Chellis Glendinning

Chellis Glendinning
Born 1947, Cleveland Ohio
Alma mater University of California, Berkeley
Columbia Pacific University

Chellis Glendinning is a North American author of creative nonfiction, radio producer,[1] licensed psychotherapist (now in retirement),[2] and social-change activist. She is noted as a pioneer in the field of ecopsychology,[3] 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.[4]

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 1970´s, in particular, by the creative juxtapositions made possible by the insight that “The Personal Is Political.”

Her 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.[5]

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 [6] Los Tiempos and [7] or [8] Nueva Crónica. [9]

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.[10]

Glendinning graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in social sciences in 1969,[11] at which time she was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa (Alpha of California Chapter).[12] She received her Ph.D. in psychology from Columbia Pacific University in 1984.[13]

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,[14] and was named Best Local Writer by the Río Grande Sun of Española, New Mexico in 2000 and 2003.[15]

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."[16]

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" [17] and Second Place for Prepared Radio Report in the New Mexico Press Women Communications Awards. [18]

Her papers are housed in the Labadie Collection of the University of Michigan.[19]

Books

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Anti-War Demonstration, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 2003.

Selected essays

Totorkawa, Bolivia, 2007.

References

  1. ↑ http://kunm.org/post/un-ronconcito-en-el-cielo-stories-northern-New Mexico-part-3; and http://www.prx.org/pieces/21226-bolivia-donde-la-politica-es-indigena/comments
  2. ↑ Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor/Licensed Mental Health Counselor #1946, State of New Mexico, USA. Issue date: July 31, 1994.
  3. ↑ Theodore Roszak, Mary E. Gomes, and Allen D. Kanner, eds., Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1995, pp. 44-54, 336; JayWalljasper and Jon Spade, eds., Visionaries: People and Ideas to Change Your Life. Gabriola Island CAN: New Society Publishers, 2001, pp. 260-263; and John Mongillo and Bibi Booth, eds., Environmental Activists. Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 2001, pp. 110-114.
  4. ↑ Stephanie Mills, ed., Turning Away from Technology. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books, 1997, p. xxviii; and Z. Pascal Zachary, “Not So Fast,” Wall Street Journal, June 26, 1997.
  5. ↑ Simon Sacket's Ancestors and Descendents
  6. ↑ http://www.chellisglendinning.org/state.html
  7. ↑ http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/opiniones/columnistas/20131218/circunspeccion-en-el-tiempo-del-satelite 238840 518859.html.
  8. ↑ http://www.lostiempos.com/diario/opiniones/columnistas/20120510/tu-telefono-y-las-golondrinas_170921_359256.html?iframe=true&width=90%&height=90%
  9. ↑ http://www.nuevacronica.com/cultura/leyendo-para-una-filosofia-de-la-insubordinación-imaginacion-radical-de-pedro-suzs/
  10. ↑ http://www.sfreporter.com/stories/performing_arts_books_September_12_18/1871/ Performing Arts / Books: September 12-18
  11. ↑ University of California Berkeley, Class of 1969; and Mongillo and Booth, pp. 110-114
  12. ↑ Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of California, 1969; and Mongillo and Booth, pp. 110-114.
  13. ↑ Columbia Pacific University, San Rafael CA, Class of 1984;
  14. ↑ Laura Buelow, Chellis Glendinning and Marjorie Moore, First Times in New Mexico. Albuquerque New Mexico: Educational Foundations, Special Projects, University of New Mexico, 1990
  15. ↑ “Readers Choice 2000”/”Best Local Writer,” Río Grande Sun, August 2000; and “Readers Choice 2003”/”Glendinning Top Writer,” Río Grande Sun, 24 July 2003.
  16. ↑
  17. ↑ "http://www.newmexicobroadcasters.org/awards.php?y=2010
  18. ↑ news.unm.edu/news/unm-recognized-for-communication; or newmexicopresswomen.org/2010/06/09/2010-nmpw-communication-contest-winners/
  19. ↑ Accession Form #08-L13, University of Michigan/Special Collections Library. Date of Accession: 21 August 2008. Collection Name: Glendinning, Chellis, Papers. Processor: Will Lovick, 16 September 2008; http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/f/findaid/findaid-idx?c=sclead&idno=umich-scl-glendinning
  20. ↑ http://www.ludditeluddite1812.blogspot.com
  21. ↑ http://www.ludditeluddite1812.blogspot.com
  22. ↑ http://chellisglendinning.org/books_hyper.html