Dear PeDAGoG colleagues, pl. see below and attached, this may be of interest. I am copying in Rosalyn in case any of you want to get in touch with her directly. I have also suggested she joins the group.

ashish



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Subject: Re: research collaborations on creating a cosmopolitics of climate change
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:09:30 +0000
From: Bold, Rosalyn <r.bold@ucl.ac.uk>
To: singhvan@rcn.com <singhvan@rcn.com>, Ashish Kothari <ashishkotharialternative@gmail.com>
CC: Nagraj Adve <nagraj.adve@gmail.com>, soumyadutta_delhi@rediffmail.com <soumyadutta_delhi@rediffmail.com>, sagdhara@gmail.com <sagdhara@gmail.com>


Dear all,

Further to my email the other day, I am enclosing a syllabus for a postgraduate course I wrote on cosmopolitics and how the notion has been taken up by the ontological turn to compose a radical challenge to modern hegemonies of state conduct and treatment of indigenous peoples.

I would be happy to give such a course in India to further understanding of the field, and with the aim of establishing future research collaborations with staff. We hope to have a large conference at UCL on Cosmopolitics of Climate Change in 2023, and this is an ideal opportunity for me to contact scholars interested in participatory work on these themes.

Best wishes,

Rosalyn

Dr. Rosalyn Bold

Honorary Research Fellow

Department of Social Anthropology
University College London.

From: Bold, Rosalyn <r.bold@ucl.ac.uk>
Sent: 10 January 2021 18:02
To: singhvan@rcn.com <singhvan@rcn.com>; Ashish Kothari <ashishkotharialternative@gmail.com>
Cc: Nagraj Adve <nagraj.adve@gmail.com>; soumyadutta_delhi@rediffmail.com <soumyadutta_delhi@rediffmail.com>; sagdhara@gmail.com <sagdhara@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: research collaborations on creating a cosmopolitics of climate change
 
Hello everyone,

Many thanks for your replies Ashish and Vandana, it's great to hear from you. 

I am very interested in the work of Kalpa Vikrish, and find the closest similarities to my research direction expressed in your note 'Can we collectively search for frameworks and visions that pose fundamental alternatives to today’s dominant economic and political system? How can such frameworks and visions build on an existing heritage of ideas and worldviews and cultures, and on past or new grassroots practice?'

I hope to bring perspectives from Latin America on these issues, constituting indigenous alternatives to 'development' and accompanying extractivist ideologies, and to learn about Indian alternatives and worldviews.

Good to be in touch with you all. I'd love to organise a seminar series, wherever in the country would be the most relevant or even in more than one location. It could also be interesting to situate myself with a department as a Visiting Fellow, wherever a concentration of scholars interested in collaborating on these issues are located. I welcome your suggestions. Many thanks for opening up networks Ashish and Vandana.

Best wishes, and anticipating hearing more from you soon!

Rosalyn

Dr. Rosalyn Bold

Honorary Research Fellow

Department of Social Anthropology
University College London.

From: singhvan@rcn.com <singhvan@rcn.com>
Sent: 10 January 2021 17:45
To: Ashish Kothari <ashishkotharialternative@gmail.com>
Cc: Nagraj Adve <nagraj.adve@gmail.com>; Bold, Rosalyn <r.bold@ucl.ac.uk>; soumyadutta_delhi@rediffmail.com <soumyadutta_delhi@rediffmail.com>; sagdhara@gmail.com <sagdhara@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: research collaborations on creating a cosmopolitics of climate change
 
Dear Rosalyn (thanks, Ashish, for forwarding), 

Your work sounds really intriguing and important!  I'm a physicist working on a transdisciplinary, justice-centred climate pedagogy, with insights from experiences of indigenous people.  I'm also interested in the ontological issues around climate change, especially as articulated in Indigenous futurisms, and as a speculative fiction writer.  I've read some Haraway and Barad, although not an expert by any means.  I will look through the link you included in your email to Ashish.  I'll also think about names of scholars in India who might be helpful (I'm based in the US although my focus with regard to community experiences of climate change is India).  My friend Nagraj, copied here, is based in Delhi and will, I am sure, be able to suggest something.  I suspect there will be many scholars in India interested in hearing from you about your work - once I have a better idea of it, I will write back with suggestions. 

Thanks for getting in touch! 

Vandana

From: "Ashish Kothari" <ashishkotharialternative@gmail.com>
To: "Rosalyn Bold" <r.bold@ucl.ac.uk>
Cc: "Nagraj Adve" <nagraj.adve@gmail.com>, "Vandana Singh" <singhvan@rcn.com>, "Soumya Dutta" <soumyadutta_delhi@rediffmail.com>, "Sagar Dhara" <sagdhara@gmail.com>
Sent: Friday, January 8, 2021 5:38:20 AM
Subject: Re: research collaborations on creating a cosmopolitics of climate change

Dear Rosalyn,

thanks for your mail ... I am connecting you two forums, Teachers Against Climate Change, and the South Asia Peoples Action on Climate Crisis (SAPACC), that I think would be ideal for your purpose ... and through them and pehraps in collaboration with Vikalp Sangam process (www.vikalpsangam.org) if necessary, there could be some events like what you suggest below ... Nagaraj, Vandana, Soumya, Sagar, marked here, should be able to suggest more.


Climate is really not my area of work in any specific way, so its best you discuss with them ...


generally on the issue of what you call cosmopolitics, the attached may be of use ... our work has been on such issues, which are of course linked to climate crisis (what is not?), but not directly or explicitly so.


thanks,

ashish


On 07/01/21 12:22 am, Bold, Rosalyn wrote:

Dear Sir,

I am a scholar of environmental anthropology at University College London and will be visiting India early 2021. Although my regular fieldsite is Latin America, I am looking to learn about and collaborate with colleagues working on similar issues to myself in India, expanding research horizons and collaborating across continents, creating a cosmopolitics of climate change. Your work was recommended by my colleague Sahil Nijhawan, and I have enjoyed reading your articles and research initiatives.

I am currently working on Creating a Cosmopolitics of Climate Change, and have published a volume on perceptions of climate change among diverse Latin American indigenous communities, dealing with whether they consider we are at 'the end of the world', how worlds have ended before, and whether new worlds are possible. Indigenous communities are as I´m sure you`re aware employing non-modern worlding practices as powerful forms of activism against extractivist projects; my work lies loosely within the political ontology school, proposing we view contrasting cosmological currents interacting in cosmoscapes.
This volume, edited by Rosalyn Bold, brings together perspectives from Central America, Mexico, the Amazon, and the Andes to bear on scientific, hegemonic narratives of climate change to create cracks that open the way for new worlds into being for readers.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rosalyn_Bold3

I am greatly interested in the Indian scholarship on these and related themes, and wonder if it might be possible to arrange a shared seminar series whilst I am in the country, or to participate in existing series on these themes? I would be happy to share my work in whatever forms you might suggest, and would be very interested to learn more of contemporary relevant scholarship and activism in South Asia.

Best wishes

Rosalyn

Dr. Rosalyn Bold

Honorary Research Fellow

Department of Social Anthropology
University College London.