Writings
My main writing is the book Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life (State University of New York Press, 2002). More details on the book are available at http://www.superaje.com/~afisher.
My latest thinking is outlined in the chapter “Ecopsychology as Radical Praxis,” in Ecotherapy: Healing with Nature in Mind, edited by Linda Buzzell and Craig Chalquist (Sierra Club, 2009). This book is a follow-up to the ecopsychology reader Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, edited by Roszak, Gomes, and Kanner (Sierra Club, 1995).
I am working on a second book, tentatively entitled The Society of Nature: An Ecopsychological Vision of Humans, Nature, and Society.
I am also currently poking away at an article on the methodological, conceptual, and political challenges that ecopsychology faces. I wish to counter the impression that ecopsychology is a light-weight field or simply a therapeutic movement. To me, ecopsychology is best thought of as a form of psychological politics aimed at creating the subjective conditions for an ecological society. This characterization stretches psychology into intellectual and political territory it normally avoids.
Other articles I have written include the following:
Fisher, Andy. “To Praise Again: Phenomenology and the Project of Ecopsychology.” Spring Journal 75 (2006): 153-174.
Fisher, Andy. “Ecopsychology.” Encyclopedia of Religion and Nature, ed. Bron Taylor and Jeffrey Kaplan. Bristol: Continuum, 2005.
Fisher, Andy. “Toward a More Radical Ecopsychology.” Alternatives Journal 22.3 (1996): 20-26.
Teaching
I teach an intensive course on ecopsychology every summer at the University of Vermont. Details on the course can be found here.
I also plan to offer courses out of Jill’s and my house in Brooke Valley, when the time is right. I think the production of knowledge will in the coming decades be an increasingly local or regional activity. I am hoping to experiment with new forms of education in this regard.
I am open to other teaching possibilities (though I am not willing to get on an airplane).