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A new article on REDWeb - "Technology and (dis0empowerment: A call to technologists"
by Pallav Das 01 Oct '22

01 Oct '22

Friends, A new article, "Technology and (dis)empowerment: A call to technologists" has been uploaded on the Radical Ecological Democracy website. https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/technology-and-disempowerment-a-call… Could technology become an unambiguous force of social good, and help usher in a more equitable and fairer ecosystem capable of handling challenges of inequality, exploitation, poverty and climate change? Aaditeshwar Seth answers this important question in his recently published book, "Technology and (Dis)empowerment: A Call to Technologists". In this article, Seth discusses the many ways in which technology could aim to overturn hegemonic and unjust social and economic structures to create an equal and just society, a strikingly bold thread running through his book. Please take a look and join the discussion on REDlistserv or the website discussion forum. The author is copied on this email in case you would like to contact him directly. Also, this coming winter Aaditeshwar and I will be joined by a group of alternative technology thinkers and practitioners in a series of web-discussions to probe the emerging rift between technology and society, and how to imagine and craft an alternative paradigm for integrating appropriate technology into the world's socio-economic structures. We would love to hear your ideas about what this series should explore and what topics would be of your immediate concern. We look forward to hearing from you. Best wishes, Pallav

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Invitation to sign an Oath to the future
by Stella N M 26 Sep '22

26 Sep '22

Hallo! Please consider this and consider sharing it. This will be read out in Egypt so signing it before the end of October would be great! You are invited to sign this oath. A commitment to communicating truth/facts as we go into the future, while maintaining curiosity and room to engage with the youth whose futures are most bleak. https://jembendell.com/2022/09/25/invitation-to-sign-an-oath-to-the-future/ Regards, Stella Stella Nyambura Mbau PhD | Abundant Earth Foundation & Agroforestry Regeneration Communities- Project Coordinator | Future Females Business School member | Founder and CEO of LOABOWA | 8512 City Square, Nairobi, Kenya Read my most recent publication here <https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-07-26/misplaced-positivity-on-clima…>

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Podcast-Feminist Development Policy
by Shrishtee Bajpai 23 Sep '22

23 Sep '22

Might be of interest to some. Sorry for cross-posting. ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Lisa Hey | FAIR SHARE of Women Leaders <lisa(a)fairsharewl.org> Date: Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 4:04 PM Subject: Thank you! To: Dear Samie, Saranel, Shrishtee and Aram, Thank you for being part of this wonderful journey! Our first podcast on “Feminist Development Policy: A pathway towards global collaboration <https://fairsharewl.org/podcast-a-pathway-towards-feminist-global-collabora…>” is now online. We really appreciate that you took the time to talk to us and help us put this podcast together. Hopefully there will be more times in the future when we can collaborate on creating good trouble. To accompany our episodes, we are also sharing recommendations in English and German for practitioners of the sector, which we hope will support to shift the status quo of development and move towards feminist global collaboration. If you have any more thoughts or feedback please always feel free to reach out to us! We hope you enjoy listening to this podcast as much as we did – and please share it with anyone you know who’s interested in doing ‘development’ differently! Have a wonderful day! Best Lisa Tatu Hey | Project Manager (she/her) FAIR SHARE of Women Leaders e.V. Phone: +49 160 8590 458 Email: lisa(a)fairsharewl.org Available Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday Follow us on Twitter <https://twitter.com/fair_wl>, LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/company/fairshare-wl/> and Instagram <https://www.instagram.com/feministleadership/> | Subscribe to our newsletter <https://fairsharewl.us3.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=3a3ca8ab8ef8a7e64d2a543…> <https://fairsharewl.org/podcast-a-pathway-towards-feminist-global-collabora…> FAIR SHARE of Women Leaders e.V. Am Sudhaus 2, 12053 Berlin Amtsgericht Charlottenburg, Berlin VR 37160 B | VAT ID: DE342064523

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A new article on REDWeb - "Living bioregionally, now"
by Pallav Das 23 Sep '22

