Between Complicity and Integrity

Nora Timmerman, PhD is a teacher/scholar, parent, organizer, gardener, dancer, and desert rat who works as Associate Teaching Professor in Sustainable Communities at Northern Arizona University. She loves queer, liberatory politics and works at the intersection of activism and organizing, ecological justice, and education.

List of Figures – Preface – Acknowledgments – Encountering Complicity, Questioning Integrity – Seeking and Sketching Stories Through Portraiture – David Greenwood – Madhu Suri Prakash – Ray Barnhardt – Educator Vignettes – Lessons on Integrity – So Much Is Possible – List of Index Terms.

This delightful book, Between Integrity and Complicity, is an environmental educator's manifesto on how to live well in relation to communities of others. The stories call on us to do more acting (with inevitable missteps) and less worrying. The author skillfully untangles the roots of complicity, integrity and suffering to show us the colourfully varied microcosm of ecological and social renewal, perseverance, and possibility. This book honours listening to the world in all its myriad ways-it is a found treasure. -Leesa Fawcett, PhD, Environmental and Urban Change, Coordinator of Environmental & Sustainability Education, York University

This book explores the existential journeys of leading environmental educators and scholars through illuminating portraits and vignettes in a thoughtfully nuanced manner. It is a timely and notable contribution to the literature.
—Greg Lowan-Trudeau, PhD, Associate Professor of Education, University of Calgary

This delightful book, Between Integrity and Complicity, is an environmental educator’s manifesto on how to live well in relation to communities of others. The stories call on us to do more acting (with inevitable missteps) and less worrying. The author skillfully untangles the roots of complicity, integrity and suffering to show us the colourfully varied microcosm of ecological and social renewal, perseverance, and possibility. This book honours listening to the world in all its myriad ways—it is a found treasure.
—Leesa Fawcett, PhD, Environmental and Urban Change, Coordinator of Environmental & Sustainability Education, York University