Jeanine M. Canty
Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, is a professor of transformative studies at CIIS in San Francisco, telecommuting from Boulder, CO. Her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice, ecopsychology, and the process of worldview expansion and change. Her books include Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices, Globalism and Localization, and Returning the Self to Nature: Undoing our Collective Narcissism and Healing.
Biography
Jeanine M. Canty, PhD, is a professor and chair of the Environmental Studies Department at Naropa University, a Buddhist inspired institution, in Boulder, Colorado. A lover of nature, justice, and contemplative practice, her teaching intersects issues of social and ecological justice connected to the process of worldview expansion and positive change. She has a Ph.D. in Transformative Learning and Change from the California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS), an MA in Cultural Ecopsychology from Prescott College, and BA in International Relations from Colgate University. Courses taught include Ecopsychology, Deep Ecology, Ecological Justice: Patterns of Oppression and Healing, Indigenous Environmental Issues, and an 8-day Wilderness Solo. She is both editor and a contributor to the book Ecological and Social Healing: Multicultural Women’s Voices. Other selected works have been featured in The Wiley Handbook of Transpersonal Psychology, International Journal of Transpersonal Studies, Sustainability: The Journal of Record, Spirituality and Health Magazine, Langscape Magazine, World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research and in Shadows & Light: Theory, Research, and Practice in Transpersonal Psychology. In addition she speaks at a range of local, national, and international symposia and conferences such as National Bioneers, the International Transformative Learning Conference, Denver Green Festival, Front Range Bioneers, Wilderness Therapy Symposium and the Rocky Mountain Sustainability Summit.Education
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PhD, Transformative Learning and Change, CIIS
MA, Cultural Ecopsychology, Prescott College
BA, International Relations, Colgate University
Areas of Research / Professional Expertise
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Ecopsychology, Social Justice, Deep Ecology, Ecofeminism, Transpersonal Studies, Transformative Learning and Change, Contemplative Studies
Personal Interests
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Growing food, meditation, yoga, social and ecological justice, cross country skiing, reading, knitting, guitar, singing, dogs, river rafting, hiking, being outside
Websites
Books
Articles
Oh, Holy Night!
Published: Dec 27, 2018 by Garrison Institute, Transformational Ecology
Authors: Jeanine M. Canty
Subjects:
Environment and Sustainability
Author reflections on solstice and ecological relationships
The Liminality of Spring
Published: Apr 05, 2018 by Garrison Institute, Transformational Ecology
Authors: Jeanine M. Canty
Subjects:
Environment and Sustainability
Author reflections on spring, social movements, and earth justice
Edges of transformation: Women Crossing Boundaries between Ecological and Social
Published: Jan 01, 2016 by Langscape Magazine: Biocultural Diversity – The People’s Issue
Authors: Jeanine M. Canty
Subjects:
Gender & Sexuality, Environment and Sustainability
Author discusses the intersections between social and ecological issues within the context of healing and the work a group of fourteen multicultural women have been doing around this.
Locality to Nonlocality: Transpersonal Dimensions of Home
Published: Dec 11, 2015 by World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research
Authors: Jeanine M. Canty
Subjects:
Environment and Sustainability
This article explores the relationship between globalization and localization in context of our current ecological and social crisis.
Issue Intro: Globalism and Localization in the Context of the Ecological Crisis
Published: Dec 11, 2015 by World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research
Authors: Jeanine M. Canty
Subjects:
Environment and Sustainability
This is an intro for the special issue of World Futures: The Journal of New Paradigm Research which inquires into the relationship between globalism and localization in the context of the present ecological and social crisis.
Walking between Worlds: Holding Multiple Perspectives as a Key for Ecological...
Published: Dec 15, 2014 by International Journal of Transpersonal Studies
Authors: Jeanine M. Canty
Subjects:
Environment and Sustainability
The current ecological, social, and personal crises spark the need for radical transformation to shift from one world that is mechanistic, destructive, and egocentric to another that is relational, life affirming, and embedded in the widest understandings of interconnected selves.
Part Two: Race, Environment, and Sustainability
Published: Dec 23, 2011 by Sustainability: The Journal of Record
Authors: Jeanine M. Canty, Randall Amster, Carl Anthony, Suzanne Benally, Drew Dellinger, and Belvie Rooks
Subjects:
Environment and Sustainability
Within this roundtable dialogue, scholars, practitioners, activists, and leaders whose work deeply integrates the relationship between race and environment come together and engage crucial questions that the sustainability movement needs to understand and address.
Part One: Race, Environment, and Sustainability
Published: Oct 18, 2011 by Sustainability: The Journal of Record
Authors: Jeanine M. Canty, Randall Amster, Carl Anthony, Suzanne Benally, Drew Dellinger, and Belvie Rooks
Within this roundtable dialogue, scholars, practitioners, activists, and leaders whose work deeply integrates the relationship between race and environment come together and engage crucial questions that the sustainability movement needs to understand and address.
Linking Ecological and Social Sustainability within the Curriculum
Published: Oct 08, 2011 by Sustainability: The Journal of Record
Authors: Jeanine M. Canty
Subjects:
Environment and Sustainability
As sustainability curricula are designed and implemented within institutions of higher education, there is an opportunity to truly integrate and connect the ecological and social in a manner that shifts students’ worldviews and resulting behaviors.
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Mindful U Podcast with Jeanine Canty
By: Jeanine M. Canty
Mindful U Podcast with Jeanine Canty "Oppression of People and Oppression of Earth Go Hand in Hand" https://player.fm/series/mindful-u-at-naropa-university/jeanine-canty-environmental-justice
Jeanine Canty is a full time and professor and chair of the Environmental Studies Department at Naropa University, which includes the MA and Resilient Leadership Program and the BA Environmental Studies major. In this episode, Canty shares on the topic, ‘Oppressions of People and Oppressions of the Earth Go Hand and Hand’. Canty explains the link between social and ecological injustice and how throughout human history, the oppression of people of color has been inseparable from the oppression of the natural world. She also talks about the theoretical framework of Eco-psychology and how it can help us recognize these patterns of injustice and reconnect to our ‘ecological selves’ in order to bring about individual and environmental healing.