23 Sep '22

Friends, A new article, "Living bioregionally, now" has been uploaded on REDWeb. https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/living-bioregionally-now/ Could bioregional forms of governance that start from the biophysical realities of ecosystems, which are particular and even unique to places be a part of the solution to the environmental and climate crises being experienced by the world? Christine Dann analyses the promise and the challenges inherent in that hope based on her extensive work on critical environmental issues in New Zealand. Please take a look and join the discussion on REDlistserv or the website discussion forum. The author is copied on this email in case you would like to contact her directly. Best, Pallav

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A new article on RED - "Against the Universal Agent of Separation: A Review of Anitra Nelson’s Beyond Money"
by Pallav Das 22 Sep '22

22 Sep '22

Friends, A new article, "Against the Universal Agent of Separation: A Review of Anitra Nelson’s Beyond Money" has been uploaded to the Radical Ecological Democracy website. https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/against-the-universal-agent-of-separ… In this second part of our series on Anitra Nelson's, "Beyond Money: A Post-Capitalist Strategy", John Clark reviews the path breaking book for RED. He concludes that Anitra Nelson's inquiry takes "seriously the real possibilities for escape from the power of money and the urgent need to begin realizing those possibilities in the immediate future." Please take a look and join the discussion on the RED listserv and the website discussion forum. The author is copied here in case you would like to contact him directly. Also, Pluto Press is offering the RED readers an exclusive 30% discount on the book - the details are available at the end of the article. This discount ends on the 30th of April/2022. Best, Pallav

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new paper on comunity-led alternatives
by Renata Amorim 14 Sep '22

14 Sep '22

Dear all, I hope you are all well. I ask your permission to share an attached article published in Climate Action Springer Journal regarding the confluences of ecovillages and other community-led alternatives as horizons for a just and sustainable transition facing the climate, ecological and systemic civilization crisis. Thank you for your attention and all the inspiration coming from the people in this group, especially from Ashish Kothari's work. Best wishes, Renata --- Renata Amorim Almeida Fonseca Doutoranda em Psicossociologia de Comunidades e Ecologia Social - PPG EICOS/IP/UFRJ Pesquisadora em Sustentabilidade e Transformação Social - GAPIS/LATTES/CNPq Sócia diretora na CAMBARÁS PROJETOS SOCIOAMBIENTAIS PhD Candidate in Community Psychosociology and Social Ecology - PPG EICOS/IP/UFRJ Researcher in Sustainability and Social Transformation - GAPIS/LATTES/CNPq Managing partner at CAMBARÁS SOCIO ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECTS

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Book announcement - Technology and (Dis)Empowerment: A Call to Technologists
by Aaditeshwar Seth 08 Sep '22

