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INVITATION: Launch of Asian School of Wisdom, Thailand, 30 July 2021
by vkarunan2016＠gmail.com 28 Jul '21

28 Jul '21

You are Cordially Invited INTERNATIONAL ONLINE LAUNCH – ASIAN SCHOOL OF WISDOM (ASW) Nurturing an Inclusive Age Of Wisdom & Spirit “We Are Not Living an Era of Change but a Change of Era.” Pope Francis Time: Friday, Jul 30, 2021 Bangkok: 3:00-4.30 pm, KL/Manila Time: 4.00-5.30 pm; Indian Time 1.30-3.00 pm; European Time: 11.00-12.30 pm; USA Time: 4.00-5.30 am. Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84931373222?pwd=dXYzekVSbStwaGRPaHlhV1BVeUpNQT09 Meeting ID: 849 3137 3222 Passcode: 796769 _________________________ VICTOR P. KARUNAN, Ph.D. 120/210 Thana City, Moo 4 Tambon Bangchalong, Bangpli District Samut Prakarn 10540 Thailand Tel (Mobile): +66-98-6707854 Email: vkarunan2016(a)gmail.com Skype: vkarunan

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Map of alternatives in India: invitation to connect and contribute
by Ashish Kothari 26 Jul '21

26 Jul '21

Friends, this may be of interest. For details/to contribute/comment, pl. click on 'contact us' below or write to Swati, cc'd here ... DO NOT WRITE BACK ON LISTS please. ashish *Vikalp Sangam Map* The *Vikalp Sangam **Map* <https://vikalpsangam.org/map/>documents and catalogues stories of alternative initiatives across India. It provides readers, researchers, students and practitioners with a user-friendly tool to navigate through stories, case studies, films and perspectives on numerous ongoing alternative initiatives in India. These initiatives range across food, environment, health, politics, culture, education, governance and many more subjects. As the scale of many of these initiatives is small, many of them go unnoticed in the eyes of concerned citizens and researchers. The Map collects stories of alternatives in order to increase visibility with the aim of interlinking them and initiating conversations of sharing experiences and learning. It therefore, is a virtual medium to get information, connect with other groups working on similar issues and build confluences. A Vikalp Sangam team manages the Map, to find out more please click here <https://vikalpsangam.org/map/>.*Vikalp Sangam*is a platform for networking of groups and individuals working on alternatives to the currently dominant model of development and governance, in various spheres of life. Its major activity is the convening of regional and thematic Confluences across India, and documentation and dissemination of alternative initiatives. *What is an Alternative?* Alternatives can be practical activities, policies, processes, technologies, and concepts/frameworks, that lead us to equity, justice, and sustainability. They can be practiced or proposed/propagated by communities, government, civil society organizations, individuals, and social enterprises, amongst others. They can simply be continuations from the past, re-asserted in or modified for current times, or new ones; it is important to note that the term does not imply these are always ‘marginal’ or new, but that they are in contrast to the mainstream or dominant system. Not all will be 'radical' in all respects, and many may be in transition or be in the nature of reforms but helping to reduce injustic, inequality, unsustainability. For how the Vikalp Sangam process looks at this, *Read More…* <https://vikalpsangam.org/about/the-search-for-alternatives-key-aspects-and-…> and for a tool of self-assessment on how radical and holistic a transformation is: *Alternative Transformation Format* <https://vikalpsangam.org/wp-content/uploads/migrate/VS_Case_Studies/alterna…> *What type of information can you find in the Map? *The VS maps stories, case studies, perspectives and videos/films across 11 main categories: 1. Economics And Technologies 2. Energy 3. Environment And Ecology 4. Food And Water 5. Health And Hygiene 6. Knowledge And Media 7. Learning And Education 8. Livelihoods 9. Politics 10. Settlements And Transport 11. Society, Culture And Peace ** To *connect with us and contribute* to the Map please Contact Us <https://vikalpsangam.org/contact-us/>. -- NOW FREE DOWNLOAD! ÔPluriverse: A Post-Development DictionaryÕ (https://radicalecologicaldemocracy.org/pluriverse) Ashish Kothari Kalpavriksh Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa 908 Deccan Gymkhana Pune 411004, India Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450 https://kalpavriksh.org http://vikalpsangam.org www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org https://ashishkothari51.blogspot.com Twitter: @chikikothari LinkedIn:www.linkedin.com/in/ashishkothari1961 Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/ashishkotharivikalp/

