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Learnings
for
Alternative
Futures -
a Webinar
series
Cosmopolitical
learning: some
reflections on
praxis
with
Udi
Mandel,
Gerardo
Lopez-Amaro,
Kelly Teamey
and Rosemary
Logan
Wednesday
November 16th
- 16:00
(UTC/GMT)
This
session brings
together
friends
affiliated
with the
Enlivened
Cooperative
who have been
engaging in
what we have
been referring
to as
cosmopolitical
learning. This
refers to the
practice of
learning with,
in between,
across and
beyond
distinct
ontologies,
especially
alongside
indigenous
teachers and
in/from place.
Cosmopolitics,
first coined
by philosopher
of science
Isabelle
Stengers
(2005), is a
concept
intended as an
antidote, a
slowing down,
to the
practices and
processes of
the
ontological
commitments
characteristic
of modernity.
This opens the
possibility of
engaging with
the cosmos as
not a
predetermined
entity already
named and
described
according to
particular
disciplinary
methods and
epistemologies,
but rather as
messy, plural
and becoming,
open to other
ways of
knowing and
being in
relationship
with. At the
same,
cosmopolitics
brings into
focus how
non-human
actors, such
as mountains,
forests,
rivers and
others are
also subjects
and political
beings who
ought to be
included into
the
constitutional
arrangements
of how we
order our
world.
In
the session we
will share
experiences
from Mexico,
Peru, Hawai’i,
New Zealand
and the US
that engage
with these
practices and
the kinds of
learning that
has emerged
from
participants.
Further, the
seminar will
be an
opportunity to
collectively
reflect on
what this kind
of work looks
like in the
contexts and
practices that
you engage
with and how
we might
support each
other in this
kind of work.
About
the presenters
Udi
Mandel
Over
the last 20
years Udi has
been active in
ethnographic
and
participatory
action
research on
issues of
social,
ecological and
epistemic
justice and
regenerative
practices that
can bring
human and
ecological
flourishing.
He has taught
social
anthropology,
communication
and
sustainability
in
universities
in the UK, US,
Brazil and
Costa Rica and
collaborated
with
communities in
Europe, the
Pacific, North
and Latin
America,
especially
with
indigenous and
grassroots
organizations.
With other
friends he
co-founded the
Enlivened
Cooperative,
Enlivened
Learning and
the
Ecoversities
Alliance.
Gerardo
Lopez-Amaro
His interests
include
co-labor,
participatory-action
research with
people in
territories
where stained
experiments
and practices
around Buen
Vivir and
cognitive,
climate and
relational
justice are
taking place,
participating
in a
planetary,
trans-generational
learning
ecosystem to
birth worlds
of dignity.
Kelly
Teamey
She has been
active in the
fields of
international/sustainable
development
and education
for the past
20 years. Her
work has
focused on
critical
approaches to
educational
policy and
practices
within
internation-
al development
contexts,
looking
particularly
at how
education,
learning, and
pedagogies can
become
transformative,
holistic, and
sustainably
con- nected to
local
ecologies and
communities.
Rosemary
Logan
She has spent
the last
20+years
teaching at
the
intersections
of
sustainability
education,
transformative
learning and
sustainable
food systems.
From
integrative
and
participatory,
community-based research and learning in museums and K-12 schools to
sustainable
food systems,
field-based
learning, and
permaculture
design within
higher
education, she
seeks to
create spaces
for learning
that nurture
transformations
of self,
community, and
the earth.
Our
past webinar
sessions
videos are
available in this link.
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