Table of contents:
NON-FICTION:
Anthropology
- Order and the literary rendering of chaos: children’s literature as knowledge, culture and social foundation – cross-disciplinary research on the intersection of humanism with anthropogenic destruction of the world that spans ethology, anthropology, epistemology, ontology, and other humanist constructs, 2011.
- The Mythical Predator – a discussion on the nature of human beings, 5th September 2010
- “Beyond the Symbolic and Towards the Collapse” - Introduction to John Zerzan’s series of conferences and workshops in Montreal, May 2008
On childhood, parenthood and learning:
- On Objects, Love, and Objectifications. The Paulinian Compass (refereed scholarly journal), St. Paul University, Manila: Issue #2: June 2009
- Modernism and Education: Revised Perspectives on Meaning, Value and Practice. The Paulinian Compass (refereed scholarly journal), St. Paul University, Manila: Issue #3: November 2009
- Kaleidoscope (creative non-fiction)
On literature and culture:
- 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: Vol. 1, No. 4; July 2010
- Response to Critiques of Avatar on Questions of Scientism and Racism – text plus radio talk
Guest speaker:
- The Failure of Civilized Occupy – Interview for Deep Green Philly on 8th December 2011 . Excerpt submitted for Occupy Philly Media on 10th December 2011
- “Primitivism 101“ on Deep Green Resistance Philly, 4th May 2011.
- “Civilize for Food” on BURN, 26th September 2010.
- “Naked Wildness” on BURN, 6th September 2010.
- “Tell these Stories to your children” – presented at the conference “In the beginning: Anarchism, Christianity, and the roots of resistance“, Jesus Radicals Conference, Portland, OR 6th August 2010.
- Proposed, presented, and led the Open Forum discussion, titled: “Anarchy for All: Expanding the Horizons of Practice Beyond Privilege” shared with Nekeisha Alexis-Baker, John Zerzan, and partly with Wes Howard-Brook “In the beginning: Anarchism, Christianity, and the roots of resistance” conference, Portland, OR 7th August 2010.
- Respondent to “Race, Racism, and the Nation-State: A Christian-Anarchist Perspective” presentation by Nekeisha Alexis-Baker, Jesus Radicals Conference, Portland, OR; 6th August 2010.
- 20 minute response on Anarchy Radio on questions of racism, speciesism, and scientism in critiques of Avatar, Tuesday 26th January, 2010.
- A Lullaby for the Planet: Undressing Ourselves for a Viable Parenthood. New Heaven, New Earth conference; Memphis, TN. 15th August 2009
For a review, see issue 4 of In the Land of the Living by Andy Lewis
- Open Forum: Layla AbdelRahim and John Zerzan respond (total time: 1hour and 51 minutes).
- Interviewed by Andy Lewis for Issue #4 of In the Land of the Living
- Guest on John Zerzan’s “Anarchy Radio” at KWVA, University of Oregon, Eugene NEW! Feb. 2009
- 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
FICTION:
- Kaleidoscope (creative non-fiction)
READING LIST:
Books definitely worth reading
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Hola Layla,
We were happy to get to know you a little in Albuquerque.
I am particularly interested in the northward movement of growing regions due to climate change. My NY sustainable hardwood forestry/ edible forest project on 120 acres is using climate contingency ecological design approaches to restoration and pre-planting of the forest in preparation for all conceivable rapid change scenarios. I have also been checking out the area around southern Hudson Bay and the shift of hardwood forest types northward. If you happen upon any interesting practical work or publications on that, please let me know.
We hope to meet up again one day. I do my forest work in NY for two weeks every spring and autumn, although not when the baby arrives this coming autumn. All the best, Patrik
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Hi Layla,
I am a big fan of your work and ideas. I am curious about a study you referenced in your Deep Green Philly interview. You mentioned a Finnish economist that looked into the economics of technology etc. It sounded really cool and it is something I’ve thought about looking into myself.
Could you send me the information for the study?
Thanks!
Luke Byrnes
Thank you for your comment, Luke.
The referenced study/life/auto-ethnographer is Lasse Nordlund: http://www.ymparistojakehitys.fi/susopapers/Lasse_Nordlund_Foundations_of_Our_Life.pdf
If you are interested for an indepth discussion of his work, I contextualise and discuss it at length in my research, entitled: “Order and the Literary Rendering of Chaos: Children’s Literature as Knowledge, Culture, and Social Foundation” available in PDF at the library of the University of Montreal (you can find a link to it here: http://layla.miltsov.org/summary/ ).
All the best,
L.