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Fwd: The Pedagogy of Transition: Educating for the Future We Want
by Ashish Kothari 14 May '21

14 May '21

Friends, this set of essays may be of interest. fore more, pl. write to Jonathan, cc'd here ... do not write back on lists. ashish -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: The Pedagogy of Transition: Educating for the Future We Want Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 17:30:03 +0000 From: Paul Raskin - Great Transition Initiative <gti(a)greattransition.org> Reply-To: Paul Raskin - Great Transition Initiative <gti(a)greattransition.org> To: ashishkothari(a)riseup.net The Pedagogy of Transition: Educating for the Future We Want GTI Bulletin - May 2021 View in browser <https://mailchi.mp/greattransition/the-pedagogy-of-transition-educating-for…> <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d…> GTI Bulletin May 2021 Dear friends, Our new GTI Forum, The Pedagogy of Transition <https://greattransition.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=200b309cd11b2c2d…>, explores how to align education with emerging social and ecological imperatives. The times call for approaches that cultivate integrated knowledge and global citizenship, while preparing students for curious, well-informed, big-hearted lives. Instead, we continue to educate for a world we don’t want. Forward-looking educators confront the challenge at two levels: long-term efforts to adapt educational systems for a changing world and the near-term work creating alternative curricula and pedagogies within existing systems. The Forum is thus divided into two panels, *Frameworks* and *Practices*. The first appraises the state of education today, the factors maintaining its deficiencies, and strategies for its reformation. The second reports on the kinds of innovations already in the classroom (and beyond) that point the way forward. 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The Pluriversity for stuck humxns: A queer EcoPedagogy & Decolonial School
by Shrishtee Bajpai 07 May '21

07 May '21

Dear all, Sharing with you all a collaborative chapter (pdf attached below) written by 20 authors from across the world imagining the Pluriversity for stuck humxns-*Queer Ecopedagogies: Explorations in Nature, Sexuality, and Education*, 183. Take a look, share your comments and pass it on if you like it :) For more info contact Dylan McGarry (cc’d here) best wishes, shrishtee -- Shrishtee Bajpai Kalpavriksh/Vikalp Sangam/Global Tapestry of Alternatives/Rights of Rivers South Asia http://kalpavriksh.org www.vikalpsangam.org www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org https://rorsa.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/shrishtee?s=03 Insta: https://www.instagram.com/shrishtee.bajpai/

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Gender and sexuality in the neoliberal University: online conference, 27-28 May 2021
by Davis, Laurence 04 May '21