08 Sep '22

** *Dear all,* * I teach at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at IIT Delhi in India, and I am also the co-founder of Gram Vaani <https://gramvaani.org/>, a social technology enterprise that since many years has been providing voice-based participatory media services to rural communities. I was working on a book and I am excited to announce that it is now published. It’s called Technology and (Dis)Empowerment: A Call to Technologists. It's an attempt to understand why technology often goes wrong and possibly how can it be done better. I argue that technologists have a strong role to play in ensuring that their creations do not disempower the people they were meant to support. I wanted to address the book towards technologists for several reasons. One, as an educator, to try and convince our students that they cannot simply outsource their morality to regulatory institutions or the markets, and in fact they need to actively shape these very institutions. Two, as a practitioner, I realized that there is no escape from having to continuously steer technologies to avoid harmful outcomes, so any technology design and management comes with its baggage of responsibility. Three, technologists are in a powerful position in the world today to affect change, and if done well then they can potentially make the world a better place. I would love feedback from the PeDAGoG community on what methods can be used to constructively engage with technologists and students of engineering and design, and especially connect them with the actual real problems that need to be solved in society. **** The book is available on Amazon.in <https://www.amazon.in/Technology-Dis-Empowerment-Call-Technologists-ebook/d…>, Amazon.com <https://www.amazon.com/Technology-Dis-Empowerment-Call-Technologists-ebook-…>, Emerald <https://books.emeraldinsight.com/page/detail/technology-and-disempowerment/…>, eBooks.com <https://www.ebooks.com/en-in/book/210514131/technology-and-dis-empowerment/…>, with previews at Google Books <https://books.google.co.in/books?id=k96DEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onep…>, and you can also write to me <mailto:[email protected]>for my local electronic version - I understand that the current pricing may be too high for retail purchases. The preface, introduction, and foreword (by Professor Tim Unwin <https://pure.royalholloway.ac.uk/portal/en/persons/tim-unwin(bfad958b-8f3b-…>) are available here <https://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~aseth/Technologies_that_Empower.pdf>. Some comments by eminent researchers and practitioners are mentioned towards the end of this email, and below I try to summarize a few of the key points I have tried to make in the book. ** First, I try to distinguish between the ends and means that a technology project may aim to meet. Most ICTs for development projects are unique in having identified some clear end goals for the projects, and which I found in Gram Vaani’s case helped provide us with a compass - a guiding light - to aim towards and to continuously steer our decision making to meet these goals. However, many technology projects adopt generic ethics statements that focus only on the means - do no harm guardrails that the projects should follow - and this I argue is not sufficient, like a ship without a compass to point it in the right direction. It could take the ship to many different destinations, not all of which may be desirable. A social good project must clearly define its end goals. Second, what should these end goals be for a social good project? I argue that technology should be meant to bring power-based equality in the world, by removing unjust hegemonic structures that perpetuate structural injustice. If this is not the goal, then technology often tends to reproduce inequalities - being wielded more easily by those who can gain access to it, or design it for their own agendas. I draw on works by researchers like Tim Unwin who argue for the same reason <https://academic.oup.com/book/27718>that technology should be designed only for the poor, feminist scholars like Iris Marion Young who define the purpose of justice <https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691152622/justice-and-the-p…>itself as showing the path to remove the underlying processes that cause structural injustice, Amartya Sen who makes similar arguments in terms of freedoms <https://global.oup.com/academic/product/development-as-freedom-978019289330…>, and Marxists like Harry Braverman <https://nyupress.org/9780853459408/labor-and-monopoly-capital/>or technology historians like David Noble <https://www.routledge.com/Forces-of-Production-A-Social-History-of-Industri…>who document the processes through which technology often serves the agendas of the powerful. Third, I delve deeper into the need to go beyond ensuring safety and equity, or goals like power-based equality, in the technology design alone. I argue that attention should be paid to ensuring the same ethical principles in the management of the technologytoo. I define management as what comes post-design when technology is deployed <https://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~aseth/limits-of-design.pdf>, and I argue that it is important to make this distinction between design and management because often in practice the teams of technologists playing these roles are distinct and the methods employed by them are also distinct. Most complexities at the management stage arise at the socio-technical interface when technologies begin to be used by people, and invariably lead to surprises and unforeseen situations largely due to the complexity of the world that cannot be possibly modeled completely at the design stage itself. Feedback processes to learn about these gaps, the humility to acknowledge them, and proactiveness to correct them by evolving better policies or re-designing the technology systems, become essential. Fourth, I borrow from the concepts of appropriate technology by E.F. Schumacher <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small_Is_Beautiful>and the Scandinavian methods of participatory designto emphasize that the users of a technology system should be involved in its design and management. Only once the users understand the technology and are able to un-blackbox it, can they steer the technology from avoiding harms and to neatly handle exceptions in their diverse local contexts. This has always been a key principle for us at Gram Vaani, and led us to develop the hybrid online-offline Mobile Vaani model <https://www.cse.iitd.ac.in/~aseth/camera-ready-1598-4953-1-PB.pdf>- where the online technology is governed by an offline team of community volunteers. It is the volunteers who are able to ensure a close embedding of Mobile Vaani within the communities, convey editorial preferences for the content carried on the platform, and ensure that all operations adhere to the ethical principles of inclusion