. New Society Publishers, 2002; and Off the Map: An Expedition Deep into Imperialism, the Global Economy and Other Earthly Whereabouts. Shambhala Publications, 1999.
  • Winner of the National Federation of Press Women
    National Federation of Press Women
    The National Federation of Press Women, , founded in 1937, is a US-based organization for men and women in electronic, broadcast and print journalism....
    
     2000 Book Award for general nonfiction.
  • Winner of the New Mexico Press Women 2000 Communications Award for general nonfiction.
• A Map: From the Old Connecticut Path to the Rio Grande Valley and All the Meaning In between. Great Barrington MA: E.F. Schumacher Society, 1999.
• When Technology Wounds. New York: William Morrow, 1990.
• Waking Up in the Nuclear Age. William Morrow, 1987.

Selected Essays

• "Cuestionando la Tecnología: Si al Alambre de Fardo y No a las Torres de Microondas" in Amadao Lascár y Jesús Sepúlveda, eds., Rebeldes y Terrestres: Propuestas de Cambio y Subversión. Santiago de Chile: Mosquito Comunicaciones, 2008.
• "Cheering for Morgan Stanley," http://www.counterpunch.org, Counterpunch, November 18, 2008.
• "Wireless Mind, Gullible Mind," http://www.counterpunch.org, Counterpunch, October 10–12, 2008.
• "Technofascismo: Los Mecanismos del Totalitarianismo Inverso," Rebelión, translated by Germán Leyens, June 20, 2008.
• "Techno-Fascism: Every Move You Make," http://www.counterpunch.org Counterpunch, June 19, 2008.
• "Notes toward a Neo-Luddite Manifesto," Utne Reader, 38, no. 1 (March/April 1990): 50–53.
• "Technology, Trauma, and the Wild." In Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. edited by T. Roszak, et al., 41–54. San Francisco. Sierra Club Books
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• "La Tecnología, El Trauma, y Lo Salvaje," PanNatura. Quito de Ecuador: Fundación Sangay, 2006.
• "Cocaína No, Coca Sí," April 2006.
• “Hear Tell: Invisibility, Invasiveness, and the Cell Phone,” www.bluegreenearth.com, Spring 2002.
• “Re-membering Decolonization,” Tikkun
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• “Fear and Loathing in Los Alamos: On the Lam from the Cerro Grande Fire,” Orion, Winter 2001.
• "The Conversation We Haven’t Had: Trauma, Technology, and the Wild" in Michael Shuman and Julia Sweig, eds., Technology for the Common Good. Washington DC: Institute for Policy Studies Books, 1993.
• "Men/Women, War/Peace: A Systems Approach" (with Ofer Zur) in Mark Macy, ed., Solutions for a Troubled World. Boulder CO: Earthview Press, 1987.