04 May '21

Dear all, The following online conference may be of interest to list members. The registration link (deadline of 25th May) is here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/gender-and-sexuality-in-the-neoliberal-unive… Further information: https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/ Kind regards, Laurence -- GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN THE NEOLIBERAL UNIVERSITY Interdisciplinary Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster De Montfort University, Online Conference, 27-28 May 2021 Website link: https://igsrcdmu393330702.wordpress.com/annual-conference/ THURSDAY 27 MAY UK time 9.30-9.40 Welcome Address Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) and Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University) 9.40-9.55 Conference Opening Jo Richardson (De Montfort University) 10.00-11.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE 1 Chair: Richard Hall (De Montfort University) Lisa Blackman (Goldsmith University): _Dis-ordering and estrangement in the neoliberal university: a crisis intervention_. 11-15-11.45 Coffee break 11.45-1.15 FINDING A PLACE Chair: Lidia Salvatori (University of Leicester) Karolina Krasuska, Ludmiła Janion & Marta Usiekniewicz (University of Warsaw): _Gender Studies under Review: Paradoxes of Academic Evaluation in Peripheral Neoliberalism and Illiberal Isolationism_. Mireille Rebeiz (Dickinson College): _Teaching While Arab in the United__ States of America. The pressures experienced by untenured women of color teaching in America in and outside the classroom._ Alena Sander (University of Louvain): _Producing knowledge with care. Building mutually caring researcher-research participants relationships_. 1.15—2.15 Lunch Break 2.15-3.15 GUEST OF HONOUR LECTURE Chair: Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University) Micheline Sheehy Skeffington (National University of Ireland, Galway): _Taking on an Irish university with neoliberal values; winning my gender equality case and how it went viral._ 3.15-3.45 MARKETISATION AND RESISTANCE Chair: Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) Lili Schwoerer (London School of Economics): _Pushing against and moving beyond institutional regulation – Feminist knowledge production and utopian imaginaries._ Joanna Chojnicka & Łukasz Pakuła (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland): _When the obligation to be neutral becomes the right to discriminate: discursive struggles over LGBTQIA+ rights at Polish universities._ FRIDAY 28 MAY 9.30-10.30 GENDER PRESSURE, GENDER VIOLENCE Chair: Nicole Fayard (University of Leicester) Barbara Biglia (Universitat Rovira I Virgili), Itziar Gandarias Goikoetxea (Univerisad de Deusto), Pilar Parra Contreras (Universidad Compultense de Madrid) & Luz Martinez (Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona): S_ame roots, different experience: Visibilising and measuring intersectional effects on Gender-Related Violence within the neoliberal university._ Anna Hush (University of New South Wales, Australia): _In the belly of the beast: Feminist resistance to sexual violence in the Australian neoliberal University._ 10.30-11.00 Coffee Break 11-12.15 KEYNOTE LECTURE 2 Chair: Federica Formato (The University of Brighton) Helen Sauntson (York St John University): _Language, gender and sexuality in the neoliberal academy: Contributions from applied linguistics_. 12.15-2.00 Lunch Break 2.00-3.30 PRODUCING KNOWLEDGE OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY Chair: Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) Elia A.G. Arfini (CRAAAZI, Bologna (IT)/University of Milan): _Performing the Institution, perverting the Academia, reproducing struggles._ Elspeth Mitchell (University of Leeds) & Lenka Vráblíková (University of South Africa, UNISA): _Out of Office: Mychorrizal Encounters and feminist paths through/beyond the University_. Carlotta Cossutta & Elisa Virgili (Università del Piemonte Orientale): _Teaching Gender in Prison._ 3.30-4.00 Coffee Break 4.00-5.15 ROUND TABLE Chair: Michela Baldo (University of Birmingham) and Marion Krauthaker (De Montfort University) In conversation with the contributors of Spaccademia (Le Nine, Beatrice Gusmano, Elena Pavan, Gruppo Femminismi Pisa).

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[GTA] GTA's Newsletter #04 - May 2021
by Shrishtee Bajpai 04 May '21