and empowerment of the weak and oppressed. We have always endeavoured to get to a point where the technology simply becomes an infrastructure, and community institutions such as the Mobile Vaani volunteer clubs do the rest. Fifth, I discuss what might prevent technologists from following these principles above. I delve in detail into the current structures of the market and state that often compromise these values, either by design or by sidelining these principles in favour of other objectives. Profit-seeking goals of corporations, or social control <https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300078152/seeing-like-a-state/>goals of the state, and often interlocks between the two, infiltrate multiple spheres that lead to fallouts from technology. They infiltrate organizational culture by creating role-based segregation and moral buffers for various teams. They influence the incentive structures for technologists by emphasizing profit-maximizing metrics rather than impact-maximizing or harm-avoiding metrics. And in the current context of increasing digitization led by centralized architectures they inevitably lead to surveillance based models <https://profilebooks.com/work/the-age-of-surveillance-capitalism/>which at worst are designed to disempower individual and group freedom, or at best are highly error prone and often not scaffolded by fault-managing systems like for grievance redressal. This is why the book is really a call to technologists to realize their position of strength in today’s world and take steps to ensure that their labour is indeed able to lead to empowering effects for the weak. This is not just a hope. I rely on Marx’s concept of humanism here. For Marx, social relationships <https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1844/manuscripts/labour.htm>arise from relations of production and consumption, and positive social relationships are those that create genuine use-value, without coercion or instrumental use of others. Technologists are workers too, and I believe we are driven by these same desires of reclaiming our humanism. I strongly believe that sooner or later technologists will indeed see through the fog that often surrounds them and paralyzes them from taking deliberate action towards social good and only that. Collectives of technologists that can change their organizations from within, public spheres that connect technologists with end-users of their technologies, and new economic structures such as the commons, may hold the key for the way forward. Finally, I argue that such a value-driven ethos for technologists can exist only within the morally grounded rules of behavior that democracy tries to create. Pluralism to listen to diverse voices, learn from them, and change preferences based on these insights, is what drives democracy. For their own humanism, technologists have a role here too to build meta-social good infrastructures that strengthen democracy through pluralism and structures of accountability and transparency. I argue that participatory media systems such as those created by Gram Vaani, and the community media ecosystem in general, are crucial for this purpose. These systems enable deliberation and learning, and see the media as a tool in the hands of activists and communities to increase freedoms and democracy, and not as a mechanism for propaganda wielded by the powerful. ** *I look forward to hearing your thoughts and ideas on how we can build a movementto ensure that technology becomes an unambiguous force of social good and transforms the world rapidly into a more equitable and fair ecosystem, capable of handling the grave impending challenges of inequality, exploitation, poverty, and climate change that we face today. * **** And if at all relevant then do also reach out to us at Gram Vaani for any collaborations in the space of social entitlements and rights <https://gramvaani.org/mar-21-delivery-of-social-protection-entitlements-in-…>for rural communities and industrial sector workers, and explore new directions in improving gender equality by creating women-driven community media platforms <https://gramvaani.org/meri-awaz-meri-pehchan/>, improve natural resource management by making it easier for communities to demand relevant water conservation structures and adopt alternate land-use practices <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvU1T10oTa4>, and design more appropriate community and health-worker facing applications for public health systems <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGbCu--Z1HQ>that can put the power of data in the hands of the users. sincerely Aadi ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Given the enormous influence and control of technologies over our lives, an ethical enquiry into their development, use and ownership is of vital importance. This book provides an incisive account of how state and market-led technologies have exacerbated socio-economic and environmental injustice, and conversely, how technologies based on the ethics of plurality, diversity, power-based equality, freedom and participation can help the movement towards justice and sustainability. Seth's call is not for rejecting technology, but for paradigm shifts towards more socially engaged technology and technologists. -- Ashish Kothari: Kalpavriksh, Vikalp Sangam and Global Tapestry of Alternatives If you want to use information technology to make a positive difference in the world, then you need to read this book. Aadi Seth combines careful analysis of the interplay between technology design and socio-political processes with a wealth of practical experience to identify key challenges that efforts around IT for Good will always have to face. -- Andy Dearden: Professor (Emeritus) Interactive Systems Design, Sheffield Hallam University Professor Aaditeshwar Seth has spent years developing technologies through Gram Vaani, a social enterprise delivering a voice-based social media platform in northern India. Based on wide-ranging scholarship and hard-won experience, he counters market values with an approach to social impact that takes ethics and socio-technical theories seriously. If you're a technologist hoping to contribute to social good, this book will keep you honest! -- Kentaro Toyama: Professor, School of Information, University of Michigan What comes out most importantly in the text is Aadi's two-fold firm conviction - one, that a technological community committed towards social good is indeed possible; and two, that dividing lines across technologists and ordinary people can be bridged, and this is what he has argued for. I hope that the technological community engages with these arguments. -- Rahul Varman: Professor, Department of Industrial & Management Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur * -- Aaditeshwar Seth Computer Science and Engineering IIT Delhi http://www.cse.iitd.ernet.in/~aseth http://act4d.iitd.ernet.in/ https://gramvaani.org/

