Jan Goodey

Oct 23, 2024 | resurgence.org | Susan Clark |Yasmin Dahnoun |Jan Goodey |Beth Parkes

In this issue of Resurgence & Ecologist, we explore the meaning and experience of deep listening. The more we listen, the more we learn from the stories we hear back. We introduce the pioneering work of Pauline Oliveros who recorded the ambient sounds around her deep in a cave, and who coined the term ‘Deep Listening’ as a practice.

Oct 20, 2023 | resurgence.org | Jan Goodey

As the climate emergency hits ever harder, the need to bring more groups together in a broader coalition means that younger activists are becoming even more intent on sweeping away the ineptitude and double-dealing of profiteering governance that seeks to pacify people using the divide-and-rule politics of yesteryear. Just Stop Oil (JSO), This is Rigged and other actors are bringing accountable and non-accountable nonviolent direct action to counter this.

Oct 20, 2023 | resurgence.org | David Midgley |Yasmin Dahnoun |Jan Goodey |Rashi Goel

In this special themed issue, we tackle eco-anxiety and explore ways in which we can navigate these difficult feelings. We examine too the new idea of ‘solastalgia’ which takes the concept of eco-anxiety a step further to examine the lived experience of dealing with the impacts of climate change. In the Ecologist pages Rashi Goel reports on a restoration project that is bringing an arid desert wasteland, near the Indian city of Jodhpur, back to a place that is now teeming with life.

Apr 24, 2023 | resurgence.org | Jan Goodey

What’s the lived experience of a short spell in prison? For an environmental activist sentenced to nine months (reduced to six because of a ‘guilty’ plea) for resisting state power, and fighting for a cleaner future to avoid the worst ravages of climate change, how does it fall? Three jails, nine cellmates and two and a half months’ jail time is no big thing – it’s a brief stint. In Iran or Mexico, you’d be looking at 100% worse conditions, crammed cells with higher tariffs, and possible death.