04 May '21

Dear all, Here is the fourth issue of Global Tapestry of Alternatives newsletter bringing in news and updates from around the world on transformative alternatives and processes. Take a look and share among your networks. Best, Shrishtee (On behalf of GTA core team) GTA's Newsletter #04 - May 2021 *The contents of this newsletter are also available online in this webpage <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:04:index>.* Editorial Dear readers, It is our pleasure to share Global Tapestry of Alternatives' third newsletter with you. The Global Tapestry of Alternatives or GTA as a process or a dialogue began in 2014 and was officially launched in the year 2019. The Global Tapestry of Alternatives seeks to build bridges between networks of Alternatives around the globe and promote the creation of new processes of confluence. You can know more about the project, in our introductory note. This newsletter comes to you at times of immense uncertainties that pose very serious challenges and have social, economic, political, cultural and ecological implications for most of us. The attempt of this newsletter is to bring to you the news, perspectives, thoughts, ideas, reflections, and dialogues on alternatives to the current dominant regime. Importantly, what can do they offer us as pathways towards just, equitable and ecologically wise futures. It is a humble attempt to bring together the collective envisioning of these pluriversal alternatives by creating a space for sharing and dialoguing. We intend to share this newsletter every two months to share perspectives, news on activities being seeded through GTA, as well as perspectives/news/thoughts/questions from tapestry weavers and endorsing organisations and networks. We do not see it as a newsletter that is simply a conglomeration of news/updates but rather as a process of knowing each-others' work, engaging with ideas, facilitating collaborations and initiating co-writing and co-learning processes. Yes, the objectives are ambitious and that is why we need your support, your contributions and engagement. We invite you to this sharing, reflecting, dialoguing, healing, and envisioning space. This newsletter features updates from our weavers in India (Vikalp Sangam), Mexico (Crianza Mutua), and Colombia (Crianza Mutua), updates on GTA's activities, community responses and perspectives in these times from our endorsing networks- The African Earth Jurisprudence Collective, Global Alliance for Rights of Nature, Global Ecovillage Network, and a fascinating piece by eco-feminist Ariel Salleh. This newsletter is compiled by: Shrishtee Bajpai, Anna Hedin, Upamanyu Das and Franco Augusto. News from GTA Webinars and online activities Weaving Systemic Alternatives from the Global South *A conversation with the Global Tapestry of Alternatives, presented by EDGE Founders Alliance <https://edgefunders.org/>* May 11th 14:00- 15:30 UTC - Register now <https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_0WU9mM6sR5WfAtNGyq-RoQ> As the world struggles to find ways out of multiple global crises (ecological, climate, inequality, health), we need to heed myriad voices emerging from Indigenous Peoples and other local rural and urban communities. There are thousands of alternatives, grounded in specific ecological and socio-economic contexts, and based on diverse worldviews and ethics that are profoundly different from the currently dominant system. These alternatives cover the full range of human concerns, including food, water, health, education, livelihoods, governance, culture, justice, while attempting to sustain all life on earth. They are, however, often isolated and fragmented. There is a need to build more bridges amongst them to enable cross-cultural and cross-sectoral collaborations, mutual learning and critical engagement, collective envisioning of possible futures, and a critical mass for macro-change. The Global Tapestry of Alternatives (GTA) aims to be a non-hierarchical process, seeking to weave together myriad networks of alternatives across the world. Though formally initiated in 2019, it builds on much longer experience of related work by its constituents. The webinar will present this vision, illustrated by real-life experiences from various parts of the world, and the kind of actions being undertaken or proposed by GTA to achieve its objectives. The list of speakers from GTA includes Arturo Escobar (Colombia), Marta Music (ex-Yugoslavia); Alejandra Jiménez Ramírez (Mexico); Ashish Kothari (India) and Vasna Ramasar (South Africa). Feminist Alternatives to the "New Normality" Inspired by the work of community support networks of marginalized groups located on the peripheries of institutional power, the aim of this webinar is to explore feminist alternatives to the new normality which go beyond the State and policy recommendations. This activity will bring together members of different feminist movements, organizations and collectives from the “Global South” to continue amplifying grassroots feminist alternatives that emerged during the pandemic and collectively explore how to build and consolidate feminist economies and societies centered around care and the sustainability of life. This webinar took place on past March 13th. The video recording is available online in our website <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars:2021:01>. News from the Weavers Vikalp Sangam updates In the month of December, the national core group of the VikalpSangam process (which includes 67 organisations and networks from all over India) met virtually to reflect on the year long activities of VS, how communities and networks are responding to crises, the proposals of holding gatherings of alternatives on various themes like health, disability, and data/privacy. The meeting was focused on reflecting on the VS process, its activities and its relevance in these exceptional times. A third youth alternatives confluence was organised online with about 30 to 35 youth and a few facilitators and speakers from across the country (all of whom may not fit into the classic definition of ‘youth’!).The confluence attempted to share hope, learn, dialogue, discuss