Capitalist Agriculture and the Global Bee Crisis
I’m excited to announce that I wrote a book! The book, published by Routledge, is a political ecology of pollination in which I argue that capitalist agriculture is the main…
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Pollinator People dissertation
Exciting news! I have completed my PhD dissertation “Pollinator People: an ethnography of bees, bee advocates and possibilities for multispecies commoning in Toronto and London, ON“. You can read it…
Pollinator People: PhD Public Lecture
If you have been following my work, you may be interested in attending a virtual public lecture of my PhD dissertation. Please email for zoom details – rebecca.a.ellis@gmail.com
On hiatus
Hi Everyone, You may have noticed, but I am on hiatus from the blog and podcast. Over the next few months, I will be completing my PhD, starting a herb…
Permaculture for the People PODCAST!
I know it’s been very quiet here at the Permaculture for the People blog. I have spent much of the spring and summer doing fieldwork for my PhD research. Fieldwork…
Happy New Year!!
2017 was a difficult time for many people as well as for the Earth and her non-human inhabitants. We witnessed the intensification of climate chaos through hurricanes, wildfires, floods,…
Women’s Strike 2017
I made a video about why I participated in the women’s strike on March 8, focusing especially on the struggles of working women. It didn’t get shared for the media…
Permaculture and activism, part 1
I am working on a presentation about permaculture as a social and environmental justice movement for this amazing conference Organizing Equality. For this presentation I have been doing some research…
The Re-enchantment 