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INVITATION: Launch of Asian School of Wisdom, Thailand, 30 July 2021
by vkarunan2016＠gmail.com 25 Jul '21

25 Jul '21

Dear Friends from Pedagog: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group - Greetings from Bangkok. Inviting you to join the launch of the Asian School of Wisdom (ASW) on Fri 30 July at 3 pm (Bangkok time). Please share with others who may be interested as well. Invitation attached. Best - Victor VICTOR P. KARUNAN, Ph.D. 120/210 Thana City, Moo 4 Tambon Bangchalong, Bangpli District Samut Prakarn 10540 Thailand Tel (Mobile): +66-98-6707854 Email: <mailto:[email protected]> vkarunan2016(a)gmail.com Skype: vkarunan

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Welcoming new members and Updates from working groups
by Upamanyu Das 22 Jul '21

22 Jul '21

Dear all, Hope you are doing well :) We have had an influx of new members to our mailing list, which is exciting! A warm welcome to all those who've recently joined us. Please feel free to introduce yourselves, your affiliation, your interest and/or your work in alternative pedagogies with the rest of the group! As was decided in our last meeting, we are working towards collective actions in smaller working groups. Would the working groups like to provide a quick update on how things are going, areas where they may need help etc.? There's no need to reply to the entire list, you can keep me, Ashish and Shrishtee looped in for this. Here's a quick look at the groups for those who are new or missed this. If anybody is interested in joining one or more of these working groups, you can write directly to the respective volunteers or write to me to connect with them. Working Group 1: Pedagogic and knowledge sharing to build and strengthen repositories of materials Volunteers: Sujit (lead), John, Julia Working Group 2: Research collaborations and action research Volunteers: Rama Mohana, Irene Sotiropoulou Working Group 3: Co-organization of events (inward-facing) Volunteers: Rama Mohana, Pallavi, Shrishtee Working Group 4: Advocacy for PeDAGoG (outward-facing) Working Group 5: Collective Values and Principles of the PeDAGoG network Volunteers: Angging (lead), Ashish, Hans, Ryan, Ed You can view the meeting notes and more details on these working groups on this Google Doc - https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X4p8-Lf6CDDIxyzs8Jc5xx6mb3fB3bSDYsYPbZm… Best, Upamanyu

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Talk series (Online): Cheap energy in the Capitalocene Dr. Jason W. Moore and Dr. Jaume Franquesa
by Carlos Tornel 20 Jul '21

20 Jul '21

Dear all, With apologies for crossposting. The Centre for Culture and Ecology at Durham University is hosting the talk: *Cheap energy in the Capitalocene: Accumulation, waste, and the struggles for reparation ecologies* as part of our series on Capitalism, Nature and Climate with Dr. Jason W. Moore and Dr. Jaume Franquesa. The talk will take place on *Thursday, 22nd July 2021 (16:00 - 18:00) (BST), via Zoom*, it is free and open for all. Please join us and feel free to share the invitation to anyone who might be interested. Registration open via the following link: https://forms.office.com/r/3b5V4mCLL1 More Information about the talk here: https://www.durham.ac.uk/research/institutes-and-centres/culture-ecology/ab… Best! C. -- Centre for Culture and Ecology – Talk Series on Capitalism, Nature and Climate. Dr. Jason W. Moore and Dr. Jaume Franquesa - *Cheap energy in the Capitalocene: Accumulation, waste, and the struggles for reparation ecologies.* Thursday, 22nd July 2021 (16:00 - 18:00) (BST), via Zoom. *Talk Abstract: * Using the term Capitalocene means taking capitalism seriously, not just as an economic system, but as a way of organizing the relations between humans and the rest of nature. The Capitalocene argues that the modern world is a result of a set of strategies that seek to "cheapen" and mobilize all kinds of work with as little compensation as possible, enabling the expansion of capitalism's frontiers, and extending its control over a wider set of relations of life. Considering energy as a "cheap thing", reveals how energy “does work” for capitalism: by amplifying (or substituting) work and care to advance *productivity *in a system with what appears to be a limitless demand for growth. The ongoing climate crisis reveals that we are living with the consequences of a civilization built on cheap energy. The Capitalocene challenges the idea that renewable energy necessarily involves a stark rupture with the former modes of energy production. Instead, it foregrounds how renewable energy technologies replicate cheapening strategies, creating new sacrifice zones, and leaving behind environmental risks and social conflicts. It is through the dialectical relationship between waste and value that the energy transitions operate: Renewable energy investment is presented as a redeeming strategy for the unproductiveness or the wastefulness of certain places, a process that simultaneously detaches and alienates energy from actual social relations and cheapens local attachments to land, as well as efforts to produce autonomous, self-managed livelihoods. This talk will focus on the strategies of cheap energy that continue to underpin the power dynamics of energy transitions in different places. It will engage with concepts such as: *reparation ecologies and the demands for dignity and revaluation *to encourage a discussion over how struggles for autonomous livelihoods in the dialectics between waste and value can redefine how we might live differently in a world made by capitalism's ecology. *Bios: * - Jason W. Moore is an environmental historian and historical geographer at Binghamton University, where he is professor of sociology. He is author or editor, most recently, of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015), Capitalocene o Anthropocene? (Ombre Corte, 2017), Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism (PM Press, 2016), and, with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (University of California Press, 2017). - Jaume Franquesa is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The State University of New York at Buffalo. His research agenda focuses on the relationship between the commodification of resources and the making of local livelihoods. His interests include energy transitions, land-rural politics, and processes of cultural heritage making. His most recent book is Power Struggles: Dignity, Value, and the Renewable Energy Frontier in Spain (Indiana University Press, 2018). This talk will be co-chaired by Andrew Baldwin and Carlos Tornel.