and more; build friendships that we carry into the future. The three thematic sessions during the sangam were: Visioning Alternatives: Exploring what would make for an Alternative world - Sustainable Livelihoods and Resilience - Sustaining Movements and Building Synergies Updates from Crianzas Mutuas by *Patricia Botero-Gómez* and *Alejandra Jimenez* The process of mutual nurturing has been sharing knowledge, knowledge, solidarity between peoples, groups and communities in resistance. In the second meeting of mutual nurturing we shared with 38 groups linked to peoples, organizations and communities in processes of defense of life from the autonomic resistance, we formed learning communities with which we have been interacting in each of the bioregions and with some itineraries to the processes of each territory. Weaving from below has become one of the most forceful ways to create alternatives to mega-projects of development from the custody and care of the seeds, the same that allow us to heal ourselves and the earth. Likewise, we have strengthened the tapestry of different processes and paths with which we agree on the importance of strengthening communicative autonomies for counter-hegemonic purposes; share experiences from the Pluriveresities of on foot (Pluriversidades de a pie), guard the stories from the narratives of sisterhood, and the personal and communal, all of them as practices that we do to defend life, joy and dignity. In this way, with our tissues we try to suture broken intergenerational, socio-territorial and communal weavings, sharing our forms of action from our own experiences, beyond localism and globalism, is a source of co-inspiration for all worlds. Also, in recent months the pandemic has been a challenge that we have been facing, without ceasing to continue weaving and sharing our paths, by the means we have at our disposal today, seeking in the near future the possibility of having face-to-face meetings. We recently inaugurated our radio space, which we named “Crianza Mutua. Experiences of new worlds”, which we will be transmitting weekly through Radio Unitierra <http://giss.tv:8000/radiounitierra.mp3> and different friendly community radio stations such as Radio Padiushri. In this first transmission we had the interview of the independent editorial collective: “Fusilemos la noche”. We invite you to listen to it soon on Untierra's Sound Cloud Site <https://soundcloud.com/unitierra>. Updates from the endorsers New endorsers - African Biodiversity Network - International Network of Mountain Indigenous Peoples - MINGAnet (Colombia) - Alexander Dunlap, Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo, Norway. - Martha Giraldo, Colombian, naturist, Coordinator for MINGAnet a network of networks to life care. The African Earth Jurisprudence Collective: Navigating towards a Resilient Future by *The African Earth Jurisprudence Collective* A new, uniquely African hope is emerging to counter threats to the continent’s most precious ecosystems and to revive ways of life that restore the relationship between communities and their lands and waters after centuries of colonial harm. The African Earth Jurisprudence Collective is made up of dedicated Earth Jurisprudence Practitioners from across East, West, Central and Southern Africa, working closely with The Gaia Foundation and the Siama Programme. Together they accompany local and Indigenous communities to put into practice African alternatives to the destructive industrial development model, helping to navigate towards a more resilient future for the continent. *Keep reading -> <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:04:aejc>* Nature is alive, she has rights by *Natalia Greene* for Global Alliance for Rights of Nature Nature is alive, and she has the right to exist. This seems obvious; even a child wouldn’t question this assessment. Why then isn’t Nature rec-ognised as a subject of rights in local, national and global jurisprudence? The answer is that people are afraid that if Nature has rights, it will challenge corporate power and thereby the economy. However, it’s important to remember that the Latin root for ‘economy’ is eco, oikos, home, for our home. Our planet is at risk, and so are all her inhabitants. To regain the harmoni-ous balance, we need systemic change and recognising the rights of Nature is that ground-breaking paradigm shift. *Keep reading -> <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:04:nature>* Building the New Normal by *Global Ecovillage Network* “Until living from a place of love within becomes the New Normal, our global problems that are symptoms of that love’s absence, will remain.” During this past year, we have heard the term “the New Normal” buzzing around in many countries around the world. It has generally been associated with social distancing, work from home, heightened hygiene, as well as empty roads, skyrocketing online shopping, and closed borders. *Keep reading -> <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:04:gen>* Re-Worlding—with a Pluriversal New Deal by *Ariel Salleh* So where to start but with the Anthropocene, this non-sensical civilisation where the ‘means’ to life has overtaken ‘ends’. The Eurocentric fantasy of mastering nature has always been a problematic ontology. Ecologically minded feminists believe this ancient drive to power re-enacts a sublimated form of ‘mother killing’, allowing men to ‘birth themselves culturally’ without dependence on mysterious natural flows. In any event, pandemic anxieties have released a shadow epidemic of terror by men on to the bodies of women. French statistics show a 30-per-cent rise in domestic violence; in Australia the figure is said to be 50 per cent. *Keep reading -> <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/newsletters:04:ariel>* *Global Tapestry of Alternatives* *contact(a)globaltapestryofalternatives.org <contact(a)globaltapestryofalternatives.org>* To subscribe and get our updates, visit this link <https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/contact> --- To unsubscribe from this list, send an email to this address: global-tapestry-alternatives-observers-unsubscribe(a)lists.riseup.net

