Resources & Further Reading (forever under construction)
Misc.
(not an exhaustive list, just some helpful starting places that have been influential to Queer Nature, or are adjacent to our work(s), and/or that we think are ‘classics’ in this realm)
Jessica Hernandez, Ph.D., Fresh Banana Leaves: Healing Indigenous Landscapes through Indigenous Science
Catriona Sandilands — Essay: Unnatural Passions? Notes Towards a Queer Ecology
Marisol de la Cadena, Earth Beings: Ecologies of Practice Across Andean Worlds
Dennis Martinez — Indigenous ecology / concept of “kin-centric”
Enrique Salmón - (Also popularized the concept of “kin-centricity”) Book: Iwígara: The Kinship of Plants and People, American Indian Ethnobotanical Traditions and Science
Dr. Carolyn Finney, Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African-Americans to the Great Outdoors
Richard Prum, the Evolution of Beauty
Vandana Shiva - Critique of Agribusiness / Impact of Globalization on ecosystems and food systems, ecofeminist activist/physicist/badass, writes on global & transnational environmental justice, climate justice. She has a great interview with For the Wild podcast and countless amazing books published.
Robin Wall Kimmerer (Potawatomi / Anishinaabe) - Indigenous perspectives on botany & Western science, books: Braiding Sweetgrass & Gathering Moss, essay: “Why Nature Needs a New Pronoun”
Linda Hogan (Chickasaw) - Introductory Chapter in Pt 1 of The Handbook of Contemporary Animism, ed. Graham Harvey, Routledge 2013.
Dr. Kim Tallbear - kinship beyond settler paradigms, All My Relations podcast episode: “Decolonizing Sex”
ed. Camille T. Dungy, Black Nature: Four Centuries of African-American Nature Poetry
Anna Tsing - The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins
Donna Haraway - Staying with the Trouble, Making Kin Not Population
Dr. Joan Roughgarden, Evolution’s Rainbow: Diversity, Gender, and Sexuality in Nature and People
Susan Stryker — Essay: “My Words to Victor Frankenstein Above the Village of Chamounix: Performing Transgender Rage”
David Abram - ecophilosophy, “new animism,” The Spell of the Sensuous
Mark David Spence, Dispossessing the Wilderness: Indian Removal and the Making of the National Parks
Dan Flores, Coyote America: A Natural and Supernatural History
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice
Carla Bergman and Nick Montgomery, Joyful Militancy: Building Thriving Resistance in Toxic Times
Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, & The Weird and the Eerie
Macarena Gomez-Barris, The Exctractive Zone: Social Ecologies and Decolonial Perspectives
Karla McLaren, The Language of Emotions: What Your Feelings are Trying to Tell You
Ann Cvetkovich, Depression: A Public Feeling
Teya Brooks Pribac, Enter the Animal: Cross Species Perspectives on Grief and Spirituality
Jason A Josephson-Storm, The Myth of Disenchantment
Keith Basso, Wisdom Sits in Places
Amanda Montell, Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
Donovan Schaefer, Religious Affects: Animality, Evolution, and Power
M.R. O’Connor, Wayfinding: The Science and Mystery of How Humans Navigate the World
Tracking / Field Guides
Practical Tracking by Liebenberg, Elbroch, and Luuow (a great how-to text, not a field guide)
Tracking and the Art of Seeing by Paul Rezendes
Mammal Tracks & Sign of North America, by Elbroch and McFarland
The Art of Tracking: The Origin of Science by Louis Liebenberg
Behavior of North American Mammals, Elbroch
Bird Tracks & Sign by Elbroch
Skulls by Elbroch
Bird Feathers by Scott and McFarland
McFarland, Moskowitz, Monjello. Petersen’s Field Guide to North American Bird Nests
What the Robin Knows by Jon Young
All/Any of David Allen Sibley’s Guides (Mostly Bird Guides)
Tracks and Sign of Reptiles and Amphibians, Filip Tkaczyk
Tracks and Sign of Insects and other Invertebrates, Eiseman and Charney
Kim Cabrera “the Bear Tracker",” (online resource)
Sue Morse’s organization Keeping Track (Vermont)
Naturetracking.com - Lots of track & sign documentation by Jonah Evans
iTrack by Jonah Evans (app)
Extensive Peer-reviewed Tracking Literature List on Kersey’s (@ Original Wisdom) website
Other Naturalist Studies / Natural Hx
Mathews, Cascadia Revealed: A Guide to the Plants, Animals, and Geology of the Pacific Northwest Mountains
Moore, Medicinal Plants of the Mountain West
Pojar & MacKinnon, Plants of the Pacific Northwest Coast
Tom Wessels, Forest Forensics
Mark Elbroch, The Cougar Conundrum: Sharing the World with a Successful Predator
Medicine & Survival
Deep Survival by Laurence Gonzales (not a how-to guide)
The Herbal Medic by Sam Coffman
Remote and Austere Medicine Field Guide for Practitioners by CoROM