The roots of the medicine tree: a land justice reading list
Jessica
On Thursday October 1st we're thrilled to be welcoming award-winning writer, illustrator and land-justice campaigner Nick Hayes for the Edinburgh launch of The Medicine Tree - an extraordinary exploration of the battle between ownership and belonging, and a tale of community, exploitation and recovery.
Nick will be in conversation with Nadia Shaikh, a land justice campaigner and co-director of the Right to Roam campaign, and we hope to see you there!
The event is, of course, an excellent opportunity for us to pull together a list of our favourite recommendations on land justice, from near and far, from Scotland to Australia, Mexico and Palestine, from the present to the roots of history.
Tickets for the event are here!
Linked Books
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- The Medicine Tree
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- Nick Hayes
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- The Book of Trespass : Crossing the Lines that Divide Us
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- Hayes, Nick
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- Land for What? Land for Whom? : Senses of Place and Conflict in the Scottish Highlands
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- VandeSteeg, Bonnie
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- Braiding Sweetgrass : Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
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- Kimmerer, Robin Wall
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- Palestinian Walks : Notes on a Vanishing Landscape
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- Shehadeh, Raja
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- With the Land: Reflections on Land Work and Ten Years of the Landworkers' Alliance
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- Landworkers' Alliance
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- Land Power : Who Has It, Who Doesn't, and How That Determines the Fate of Societies
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- Albertus, Michael
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- By the Fire We Carry : The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on Native Land
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- Nagle, Rebecca
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- Decolonizing Conservation : Global Voices for Indigenous Self-Determination, Land, and a World in Common
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- Dawson, Ashley, Longo, Fiore, International, Survival
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- Who Owns England? : How We Lost Our Land and How to Take it Back
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- Shrubsole, Guy
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- The Poor Had No Lawyers : Who Owns Scotland and How They Got it
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- Wightman, Andy
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- As Long as Grass Grows : The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock
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- Gilio-Whitaker, Dina
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- Dark Emu : Aboriginal Australia and the birth of agriculture
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- Pascoe, Bruce
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- Companeras : Zapatista Women's Stories
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- Hilary Klein
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- Unearthed : On race and roots, and how the soil taught me I belong
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- Ratinon, Claire
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- Strangers : Essays on the Human and Nonhuman
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- Tamás, Rebecca