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Alternative Worldviews - Booklaunch of "Sharing Life: The Ecopolitics of Reciprocity and Discussion, April 22nd, 5:30 PM
by Shrishtee Bajpai 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

Hello all, This might be of interest to some of you. [image: hbs Webinar zoom-01.jpg] Book Launch & Discussion - Alternative Worldviews: SHARING LIFE The Ecopolitics of Reciprocity We invite you to join us for Book Launch and Discussion on Ecology, biodiversity and charting alternative ecological and political landscapes for our common ecological future. [image: Calendar]April 22, 2021 Thursday [image: Wristwatch]17:30 IST / 14:00 CEST [image: Personal computer]Zoom Register: https://zoom.us/webinar/regist er/WN_NnfYc3iTRKKIMlOKIV3oFg… <https://t.co/HRQNHYgmqF?amp=1> Evolving around the main essay, contributions to this assemblage reflect a common understanding that ecology and biodiversity needs to be reclaimed – and constantly generated – as a process of lived and living realities in a system of reciprocal relationships. In this book-launch webinar, four authors share excerpts of their contributions. Drawing their individual alternative ecological and political landscapes, they re-create an image of such interwoven linkages and invite the audience to listen and to reflect about various facets of a common ecological future. *With:* *Andreas Weber*, Eco Philosopher, marine biologist and author of the main essay. Based in Germany and Italy, Andreas develops a “Biopoetics”, a new understanding of life as an embodied process of subjectivity and shared meaning. Teaching Ecophilosophy at the University of the Arts, Berlin, he is adjunct professor at IIT Guwahati, India. *Shristee Bajpai*, researcher-activist based in India and member of the environmental action group Kalpavriksh. Shristee’s research is focussed on exploring alternatives to mainstream development models, documenting worldviews of communities and networking. *Sonal Jain*, working at the intersection of art, ecology, technology and activism in India and worldwide. Sonal has shown her work at prominent venues like: Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York and The Venice Biennale. *Kaustubh Deka*, teaches Political Science at Dibrugarh University, Assam, India. Kaustubh’s work concentrates on ecological politics, youth politics, identity assertion and inquiries into understanding the category of Northeast India. *Minna Salami*, Nigerian-Finnish and Swedish writer, will moderate and contextualize the webinar’s dialogue. As founder of the multiple award-winning blog, MsAfropolitan, Minna connects feminism with critical reflections on contemporary culture from an Africa-centred perspective. Opening remarks by *Marion Regina Müller* (Country Director, hbs Regional Office, New Delhi) Kindly register here to join: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_NnfYc3iTRKKIMlOKIV3oFg For any query: alternative-worldviews(a)in.boell.org Follow us at Instagram: @boell_in Twitter: @boell_India

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Course on Development, Displacement & Human Rights
by Ashish Kothari 22 Apr '21

22 Apr '21

Dear colleagues, you can find the syllabus and material for a course on Development, Displacement and Human Rights here: https://www.graduateinstitute.ch/academic-departments/development-displacem… I am copying in Miloon, the course director, in case anyone wants to get in touch directly, ashish -- 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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Fwd: FW: The Earth Day Roundtable on “Food Security and Food Sovereignty"
by Prakash Kashwan 20 Apr '21

