Not My Green Space? White Attitudes to Black Presence in Green Spaces. An Auto-Ethnography is a Chapter published within Plüschke-Altof, Sooväli-Sepping (Eds.) (2022) Whose Green […]
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BBC World Service, The Evidence
The nature of mental health The EvidenceThe Evidence Claudia Hammond and her panel of experts address that widely-held view, even intuition, that plants and nature […]
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400 Seconds Per Podcast
This podacst series interviews with women leading hope and change in the climate emergency…in 400 seconds flat. We speak to Beth Collier, founder of Wild […]
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Royal Anthropological Institute
Anthropology and Conservation Conference 2021 P047: Producing a Black Anthropology of the Conservation field; The experiences of BIPOC ethnographers conducting research within white dominated conservation […]
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Come Hell or Come High Water
Following the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art screening of “Come Hell or High Water: The Battle for Turkey Creek” on August 19, 2021, Beth Collier […]
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Therapy for Black Girls
Plant Parenthood The Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly conversation with Dr. Joy Harden Bradford, a Licensed Psychologist in Atlanta, Georgia, about all […]
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Covid-19 and the race factor in access to green space
Black and minority ethnic people are disproportionately affected by environmental conditions which evoke stress and harm our health. In a time of global crisis and […]
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There’s a trauma in loss of connection to nature, we need to stop saying that it’s not for us
Black dismissiveness of nature isn’t just simple dislike, it belies a legacy of trauma and the interference of white supremacy. A version of this article […]
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Black Nature Narratives
Black Nature Narratives explores black perspectives on issues relating to the natural world and our relationship with nature
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Let’s say goodbye to Respectability and welcome Assertiveness
In a politics of Assertiveness our aim is to remove ourselves from the drama of being made to feel aggressive or that we need to […]
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Culture of Confinement is a Child Rights Issue
Today less than one in 10 children play regularly in green spaces, half the number of children who played outdoors a generation ago … This […]
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The challenges of urban lifestyles to well-being and the value of nature to emotional health
Urban lifestyles can leave us isolated – from people and nature – and the quality of our relationships and wellbeing suffers…there are parallels between the […]
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