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Fwd: Invitation to a ritual - slow communication practice
by Andrea González Andino 19 Jul '21

19 Jul '21

Dear ones! Let me share with you all this invitation to a ritual to send old-fashioned letters to each other! Join us for a webinar in more than an hour to know more: here you can sign up for this https://ecoversities.org/letters-from-imagination/ Are you curious to know more? Come to our introduction session, and we will tell you all about this immersing experiment: Date: July, Monday 19th Time: 12:00 pm Mex-Ecuador, 18:00 CET, 22:30 IST https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84200790118 Webinar abstract An attempt to balance digital existence effects with human nature poetic.In the digital era, letters are tools for poetic communication. They mark the symbolic values of our relationships. Digital communication is very smart and useful but it confines us inside the same rectangular electronic frame. Opening, reading, and writing a letter means performing a ritual sharing emotions, expectations, and creativity. There is also the possibility to make a follow-up story/ images by asking people to continue on what they have received. This is perfect to create a collective myth among ecoversities followers! In the webinar, we will share some keywords and concepts for the letters/images which all of us will be sending later to some other followers, by regular mail. hugs!! ---------- Forwarded message --------- De: Andrea González Andino <andreagonzalezandino(a)gmail.com> Date: mar, 13 jul 2021 a las 20:43 Subject: Invitation to a ritual - slow communication practice To: Ecoversities Friends <ecoversitiesfriends(a)googlegroups.com> This is an invitation to a ritual for re-imagining our contemporary self. We are starting a mail-art project, and we would love to do it with you. We invite you to enter the ritual of “Letters from Imagination”, where we perform the ceremony of sending mail, yep – old-fashioned letters(!) -, filled with magnificent thoughts and figments of humane imagination, to people around the world. Here is more information about how can you be involved on this https://ecoversities.org/letters-from-imagination/ Are you curious to know more? Come to our introduction session, and we will tell you all about this immersing experiment: Date: July, Monday 19th Time: 12:00 pm Mex-Ecuador, 18:00 CET, 22:30 IST https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84200790118 If you have any questions let us know! With love and hugs, Anip, Andre, Eileen and Emilio. -- At. Andrea González Andino +593 984583118

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Fwd: [REDlistserve] Presentation on the real potential of Design education for transforming mainstream education
by Ashish Kothari 02 Jul '21