20 Apr '21

Dear GTA Friends: This round table should be of interest to you, your colleagues, and the students. One special feature here is an active dialogue between the U.S.-centered food justice movement and the international discussions focused on food sovereignty etc. We promise a thought provoking panel discussion here. Best wishes, Prakash **Registration Link at the bottom** *April 22, 2021--- 2PM EST * *The Earth Day Roundtable on “Food Security and Food Sovereignty" * * Roundtable co-sponsored by the Research Program on Economic & Social Rights and the Human Rights Institute. This is a UConn Reads Event.* *Panelists* Annette Desmarais <https://umanitoba.ca/faculties/arts/departments/sociology/facstaff/3497.html>, Canada Research Chair in Human Rights, Social Justice and Food Sovereignty at University of Manitoba Michael Fakhri <https://law.uoregon.edu/people/directory/mfakhri>, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Maywa Montenegro <https://envs.ucsc.edu/faculty/index.php?uid=mamonten>, Assistant Professor, Environmental Studies Department, University of California, Santa Cruz. *Moderator* Prakash Kashwan <https://humanrights.uconn.edu/person/prakash-kashwan/>, Associate Professor, Political Science & Co-Director, Research Program on Economic & Social Rights at the University of Connecticut Transformative changes in the global and national food systems are central to the pursuits of social justice for racial minorities and Indigenous peoples, the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs, specifically Goal 2 of Zero Hunger), and meaningful climate action. Despite broad-based consensus on each of these goals, significant debates continue about the specific pathways to ensure rapid progress on these goals. While the United Nations and other international agencies continue to emphasize the goals of food security, food justice advocates insist on making food sovereignty the central plank for global and national policies and programs. Furthermore, the UN Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas (UNDROP), adopted in December 2018, constitutes an important intervention for ensuring the accountability of states and agribusiness actors. This roundtable brings together noted food activists and academics to brainstorm the future of the right to food and a hunger free world within the context of the ongoing environmental and climate crisis. The panelists will explore the role that grassroots agroecology movements could play in influencing the nature and the outcomes of anticipated changes in the existing food systems. Registration Link: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIpdu-rqDsvH9EGLUbnuLI6ExYKt2mT6ivS

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La juventud india tiene el derecho y el deber a resistir y crear. Los mayores deben permitirlo o apartarse / India's Youth Have a Right & a Duty to Resist and Create
by Ashish Kothari 15 Apr '21

15 Apr '21

Amigos/amigas, este articulo puede ser de interés: La juventud india tiene el derecho y el deber a resistir y crear. Los mayores deben permitirlo o apartarse https://espai-marx.net/?p=9279 Gracias, Carlos, por la traduccion! Por favor, devuélveme los comentarios (directamente) y no escribas en las listas completas, a menos que quieras iniciar un diálogo al respecto que creas que puede interesar a otros. Original in English: India’s Youth Have a Right and Duty to Resist and Create; Elders Need to Enable This or Get Out of the Way <https://vikalpsangam.org/article/indias-youth-have-a-right-and-duty-to-resi…> <https://vikalpsangam.org/article/indias-youth-have-a-right-and-duty-to-resi…> Also given below are previous related pieces. As usual, comments back to me (directly) are welcome, pl don't write back on full lists unless you'd like to start a dialogue on this that you think others may be interested in. ashish ---------------------------------------- Friends, this article on the ongoing attack by the Indian state, on youth activists, may be of interest, https://countercurrents.org/2021/03/caught-in-the-crossfire-young-activists… Comments back to me (directly) are welcome, pl don't write back on full lists unless you'd like to start a dialogue on this that you think others may be interested in. Tambien, traduccion al Espanol de articulo "State must not defame youth standing with farmers. It's the future they are fighting for": https://rebelion.org/una-caja-de-herramientas-para-el-cambio/ (Original in English: https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/state-must-not-defame-you…) Los comentarios pueden enviarse directamente a mí y no a las listas, gracias, Ashish > 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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Power to the Radical Imagination! Online, experiential, global learning journey. Starting April 19th
by Gerardo López Amaro 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

Dear friends, Join us and circulate the invitation between your networks. In solidarity. Gerardo [image: image.jpeg] Power to the Radical Imagination! Love and care in times of chaos <http://www.yatra.global>A Global, Experiential and Somatic Learning Journey Online. April 19-May 12. Mondays and Wednesdays, 9-11 am Mexico City time, 4-6pm CET, 7:30-9:30pm India (convert to your local time here) <https://www.thetimezoneconverter.com>. Sign up here <https://events.humanitix.com/power-to-the-radical-imagination> ! The Ecoversities Alliance is one of the most diverse and powerful global movements to imagine education and learning differently, and on this journey you can discover why. Throughout the duration of a moon, we will collectively make a yatra, *a journey with all the senses, visiting 21 initiatives in 16 countries*, being greeted by local hosts, leaders in the field of putting into action radical imagination, love and care in these times of chaos. This online journey, over 8 sessions, will be guided by a team dedicated to art, research, activism, and experiential, somatic and creative learning to accompany change in order to relate in freedom, joy and solidarity to interweave those other possible worlds that are heard beating in each of the experiences that we will visit. Your trip includes: - Accompaniment of the team of local hosts and organizing team; - Recorded sessions for later reference during the time of the trip; - Somatic Movement sessions and talking circle; - Participation in discussion forums and social networks of the trip. Sign up here <https://events.humanitix.com/power-to-the-radical-imagination> ! Help us send the word out and circulate this invitation between your networks! More info: www.yatra.global [image: global yatra poster.jpg] [image: Global Yatra.jpg]

