Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> wrote:

William Morris, News from Nowhere

Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland

Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available, there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction)

Ashish

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On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:

Dear all,

What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based futures ?

Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/ young adults. Ours are as follows: 1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative writing for young adults fictionalising the famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining ) 2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School 3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation by Samuel Alexander 4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers 5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many". 6. The following chapters in Alternative futures: Ch 35, Looking Back into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645), and Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)

What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a reading list for Young Adults?

Many thanks in advance!

Pallavi

https://naitaleem.wordpress.com/

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Dave Goulson (2019)/The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet/ Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex - and a really good writer who mixes up his practical gardening experiences with the science stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might be 'too English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well as plants, and while each place has specific interactions going on, the principles behind them are all the same, and these are relevant everywhere.  I wish this book had been around when I started gardening in my teens. Christine On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman wrote:

Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical example of solidarity ethics amidst cultural change

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:19 PM John Foran <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

William Morris, News from Nowhere

Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland

Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available, there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction)

Ashish

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Ashish Kothari Kalpavriksh Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa 908 Deccan Gymkhana Pune 411004, India Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450 http://kalpavriksh.org www.vikalpsangam.org <http://www.vikalpsangam.org> www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org <http://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org> www.iccaconsortium.org <http://www.iccaconsortium.org> www.acknowlej.org <http://www.acknowlej.org> http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in/ Twitter: @chikikothari

On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:

...

Dear all,

What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based futures ?

Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/ young adults. Ours are as follows: 1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative writing for young adults fictionalising the famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining ) 2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School 3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation  by Samuel Alexander 4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers 5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many". 6. The following chapters in  Alternative futures: Ch 35,  Looking Back into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645), and  Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)

What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a reading list for Young Adults?

Many thanks in advance!

Pallavi

https://naitaleem.wordpress.com/

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And of course there is the old *Ecotopia <https://www.amazon.com/Ecotopia-40th-Anniversary-Ernest-Callenbach/dp/159714293X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ecotopia+by+ernest+callenbach&qid=1600047635&s=books&sr=1-1>* by Ernst Callenbach On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

Older teens might appreciate Ursula K. Le Guin's works of speculative fiction: 1. The classic short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-... 2. The Dispossessed, which depicts a detailed imaginative fictional anarchist (communitarian) utopia and its capitalist/ feudal counterpart 3. Always Coming Home, a depiction of a future California inspired by Native ways of being, structurally not a novel at all, but quite amazing in my opinion.

Also of interest is Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, a small book about a fictional utopian community in California working out the balance between human and ecological well-being. And The Memory of Water, by Finnish writer Emmi Itaranta.

I appreciate all the suggestions - must expand my reading list! Best,

Vandana

------------------------------ *From: *"Christine Dann" <[email protected]> *To: *[email protected] *Sent: *Sunday, September 13, 2020 5:11:51 PM *Subject: *Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for Young Adults?

Dave Goulson (2019)* The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet*

Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex - and a really good writer who mixes up his practical gardening experiences with the science stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might be 'too English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well as plants, and while each place has specific interactions going on, the principles behind them are all the same, and these are relevant everywhere. I wish this book had been around when I started gardening in my teens.

Christine

On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman wrote:

Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical example of solidarity ethics amidst cultural change

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:19 PM John Foran <[email protected]> wrote:

...

Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> wrote:

...

William Morris, News from Nowhere

Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland

Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available, there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction)

Ashish

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On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:

Dear all,

What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based futures ?

Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/ young adults. Ours are as follows: 1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative writing for young adults fictionalising the famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining ) 2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School 3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation by Samuel Alexander 4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers 5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many". 6. The following chapters in Alternative futures: Ch 35, Looking Back into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645), and Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)

What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a reading list for Young Adults?

Many thanks in advance!

Pallavi

https://naitaleem.wordpress.com/

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Dear all Apologies for self-advertisement But I have written a book Titled ‘The art of organising hope’ which engages with Ernst Bloch’s principle of hope and speaks of social movements in Latin America I can send the pdf to you In case you want to take a look Ana Dr Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (PhD, FHEA) Department of Social and Policy Sciences University of Bath - Claverton Down - BATH, BS2 7AY - UK - Tel. +44(0)1225 386958 Criitical Research on the Global Politics of hope SWDTP Standing Seminar in Critical Theory Social Movements/Activist Research Book Series for Pluto Press– Proposals welcome! Global Tapestry of Alternatives Forthcoming A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State Between Crisis and Utopia, EMERALD (with F.H.Pitts) January 2021

On 14 Sep 2020, at 09:37, Davis, Laurence <[email protected]> wrote:

 I use William Morris's *News from Nowhere* and Ursula K. Le Guin's *The Dispossessed* in an undergraduate module/course I teach on 'Contemporary Ecological and Anti-Capitalist Politics'.