02 Jul '21

This may be of interest, ashish -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [REDlistserve] Presentation on the real potential of Design education for transforming mainstream education Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 14:45:12 +0530 From: Jinan K B <jinankb(a)gmail.com> To: Jinan K B <jinankb(a)gmail.com> CC: radical_ecological_democracy(a)googlegroups.com, Decoding the Technosphere <decoding-technosphere(a)googlegroups.com>, cognitive-importance-of-drawing(a)googlegroups.com, samwaad-on-learning <samwaad-on-learning(a)googlegroups.com>, biological-roots-of-being <biological-roots-of-being(a)googlegroups.com>, learninginnature <learninginnature(a)googlegroups.com>, vikalp-sangam-education-learning(a)googlegroups.com, Economics-of-happiness-india <Economics-of-happiness-india(a)googlegroups.com>, learningfromchildren <learningfromchildren(a)googlegroups.com>, AFP list <altforumpune(a)googlegroups.com>, hrutcollage(a)googlegroups.com <hrutcollage(a)googlegroups.com>, punehomeschoolers <punehomeschoolers(a)googlegroups.com>, poorna-pune-learning-hub(a)googlegroups.com <poorna-pune-learning-hub(a)googlegroups.com> Presentation on the real potential of Design education for transforming mainstream education https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3_brMbWcJ4 The real potential of design education is to re-imagine the whole 'schooling' paradigm TOTALLY starting from the kind of space/ condition that is provided for children right from home. This has become an urgent task as the whole modern crisis- which is we, the educated turning against life and nature stems from the alienation from our own biology, our way of knowing and being. We need to look at design education very differently to explore this and abstract some of the fundamental aspects that make design education unique and apart from other 'disciplines' in every aspect- content, pedagogy, process, ambiance, etc. What are the fundamental principles in design education which can be used to learn every other discipline? How can we re-imagine the foundation year to be the foundation not just for learning design but for every other 'discipline'? jinan jinankb,in -- To reply to the author of this message, select "reply"; to reply to the whole list, select "reply to all". --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Radical Ecological Democracy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to radical_ecological_democracy+unsubscribe(a)googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web, visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/radical_ecological_democracy/CAH0%3D6_sJq….

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27 June UTC 13.00 JOMO Lecture on the pandemic
by LAU Kin Chi 27 Jun '21

27 Jun '21

27 June (Sun) HK 21:00 - 23:00 (GMT 13:00 - 15:00) Lecture 4 - Tentative Lessons from the Pandemic about the World We Live In Moderator: Maria Lucia TEIXEIRA GARCIA Speaker: JOMO Kwame Sundaram Simultaneous Interpretation: English, Chinese, Spanish [SSFS8 6.27 Poster English Revised.jpg] Please register at : https://lingnan.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Sr5sQsN1TVK4fgd3VpD9JA Registration fees are waived for GTA members. Please put down "GTA" in the column "Questions and comments" The same link is used for almost all SSFS8 sessions. For programme and reader, please see https://our-global-u.org/oguorg/en/the-8th-south-south-forum-on-sustainabil… With warm regards, Kin Chi [Lingnan University Hong Kong] <https://www.ln.edu.hk> [Transformation For Life] <https://www.ln.edu.hk/transformation-for-life>

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Weaving a World Where Many Worlds Fit: Global Tapestry of Alternatives (Zapatista tour of Europe) 28 June, 1 pm GMT, 3 pm CET, 6.30 pm IST
by Ashish Kothari 24 Jun '21