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errata corrige. no online streaming for F. Verges' lecture
by Alessandra Pomarico 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

dears, I apologize for the unclear communication... some of you have written notifying the wrong link (thank you) and asked for more information. Our friends from tranzit Bratislava clarified that they can not stream the event online today. We are sorry! but they will share the video on their youtube channel and circulate it also with us. I was happy to see so many responses and I promise I will share as soon as it becomes available sending hugs ! alessandra 06/09/2022Decolonial Europe. An antiracist, anti-capitalist and > anti-imperialist feminist approach > > *Lecture by Françoise Vergès / Q & A: Ľubica Kobová and Zuzana Maďarová* > > *September 6, 7 pm, tranzit.sk <http://tranzit.sk/>* > > The event will be held in English > > In Discourse on Colonialism (published in French in 1955), anticolonial > political leader and Martinican poet Aimé Césaire wrote: *"Europe is > indefensible”* because it had justified, in the name of its *“superior”* civilization, > genocides, massacres, slavery, colonization, extractive economy destructive > of the environment, the deportation of millions of Africans and the > dispossession and exploitation of millions of people around the world. > > European’s blindness to its crimes meant that they could not understand > that *“Colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him > in the true sense of the word,”* in other words, that its ideas, regimes, > social making would be inevitably contaminated by racism. Thus, Europe > could not understand that, sooner or later, they would have to enter their > own decolonial process. > > Today, the multiplication of zones of non-being, the return of > extreme-right parties in parliaments, the anti-refugee politics, the > counter-offensive against women’s and LGTBQI+ rights, the murderous racism > against Black, Roma, Muslim and indigenous communities, the government’s > deafness in face of climate disaster, the return of war on the continent, > shatters European narrative of having been protected from colonial > ideologies and universalism. > > *“Decolonization is a program of total disorder,”* wrote decolonial > theorist Frantz Fanon. Revolutionary disorder (which is not chaos) is an > answer to the disorder that capitalism endlessly produces. In this > contribution, Françoise Vergès will discuss how the idea of Europe was > colonial (even on the continent itself), why the decolonization of Europe > as an antiracist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle is urgent, > and what decolonial feminism can bring to the struggle against the > permanent war on peoples and the earth. > > *Françoise Vergès* is a Franco-Reunionnese political theorist, feminist, > independent curator, public educator and decolonial activist currently > living in Paris. Her work focuses on colonial slavery as an anti-Blackness > regime, psychoanalysis, the (impossible) decolonization of the Western > museum, republican coloniality and decolonial feminism. Her latest books > are A Decolonial Feminism (2020/2021), A Feminist Theory of Violence, A > Decolonial Perspective (2021/2022) and De la violence coloniale dans > l’espace public (2021). She has directed movies on Caribbean authors Aimé > Césaire and Maryse Condé, curated exhibitions, and convened workshops with > artists of color. She is a co-founder of the non-profit Decolonize the arts > (2015-2022) and of its open university. > > *Ľubica Kobová* teaches at the Department of Gender Studies of the > Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague. Her research focus > is on feminist political thought and its history and feminist understanding > of work and work ethics. She is a member of the editorial board of > Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought and cooperates with Aspekt, > the Feminist Publication and Educational Project based in Bratislava. > > *Zuzana Maďarová* is a researcher at the Faculty of Social and Economic > Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava, collaborator with the > feminist educational and publishing organization ASPEKT. Her research > focuses on gender aspects of political subjectivity (in history and > present), political communication, and the conservative turn in political > discourse. > > The event is part of the *How to Live Together?* series of conversations > curated by Judit Angel, Alessandra Pomarico, Borbála Soós, Ovidiu > Ţichindeleanu within the *Art Connected 2022 – 2023* subprogram of > tranzit.sk. > > ERSTE Foundation <http://www.erstestiftung.org/en/> is main partner of > tranzit. Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council > <http://www.fpu.sk/en/2-nazaradene/255-slovak-arts-council>. > > Crédit photo: Anthony Françin, 2020 > > > > > > > > > > >> >>