The students respond well to both works, and I encourage them to think about the similarities and differences between them, as well as the different historical contexts in which they were written (Morris in the 1890s, in response to the English industrial revolution, the rise of the nascent English socialist movement, in a tradition of romantic anti-capitalism; Le Guin in the 1970s, in response to contemporary U.S. capitalism and industrialism, the rise of post-consumerist politics and the contemporary ecological movement, in a tradition of anarcho-communism). The assessment varies each year. Last year, I asked students to write an essay on the following theme:

‘It is this change [the transformation of work] which makes all the others possible’ (Old Hammond, in William Morris, News from Nowhere). Discuss with reference to the ecological and socialist politics of News from Nowhere.

They were also asked to deliver an oral presentation on the following topic:

‘Given the deeply entrenched patterns of our society, any significant attempt to decentralise major political and technological institutions…would require something of a revolution’. Discuss with reference to Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed.

Feedback indicated that they enjoyed both of the assignments, and that they appreciated the opportunity to engage in depth with two literary utopias and relevant secondary sources.

Regarding Le Guin's *Always Coming Home*, I agree entirely with the assessment below, though I think the work may be somewhat challenging for undergraduate students.

Best wishes,

Laurence

Laurence Davis Department of Government and Politics University College Cork, Ireland http://publish.ucc.ie/profiles/B007/ldavis

UCC is proud to hold an Athena SWAN Bronze Award. Advancing gender equality: representation, progression and success for all.

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And of course there is the old Ecotopia by Ernst Callenbach

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM <[email protected]> wrote: Older teens might appreciate Ursula K. Le Guin's works of speculative fiction: 1. The classic short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-... 2. The Dispossessed, which depicts a detailed imaginative fictional anarchist (communitarian) utopia and its capitalist/ feudal counterpart 3. Always Coming Home, a depiction of a future California inspired by Native ways of being, structurally not a novel at all, but quite amazing in my opinion.

Also of interest is Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, a small book about a fictional utopian community in California working out the balance between human and ecological well-being. And The Memory of Water, by Finnish writer Emmi Itaranta.

I appreciate all the suggestions - must expand my reading list! Best,

Vandana

From: "Christine Dann" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2020 5:11:51 PM Subject: Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for Young Adults?

Dave Goulson (2019) The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet

Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex - and a really good writer who mixes up his practical gardening experiences with the science stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might be 'too English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well as plants, and while each place has specific interactions going on, the principles behind them are all the same, and these are relevant everywhere. I wish this book had been around when I started gardening in my teens.

Christine

On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman wrote: Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical example of solidarity ethics amidst cultural change

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:19 PM John Foran <[email protected]> wrote: Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> wrote: William Morris, News from Nowhere

Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland

Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available, there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction)

Ashish

LATEST! Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (thepluriverse.org) and www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org

Ashish Kothari Kalpavriksh Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa 908 Deccan Gymkhana Pune 411004, India Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450 http://kalpavriksh.org www.vikalpsangam.org www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org www.iccaconsortium.org www.acknowlej.org http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in/ Twitter: @chikikothari

On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:

Dear all,

What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based futures ?

Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/ young adults. Ours are as follows: 1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative writing for young adults fictionalising the famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining ) 2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School 3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation by Samuel Alexander 4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers 5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many". 6. The following chapters in Alternative futures: Ch 35, Looking Back into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645), and Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)

What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a reading list for Young Adults?

Many thanks in advance!

Pallavi

https://naitaleem.wordpress.com/

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Hi Ana I'm interested to get and read your book, if you send the pdf. Hi Pallavi, long time no hear/see, this is Jemi from ISS class 2004/2005 (PAD Major) Cheers Jemi/Irwansyah Pada tanggal Sen, 14 Sep 2020 pukul 16.40 Pallavi Varma Patil < [email protected]> menulis:

Thank you very much for all these lovely suggestions.

I will look into them to see what can be appropriate as introductory text for young teens (not even Undergrad level!) and that's why I am keen to get hold of some nice fiction introducing a different future to them.

Keep them coming - this already is turning out to be a great reading list!

Pallavi

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:59 PM Ana Cecilia Dinerstein < [email protected]> wrote:

...