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Fwd: Solidarity in Action - Forum Event 3, 15th April 2021 [RSVP]
by Ashish Kothari 08 Apr '21

08 Apr '21

Friends, this may be of interest, ashish -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Solidarity in Action - Forum Event 3, 15th April 2021 [RSVP] Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2021 09:35:41 +0100 From: Solidarity in Action Network <solidarityinactionnetwork(a)gmail.com> To: Solidarity in Action Network <solidarityinactionnetwork(a)gmail.com> Dear All, You are warmly invited to the 3rd online Forum of the international *Solidarity in Action Network* on Thursday 15th April 2021, 2-5pm GMT (UK time). The theme is *'The Pedagogy of Solidarity in Two Provocations'.* * * * /*The Coloniality of Solidarity* - Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández/ Solidarity figures prominently in educational projects committed to social change. Yet what precisely solidarity entails, for whom, doing what, and under what conditions is usually only vaguely defined and often in contradictory terms, even when solidarity is a centrepiece of the work at hand. In this brief talk, Gaztambide-Fernández will unpack what the multifarious uses of the concept of solidarity reveal about the colonial and racist underpinnings of the concept and how these are revealed in contemporary uses. He will argue that without paying attention to its colonial and racist underpinnings, any project that invokes the concept of solidarity risks reissuing these logics. /Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández is Professor of Curriculum & Pedagogy and Editor-in-Chief of the journal Curriculum Inquiry at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education of the University of Toronto. His research and scholarship are concerned with questions of symbolic boundaries and the dynamics of cultural production and processes of identification in educational contexts. His theoretical work focuses on the relationship between cultural production and solidarity./ // * /*How institutions (un)learn?: some ideas around issues of solidarity, community and pedagogy* - Javier Rodrigo/ This presentation will explain how to approach solidarity issues through pedagogical projects in Barcelona, Spain, by examining two particular, contrasting experiences. One, is in collaboration with a group of youth migrants, in the context of a memory museum. The other is a community-run theatre, based on participatory budgeting and direct democracy with special emphasis on community and intercultural criteria for programme development. Both of these examples are presented in order to raise the issue of the need for an institutional pedagogy and to raise a core question of cultural institutions: How do institutions (Un)learn? /Javier Rodrigo is coordinator of Transductores <https://transductores.info/>, a platform about cultural politics, critical mediation, direct cultural democracy and experiments on governance and commons. See more of his writing here <https://independent.academia.edu/JavierRodrigo>./ *There will be an opportunity to question both speakers, before breaking into groups to tackle a series of particular challenges provided by the speakers. * *Some reading in preparation for the Forum* In advance of the 15th April, we request that, ideally, most people will have read at least one of the articles provided by Rubén A. Gaztambide-Fernández below. The first two are short and written for a popular audience, one in English and one in Spanish, and similar in content. The second one is a bit longer and more academic. Here are the links: * Short piece about solidarity <https://theconversation.com/what-is-solidarity-during-coronavirus-and-alway…> in English * Similar piece as above, but in Spanish <https://www.80grados.net/el-llamado-a-la-solidaridad/> for those who can read it and are interested * Longer and more academic piece, Decolonization and the Pedagogies of Solidarity <https://jps.library.utoronto.ca/index.php/des/article/view/18633> *RSVP* We very much hope that as many participants as possible from the Solidarity in Action Network will be able to attend this event on *Thursday 15th April*. Please can you RSVP by *Tuesday 13th* to solidarityinactionnetwork(a)gmail.com <mailto:[email protected]> (or on the website) and you will then be sent a* calendar invitation*. Looking forward to seeing you and our many new members there. In solidarity, Bernadette -- */Solidarity in Action Network/* e: SolidarityInActionNetwork(a)gmail.com <mailto:[email protected]>

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