Living in Complex Colonial Contexts with Lucy O’Hagan || The Rewilding Podcast
Today, my guest is Lucy O’Hagen, the founder and head of Wild Awake! Ireland. I’ve followed Lucy’s work for several years and continue to feel deeply inspired and in awe of the programs that she creates. I’ve been wanting to interview Lucy for some time now. Firstly to elevate her school, but also, while our organizations are similar in style and content, the cultural and historical context in which they sit is very different. This is something I find interesting and wanted to know more about. If rewilding is to be widely appealing, we need to understand the multiple contexts that make it look and feel different so that we can understand how to appropriately rewild in these contexts. One that stands out to me and is colonialism and how it affects different groups and demographics around the world, and how this influences rewilding. This is an area that Lucy and I explore in this episode. Enjoy!
Lucy O’Hagen
WildAwake! Ireland (website) http://wildawake.ie/
Instagram https://www.instagram.com/wildawakeireland/?hl=en
Facebook https://www.facebook.com/NatureskillsIreland/
Lucy’s Inspirations:
Last Child in the Woods by Richard Louv http://richardlouv.com/books/last-child/
Forest School https://www.forestschoolassociation.org/what-is-forest-school/
8 Shields http://8shields.org/about/
Circle of Life Rediscovery (https://www.circleofliferediscovery.com/)
Woodcraft School (https://www.woodcraftschool.co.uk/)
Lynx Vilden (https://www.lynxvilden.com/)
Braiding Sweetgrass https://milkweed.org/book/braiding-sweetgrass
Links to add to our conversation:
What is Settler Colonialism?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settler_colonialism
Irish Travelers Q&A: What does ethnic recognition mean for Irish Travellers?
Original Instructions
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Original-Instructions/Melissa-K-Nelson/9781591430797
Tending the Wild by M. Kat Anderson
https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520280434/tending-the-wild
The word-hoard: Robert Macfarlane on rewilding our language of landscape
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/feb/27/robert-macfarlane-word-hoard-rewilding-landscape
Irish Language Learning Game
Irish Gods & Mythology
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuatha_D%C3%A9_Danann
https://www.connollycove.com/celtic-gods-goddesses-ancient-ireland/