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Re: [PeDAGoG] higher education & Climate justice
by Shrishtee Bajpai 06 Sep '22

06 Sep '22

Might be of interest ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Stephens, Jennie <j.stephens(a)northeastern.edu> Date: Mon, Sep 5, 2022, 9:52 PM Subject: higher education & Climate justice To: <ALTERNATIVES-TO-CAPITALISM(a)jiscmail.ac.uk> Colleagues, For those of us involved in higher education, the attached opinion piece I co-authored that was just published in the Boston Globe might be of interest – calling for innovation and new ways of thinking about impact in higher education….. “Higher Ed Needs a New Mission: How About Climate Justice <https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/01/opinion/higher-education-needs-new-m…> ?” Boyle, A. D. and J. C. Stephens (2022). Higher Education Needs a New Mission: How about Climate Justice? . *Boston Globe*. September 1, 2022 https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/01/opinion/higher-education-needs-new-m… . I attach here a PDF version because of the paywall in the Boston Globe. Hope this catalyzes some good discussion and ideas. Jennie *Jennie C. Stephens, PhD **(she/her)* Dean’s Professor of Sustainability Science & Policy Northeastern University, School of Public Policy & Urban Affairs <https://www.northeastern.edu/cssh/policyschool>, Boston, MA USA jenniecstephens.com @jenniecstephens (twitter) *Recent Publications* Higher Education Needs a New Mission. How about Climate Justice <https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/09/01/opinion/higher-education-needs-new-m…> ? *Boston Globe*. 2022 Beyond Climate Isolationism: A Necessary Shift For Climate Justice <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40641-022-00186-6#citeas>. *Current Climate Change Reports*. 2022 Action Research for Energy Transformation <https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09650792.2022.2084434>, *Educational Action Reesarch*. 2022 Climate policy conflict in the U.S. states: a critical review and way forward. <https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10584-022-03319-w> *Climatic Change*, 2022 Feminist, Antiracist Values for Climate Justice: Moving Beyond Climate Isolationism <https://www.routledge.com/Sacred-Civics-Building-Seven-Generation-Cities/En…>. *Sacred Civics: Building Seven Generation Cities. 2022* Green New Deal Proposals: Comparing emerging transformational climate policies. <https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214629621003522> *Energy Research & Social Science*, 2021 *Book* Diversifying Power: Why We Need Antiracist, Feminist Leadership on Climate and Energy <https://islandpress.org/books/diversifying-power>, *Island Press*, 2020 [image: Diversifying Power thumbmail] ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the ALTERNATIVES-TO-CAPITALISM list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=ALTERNATIVES-TO-CAPIT…

