nonfiction
On 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 FB discussion on the nature of human beings, 5th September 2010
* Beyond the Symbolic and towards the Collapse. summer 2008
On childhood, parenthood and learning:
* On Objects, Love, and Objectifications
* Modernism and Education: Revised Perspectives on Meaning, Value and Practice
* Kaleidoscope (creative non-fiction)
On literature and culture:
* “Tell these Stories to your Children” a 90 minutes shared panel with biblical scholar Wes Howard-Brook at the conference: “In the beginning: Anarchism, Christianity, and the roots of resistance“, Portland, OR 6th-7th August 2010.
* 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: July 2010
* Avatar: An Anarcho-Primitivist Picture of the History of the World. 23 December 2009
* Response to Critiques of Avatar on Questions of Scientism and Racism – text +radio 29 January 2010
* Reflections on Red Delicious: methods and forms in thinking human and literary experience
* The construction of identity in emergent literatures
On travel:
Guest speaker:
Abstracts for academic presentations.
Talks, Interviews, Lectures, and Academic Presentations:
- “Treyvon Martin, Anna Brown, Shaima Alawadi and Civilized Racism” – discussion of the medicalisation of the oppressed and the civilised “othering” by means of constructs of illness and health. Interviewed by Ron from Deep Green Philly, 29th March 2012.
- “How Ivan the Fool Defeats Civilized Pedagogies“, Brown Bag Lunch Seminar series: Community, solidarity, and popular education: Confronting the national security state. Department of Integrated Studies in Education, McGill University, 12:00pm Wednesday, 8th February, 2012.
- Anarchy Radio, University of Oregon, Eugene, KWVA. Tue. 7th February 2012. Wylden Freeborne introduces me on the 20th minute mark.
- “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 an 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.
* 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) NEW!
* Open Forum: Layla AbdelRahim and John Zerzan respond (total time: 1hour and 51 minutes) NEW!
* Interviewed by Andy Lewis for Issue #4 of In the Land of the Living NEW!
* Guest on John Zerzan’s “Anarchy Radio” at KWVA, University of Oregon, Eugene NEW! Feb. 2009
* Guest speaker at CKUT radio programme: In the Motherhood discussing “The Glass Castle” by Jeannette Walls (mp3 of the programme)