Dear all Apologies for self-advertisement But I have written a book Titled ‘The art of organising hope’ which engages with Ernst Bloch’s principle of hope and speaks of social movements in Latin America I can send the pdf to you In case you want to take a look Ana

Dr Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (PhD, FHEA) Department of Social and Policy Sciences University of Bath - Claverton Down - BATH, BS2 7AY - UK - Tel. +44(0)1225 386958 <+441225%20386958>

Criitical Research on the Global Politics of hope <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.anaceciliadinerstein.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csssacd%40bath.ac.uk%7C627141e419534ec4084108d81abdfe68%7C377e3d224ea1422db0ad8fcc89406b9e%7C0%7C0%7C637288750603150795&sdata=j3DHKvFbIX1ivE%2Fqgt247Ny6%2Bz%2F%2BA2ss5xHgcgg9TsQ%3D&reserved=0> SWDTP Standing Seminar in Critical Theory <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.seminarct.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csssacd%40bath.ac.uk%7C627141e419534ec4084108d81abdfe68%7C377e3d224ea1422db0ad8fcc89406b9e%7C0%7C0%7C637288750603160791&sdata=VdYAPucGuQCJqKsrOhZMOS5qCO%2F%2Br2aUNnnwqPfVdD8%3D&reserved=0> Social Movements/Activist Research Book Series for Pluto Press <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.plutobooks.com%2Fblog%2Flearning-from-struggles-social-movements-activist-research%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csssacd%40bath.ac.uk%7C627141e419534ec4084108d81abdfe68%7C377e3d224ea1422db0ad8fcc89406b9e%7C0%7C0%7C637288750603160791&sdata=rvhGPWzd%2F%2BANqu6%2FrA%2FtVl3n0VD73a2LGTPz3bBZ4Ig%3D&reserved=0> –* Proposals welcome*! Global Tapestry of Alternatives <https://eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.globaltapestryofalternatives.org%2F&data=02%7C01%7Csssacd%40bath.ac.uk%7C627141e419534ec4084108d81abdfe68%7C377e3d224ea1422db0ad8fcc89406b9e%7C0%7C0%7C637288750603160791&sdata=6t0XQFCUmlnK5CYqcDBTOc3zmONxLLP4NJ8%2BK89an%2BM%3D&reserved=0>

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On 14 Sep 2020, at 09:37, Davis, Laurence <[email protected]> wrote:

 I use William Morris's *News from Nowhere* and Ursula K. Le Guin's *The Dispossessed* in an undergraduate module/course I teach on 'Contemporary Ecological and Anti-Capitalist Politics'.

The students respond well to both works, and I encourage them to think about the similarities and differences between them, as well as the different historical contexts in which they were written (Morris in the 1890s, in response to the English industrial revolution, the rise of the nascent English socialist movement, in a tradition of romantic anti-capitalism; Le Guin in the 1970s, in response to contemporary U.S. capitalism and industrialism, the rise of post-consumerist politics and the contemporary ecological movement, in a tradition of anarcho-communism). The assessment varies each year. Last year, I asked students to write an essay on the following theme:

‘It is this change [the transformation of work] which makes all the others possible’ (Old Hammond, in William Morris, *News from Nowhere*). Discuss with reference to the ecological and socialist politics of *News from Nowhere*.

They were also asked to deliver an oral presentation on the following topic:

‘Given the deeply entrenched patterns of our society, any significant attempt to decentralise major political and technological institutions…would require something of a revolution’. Discuss with reference to Ursula K. Le Guin’s *The Dispossessed*.

Feedback indicated that they enjoyed both of the assignments, and that they appreciated the opportunity to engage in depth with two literary utopias and relevant secondary sources.

Regarding Le Guin's *Always Coming Home*, I agree entirely with the assessment below, though I think the work may be somewhat challenging for undergraduate students.

Best wishes,

Laurence

Laurence Davis Department of Government and Politics

University College Cork, Ireland

http://publish.ucc.ie/profiles/B007/ldavis

UCC is proud to hold an Athena SWAN Bronze Award. Advancing gender equality: representation, progression and success for all.

------------------------------ *From:* GTA-PeDAGoG <[email protected]> on behalf of John Foran <[email protected]> *Sent:* 14 September 2020 02:41 *To:* PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group < [email protected]> *Subject:* Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for Young Adults?

*[EXTERNAL] *This email was sent from outside of UCC. And of course there is the old *Ecotopia <https://www.amazon.com/Ecotopia-40th-Anniversary-Ernest-Callenbach/dp/159714293X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ecotopia+by+ernest+callenbach&qid=1600047635&s=books&sr=1-1>* by Ernst Callenbach

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

Older teens might appreciate Ursula K. Le Guin's works of speculative fiction: 1. The classic short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-... 2. The Dispossessed, which depicts a detailed imaginative fictional anarchist (communitarian) utopia and its capitalist/ feudal counterpart 3. Always Coming Home, a depiction of a future California inspired by Native ways of being, structurally not a novel at all, but quite amazing in my opinion.