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lecture by Françoise Vergès, 6.9.2022, 7PM, tranzitsk
by Alessandra Pomarico 05 Sep '22

05 Sep '22

dearest friends, I'm delighted to invite you to our first conversation, part of How to Live Together? a series I co-curated with Judit Angel, Borbála Soós, and Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu*,* expanding some of the themes investigated through the exhibition* Grounding ~Seeding, *hosted in tranzit.sk I hope you can make it, as Francoise is not to be missed! alessandra 06/09/2022Decolonial Europe. An antiracist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist feminist approach *Lecture by Françoise Vergès / Q & A: Ľubica Kobová and Zuzana Maďarová* *September 6, 7 pm, tranzit.sk <http://tranzit.sk>* The event will be held in English In Discourse on Colonialism (published in French in 1955), anticolonial political leader and Martinican poet Aimé Césaire wrote: *"Europe is indefensible”* because it had justified, in the name of its *“superior”* civilization, genocides, massacres, slavery, colonization, extractive economy destructive of the environment, the deportation of millions of Africans and the dispossession and exploitation of millions of people around the world. European’s blindness to its crimes meant that they could not understand that *“Colonization works to decivilize the colonizer, to brutalize him in the true sense of the word,”* in other words, that its ideas, regimes, social making would be inevitably contaminated by racism. Thus, Europe could not understand that, sooner or later, they would have to enter their own decolonial process. Today, the multiplication of zones of non-being, the return of extreme-right parties in parliaments, the anti-refugee politics, the counter-offensive against women’s and LGTBQI+ rights, the murderous racism against Black, Roma, Muslim and indigenous communities, the government’s deafness in face of climate disaster, the return of war on the continent, shatters European narrative of having been protected from colonial ideologies and universalism. *“Decolonization is a program of total disorder,”* wrote decolonial theorist Frantz Fanon. Revolutionary disorder (which is not chaos) is an answer to the disorder that capitalism endlessly produces. In this contribution, Françoise Vergès will discuss how the idea of Europe was colonial (even on the continent itself), why the decolonization of Europe as an antiracist, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist struggle is urgent, and what decolonial feminism can bring to the struggle against the permanent war on peoples and the earth. *Françoise Vergès* is a Franco-Reunionnese political theorist, feminist, independent curator, public educator and decolonial activist currently living in Paris. Her work focuses on colonial slavery as an anti-Blackness regime, psychoanalysis, the (impossible) decolonization of the Western museum, republican coloniality and decolonial feminism. Her latest books are A Decolonial Feminism (2020/2021), A Feminist Theory of Violence, A Decolonial Perspective (2021/2022) and De la violence coloniale dans l’espace public (2021). She has directed movies on Caribbean authors Aimé Césaire and Maryse Condé, curated exhibitions, and convened workshops with artists of color. She is a co-founder of the non-profit Decolonize the arts (2015-2022) and of its open university. *Ľubica Kobová* teaches at the Department of Gender Studies of the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University in Prague. Her research focus is on feminist political thought and its history and feminist understanding of work and work ethics. She is a member of the editorial board of Contradictions: A Journal for Critical Thought and cooperates with Aspekt, the Feminist Publication and Educational Project based in Bratislava. *Zuzana Maďarová* is a researcher at the Faculty of Social and Economic Sciences at Comenius University in Bratislava, collaborator with the feminist educational and publishing organization ASPEKT. Her research focuses on gender aspects of political subjectivity (in history and present), political communication, and the conservative turn in political discourse. The event is part of the *How to Live Together?* series of conversations curated by Judit Angel, Alessandra Pomarico, Borbála Soós, Ovidiu Ţichindeleanu within the *Art Connected 2022 – 2023* subprogram of tranzit.sk. ERSTE Foundation <http://www.erstestiftung.org/en/> is main partner of tranzit. Supported using public funding by Slovak Arts Council <http://www.fpu.sk/en/2-nazaradene/255-slovak-arts-council>. 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