Living Waters Readings
The following readings are available online and provide an introduction to the perspective of the Living Waters inquiries
Freya Mathews. "On Desiring Nature." Indian Journal of Ecocriticism 3 (2010).
Stephan Harding Interview
Peter Reason (with John Heron). "The Practice of Co-operative Inquiry: Research with Rather Than on People." In Handbook of Action Research: The Concise Paperback Edition, edited by Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury, 144-54. London: Sage Publications, 2005.
Andreas Weber. "Being Nature." Humans and Nature (2014). https://www.humansandnature.org/being-nature.
Andreas Weber. "The Enlivenment Manifesto: Politics and Poetics in the Anthropocene." Kosmos (2016)..
Wooltorton, S., Poelina, A., Collard, L., Horwitz, P., Harben, S., & Palmer, D. (2020). Becoming family with place. Resurgence & ecologist, 322(September/October), 34-35. Retrieved from
The following readings explore the perspective of the workshop in more depth.
Stephan Harding, Animate Earth. Foxhole, Dartington: Green Books, 2009.
Freya Mathews The Dao of Civilization: A Letter to China. London and New York: Anthem Press. 2023
Freya Mathews, “Living Cosmos Panpsychism” in William Seager (ed), Routledge Handbook on Panpsychism, Routledge, New York, 2019.
Freya Mathews, “Panpsychism: Position Statement”, “First Response” and “Second Response” (3 separate chapters) in Graham Oppy and Nicholas Trakakis (eds), Inter-religious Philosophical Dialogues, Routledge, 2017.
Freya Mathews, “Invoking the Real: from the Specular to the Ontopoetic” in Arran Gare and Wayne Hudson (eds), For a New Naturalism, Telos Press, New York, 2017
Freya Mathews, “The World Hidden within the World: a Conversation on Ontopoetics”, The Trumpeter 23, 1, 2007
Freya Mathews, For Love of Matter: A Contemporary Panpsychism, SUNY Press, Albany, 2003
Freya Mathews. "The Merri Creek: To the Source of the Given." In Reinhabiting Reality: Towards a Recovery of Culture. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2005.
Peter Reason and John Heron. A Short Guide to Co-operative Inquiry (1998).
Reason, Peter and Sarah Riley. "Cooperative Inquiry: An Action Research Practice." In Qualitative Psychology: A Practical Guide to Research Methods, edited by Jonathan Smith. London: Sage Publications, 2015.
Peter Reason (with John Heron). "Extending Epistemology with Co-Operative Inquiry." In Sage Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice, edited by Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury, 366-80. London: Sage Publications, 2008.
Peter Reason (with Hilary Bradbury). "Inquiry and Participation in Search of a World Worthy of Human Aspiration." In Handbook of Action Research: Participative Inquiry and Practice, edited by Peter Reason and Hilary Bradbury, 1-14. London: Sage Publications, 2001.
Peter Reason (with Jacqueline Kurio). “Voicing Rivers through Ontopoetics: A Co-Operative Inquiry." River Research and Applications, Special Issue: Voicing Rivers (2021).
Peter Reason (with Sarah Gillespie) The Teachings of Mistle Thrush and Kingfisher. Australian Journal of Environmental Education. Special Issue Indigenous Philosophy in Environmental Education: Relearning How to Love, Feel, Hear, and Live with Place (2023)
Weber, Andreas. Matter and Desire. An Erotic Ecology. White River Junction: Chelsea Green, 2017.
Weber, Andreas. Biology of Wonder. Aliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Press.
Weber, Andreas. Enlivenment. A Poetics for the Anthropocene. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2019. (pdf of the original 2013 version: [ADD WEB LINK].
Weber, Andreas. Nourishing Community in Pandemic Times. Heinrich Boell Foundation India, 2020, [ADD WEB LINK WHEN PUBLISHED]
Weber, Andreas. “Family Tree”. The Nature of Cities, 2020 [ADD WEB LINK WHEN PUBLISHED]
Weber, Andreas. Sharing Life. Animism as Ecopolitical Practice. Berlin: Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, 2020, in preparation.
Poelina, A., Wooltorton, S., Harben, S., Collard, L., Horwitz, P., & Palmer, D. (2020). Feeling and hearing Country. PAN: Philosophy Activism Nature(15), 6-15.
Wooltorton, S., Poelina, A., & Collard, L. (2021). River relationships: For the love of rivers. River Research and Applications, Special Issue: Voicing Rivers (Early view). doi:10.1002/rra.3854 -
RiverOfLife, M., Unamen Shipu, R. R., Poelina, A., Wooltorton, S., Guimond, L., & Sioui Durand, G. (2021). Hearing, voicing and healing: Rivers as culturally located and connected. River Research and Applications(Special Issue: Voicing Rivers). doi:10.1002/rra.3843 -
Wooltorton, S., Collard, L., & Horwitz, P. (2019). Living water: groundwater and wetlands in Gnangara, Noongar boodjar. PAN: Philosophy, activism, nature(14), 5-23.
Wooltorton, S., Collard, L., & Horwitz, P. (2017). The Land Still Speaks. Ni, Katitj! PAN: Philosophy, activism, nature(13), 2-15.