Hilary Giovale and Janine Schipper will be at Bookmans in Flagstaff, AZ for Independent Bookstore Day
Hilary Giovale and Janine Schipper will be at Bookmans in Flagstaff, AZ on Saturday, April 26 from 4:00-5:00PM to celebrate Independent Bookstore Day. The local authors will be in dialogue about their recently published books, Becoming a Good Relative and Conservation Is Not Enough. This event is free and open to the public.
Hilary Giovale will be discussing her new book Becoming a Good Relative: Calling White Settlers Toward Truth, Healing, and Repair.
In Becoming a Good Relative, Hilary Giovale discovers her identity as a ninth-generation American settler whose ancestors benefited from grants of stolen land, the stolen lives and labor of enslaved peoples, and systemic racism. She invites readers into stories of ancestral memory, intuitive knowing, relationships with water and land, grieving, truth-telling, apology, and forgiveness.
Her journey culminates with a commitment to personal reparations. Becoming a Good Relative encourages Americans of modest income levels to engage in reparative actions and giving while also recommending practical strategies for wealth redistribution.
This memoir offers remedies for the debilitating shame that can overtake white Americans when we face our peoples’ colonial past and systemic white supremacy. With accountability to historical context, it provides insight into how racial healing for white settlers can look and feel.
Becoming a Good Relative includes stories of reclaiming European ancestral memory through ancestral languages, mythology, and songs. The appendices contain historical notes, questions for reflection, practical skills and rituals, and recommendations for further reading.
The author returns all income she receives from book sales to the Decolonizing Wealth Project and Jubilee Justice.
Janine Schipper will be discussing her new book Conservation Is Not Enough: Rethinking Relationships with Water in the Arid Southwest.
Conservation Is Not Enough reconsiders the most basic assumptions about water issues in the Southwest, revealing why conservation alone will not lead to a sustainable water future. The book undertakes a thorough examination of the prevailing “conservation ethos” deeply ingrained in the culture, critically analyzing its historical roots and shedding light on its problems and inherent limitations. Additionally, it explores deep ecology and an Indigenous water ethos, offering radically different ways of understanding and experiencing water.
Using an exploratory and qualitative approach, the book draws on more than ninety-five interviews conducted over three years, revealing the complex relationships people have with water in the Southwest, and prominently features the voices of participants, effectively illustrating multiple perspectives and diverse ways of thinking about and relating to water. Schipper highlights various perspectives—including a water manager making conservation decisions, a Hopi elder emphasizing our connection to the water cycle, and a ski instructor reflecting on human-made snow—and interweaves personal experiences and reflections on her own relationship with water and conservation efforts.
Conservation Is Not Enough encourages readers to reflect on their personal connections to water and consider new possibilities, and it also urges readers to think beyond conventional conservation approaches. This book helps to transform the collective approach to water and cultivate fresh ways of engaging with and relating to water and is of great interest to scholars, students, and residents concerned with water issues in the Colorado River Basin.
The ebook edition will be made open access within three years of publication thanks to Path to Open, a program developed to bring about equitable access and impact for the entire scholarly community, including authors, researchers, libraries, and university presses around the world.