Deanna
Zantingh.
Thinking with land, story, and relationship toward more just and life-giving worlds.
Explore the scholarship ↗Biography forthcoming.
Deanna is currently reviewing the biographical introduction for this site. A fuller account of her scholarly work, research commitments, and community collaborations will be published here soon.
Story. Justice.
Questions that shape
the work.
An interdisciplinary practice attentive to the connections between people, place, institutions, and the living world.
Ecological theology
Place, treaty, ecological responsibility, and the relational worlds we inhabit.
Feminist & decolonial thought
Care ethics, colonial structures, and the possibility of different futures.
Critical suicidology
Community, healing justice, and life-promoting relations beyond individualizing models.
Publications & writing.
Verified publications and publicly available writing. Browse by format and follow original sources.
Selected bibliography · Original sources linked with each entry. The publication year for Growing Place in the Universe-ity remains to be confirmed.
Book chapters & essays.
Longer conversations on place, institutions, and the conditions for life.
Talks, audio & video.
Paying Attention, for All Our Relations
Deanna joins fellow hosts in the opening conversation of Be Attentive, Be Reasonable, Be a Good Relative.
Episode & video source ↗Reframing Togetherness with the Land
Panel contribution listed in the Canadian Theological Society annual conference program.
Read conference program ↗CMU Alumni Profile & In Gratitude
Canadian Mennonite University archival video featuring Deanna.
Watch on YouTube ↗Called to Action: Partnership Circle
With Patricia Vickers. Reflections on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's calls to action.
Watch recording ↗Is the World Cursed?
A Rocha panel with Norman Wirzba, Trevor Herriot, Rachel Krause, and Deanna Zantingh.
Listen to discussion ↗Reconciliation Is a Radical Ecological Vision of Care
Graduate Conference in Religion and Ecology, Yale University.
Read conference abstract ↗On Being Good Neighbours
A CMU Face2Face panel on urban reserves in Winnipeg.
University source ↗Possessed by the Land
A conversation with Deanna Zantingh and Willie James Jennings, interviewed by Jeff Friesen.
Read interview ↗