24 Jun '21

*(see contact details below; do not write back on lists) * * * *Weaving a World Where Many Worlds Fit: The Global Tapestry of Alternatives* *** * https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/weaving-a-world-where-many-worlds-fit-the-gl… <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/weaving-a-world-where-many-worlds-fit-the-gl…> <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/weaving-a-world-where-many-worlds-fit-the-gl…> Weaving a World Where Many Worlds Fit: The Global Tapestry of Alternatives <https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/weaving-a-world-where-many-worlds-fit-the-gl…> Weaving a World Where Many Worlds Fit: The Global Tapestry of Alternatives www.eventbrite.co.uk About this event As the world struggles to find ways out of multiple global crises (ecological, climate, inequality, health, food), myriad alternatives are emerging, grounded in specific ecological and socio-economic contexts, and based on diverse cosmologies and ethical principles that challenge the dominant capitalism-heteropatriarchal system. While attempting to sustain all life on earth, these transformative alternatives are also innovating on a full range of (non)human concerns, including food, water, health, education, livelihoods, governance, culture, justice. However, as they are often isolated, there is a need to build more bridges amongst them to enable cross-cultural and cross- mutual learning and critical engagement, and new collective envisioning of possible futures leading to a critical mass for macro-change. This is a free event, but we are requesting donations to support the Zapatista visit to the UK. /All funds raised will go directly to the groups who have taken on the financial burden of funding the Zapatista visit to the UK./ *Speakers details:* *The Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA)*aims to weave this transformative alternatives. It is a non-hierarchical bottom up process, seeking to create solidarity and strategic alliances amongst alternatives at local, regional and global levels. In this process of ‘weaving’ the GTA locates itself in and/or helps to initiate interactions among these transformative alternatives, and organises through light, horizontal, democratic, inclusive and non-centralised structures. As an ever-expanding, complex set of tapestries, woven together by already existing communal or collective webs, the GTA builds on and expands on already existing and new alternatives to dominant regimes and promotes regional, national and global encounters, and close and synergistic linkages with existing organisations (e.g. the World Social Forum and Grassroots to Global). The GTA embraces the Zapatista’ Declaration for life and welcome their visit to Europe! Their revolutionary struggle has been one of the sources of inspiration for GTA (core members and endorsers). The GTA honours the Zapatista’s proposal to build ‘A World Where Many Worlds Fit.’ In this webinar, speakers will honour the Zapatista struggle by presenting the GTA’s vision and ideas about radical change, illustrated by real-life experiences from various groups in different geographic locations. *Speakers*(all of whom are in the GTA Core Team): *Shrishtee Bajpai*(India) Activist-researcher based in Pune, India and member of Kalpavriksh. Her research is focussed on documenting, analysing, and networking alternatives to development. She helps in coordinating the Vikalp Sangam (alternative confluence) process in India. *Ana Cecilia Dinerstein*(Argentinean/UK) teaches political sociology and critical, decolonial and feminist theory at the University of Bath. She created the global politics of hope: a post-disciplinary and intersectoral field for radical transformation *Arturo Escobar*(Colombia/USA): Arturo is a Colombian activist-researcher, working on territorial struggles against extractivism and on post-development regional transitions, and ontological design. He taught anthropology and political ecology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill until 2018. TBC *Ashish Kothari*(India): Founder-member of Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh. He has (co)authored or (co)edited over 30 books, including Pluriverse and Alternative Futures, and helps coordinate the Vikalp Sangam and Radical Ecological Democracy processes. *Vasna Ramasar*(South Africa/Sweden): Academic and activist from South Africa living and working in Sweden. She has always been involved in environmental justice, politics of environment and alternatives to development. GTA’s website: https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org Contact: contact(a)globaltapestryofalternatives.org. This session will be introduced and chaired by*Shelda Smith*. *If you'd like to keep updated or get involved, you can join the mailing list at:* https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/ezlneneuropa_uk <https://lists.riseup.net/www/subscribe/ezlneneuropa_uk> *Follow us on Twitter: @zapatistasolid1* Dr. Anthony Faramelli Lecturer in Visual Cultures /Resistance, Revolution Fascism: Zapatismo and Assemblage Politics/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/resistance-revolution-and-fascism-97813500500… <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/resistance-revolution-and-fascism-97813500500…> /Spaces of Crisis and Critique: Heterotopias Beyond Foucault/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/spaces-of-crisis-and-critique-9781350021129/ <https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/spaces-of-crisis-and-critique-9781350021129/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>>>> -- >>>>> New, for COVID relief in India!Vikalp Sutra >>>>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsutra.vik…> >>>>> NOW FREE DOWNLOAD!Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary >>>>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fradicalec…> >>>>> Ashish Kothari >>>>> Kalpavriksh >>>>> Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa >>>>> 908 Deccan Gymkhana >>>>> Pune 411004, India >>>>> Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450 >>>>> Kalpavriksh >>>>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fkalpavrik…> >>>>> Vikalp Sangam >>>>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fvikalpsang…> >>>>> Radical Ecological Democracy >>>>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.radica…> >>>>> Global Tapestry of >>>>> Alternatives<https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.global…> >>>>> https://ashishkothari51.blogspot.com >>>>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fashishkot…> >>>>> Twitter >>>>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.c…>LinkedIn >>>>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.linked…>Instagram >>>>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.insta…>Facebook >>>>> <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.faceb…> >>>> >>> >>

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A piece on the physical limits to infinite economic growth
by singhvan＠rcn.com 21 Jun '21

21 Jun '21

Dear All, You may be interested in this Opinion piece from climate physicist Chirag Dhara and myself that came out today in Scientific American. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-delusion-of-infinite-economi… For those interested in this subject in the educational context, you may want to look at our chapter for a forthcoming publication from UNESCO on Climate Education. Free download from the site below. https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.07467 "The Elephant in the Room: Why Transformative Education Must Address the Problem of Endless Exponential Economic Growth." Please feel free to circulate. Many thanks! Best, Vandana

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