Also of interest is Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, a small book about a fictional utopian community in California working out the balance between human and ecological well-being. And The Memory of Water, by Finnish writer Emmi Itaranta.

I appreciate all the suggestions - must expand my reading list! Best,

Vandana

------------------------------ *From: *"Christine Dann" <[email protected]> *To: *[email protected] *Sent: *Sunday, September 13, 2020 5:11:51 PM *Subject: *Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for Young Adults?

Dave Goulson (2019)* The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet*

Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex - and a really good writer who mixes up his practical gardening experiences with the science stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might be 'too English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well as plants, and while each place has specific interactions going on, the principles behind them are all the same, and these are relevant everywhere. I wish this book had been around when I started gardening in my teens.

Christine

On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman wrote:

Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical example of solidarity ethics amidst cultural change

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:19 PM John Foran <[email protected]> wrote:

Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> wrote:

William Morris, News from Nowhere

Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland

Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available, there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction)

Ashish

LATEST! Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (thepluriverse.org) and www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org

Ashish Kothari Kalpavriksh Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa 908 Deccan Gymkhana Pune 411004, India Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450http://kalpavriksh.orgwww.vikalpsangam.org www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.orgwww.iccaconsortium.orgwww.acknowlej.org http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in/ Twitter: @chikikothari

On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:

Dear all,

What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based futures ?

Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/ young adults. Ours are as follows: 1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative writing for young adults fictionalising the famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining ) 2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School 3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation by Samuel Alexander 4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers 5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many". 6. The following chapters in Alternative futures: Ch 35, Looking Back into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645), and Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)

What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a reading list for Young Adults?

Many thanks in advance!

Pallavi

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Yes to *Octavia's Brood*, and also the work of N.K. Jemison, such as The Broken Earth <https://www.amazon.com/N.-K.-Jemisin/e/B0028OIVC0?ref_=dbs_p_pbk_r00_abau_000000> trilogy. As for the Saci Lloyd Carbon Diaries book, you can see the impact it made on college-age students in the following video of a class I taught in 2013: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5mVCuokAkY&feature=youtu.be On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 3:55 AM Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> wrote:

Indeed, Pallavi, it would be great if you could consolidate the list and send us!

One that I forgot in my first response is 'Octavia's Brood: Science Fiction Stories from Social Justice Movements' whcih has some great stories from blacks, feminists, queer activists, poets, artists, and others in a delightfully eclectic selection of writers.

Also since Le Guin has come up a few times, part of the same series to which The Left Hand of Darkness and The Dispossessed belong, is the slim 'The Telling' about an underground movement against the banning of books that keeps stories alive.

Not sure it will fit into what you want, Pallavi, but an amazing short story, given the time it came out (1905), is 'Sultana's Dream', a feminist utopia by Rokheya Hossein. Attached here as I'm not sure how easily it is available.

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On 14/09/20 3:03 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:

Thank you very much for all these lovely suggestions.

I will look into them to see what can be appropriate as introductory text for young teens (not even Undergrad level!) and that's why I am keen to get hold of some nice fiction introducing a different future to them.

Keep them coming - this already is turning out to be a great reading list!

Pallavi

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:59 PM Ana Cecilia Dinerstein < [email protected]> wrote:

...

Dear all Apologies for self-advertisement But I have written a book Titled ‘The art of organising hope’ which engages with Ernst Bloch’s principle of hope and speaks of social movements in Latin America I can send the pdf to you In case you want to take a look Ana

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On 14 Sep 2020, at 09:37, Davis, Laurence <[email protected]> wrote:

 I use William Morris's *News from Nowhere* and Ursula K. Le Guin's *The Dispossessed* in an undergraduate module/course I teach on 'Contemporary Ecological and Anti-Capitalist Politics'.

The students respond well to both works, and I encourage them to think about the similarities and differences between them, as well as the different historical contexts in which they were written (Morris in the 1890s, in response to the English industrial revolution, the rise of the nascent English socialist movement, in a tradition of romantic anti-capitalism; Le Guin in the 1970s, in response to contemporary U.S. capitalism and industrialism, the rise of post-consumerist politics and the contemporary ecological movement, in a tradition of anarcho-communism). The assessment varies each year. Last year, I asked students to write an essay on the following theme:

‘It is this change [the transformation of work] which makes all the others possible’ (Old Hammond, in William Morris, *News from Nowhere*). Discuss with reference to the ecological and socialist politics of *News from Nowhere*.

They were also asked to deliver an oral presentation on the following topic:

‘Given the deeply entrenched patterns of our society, any significant attempt to decentralise major political and technological institutions…would require something of a revolution’. Discuss with reference to Ursula K. Le Guin’s *The Dispossessed*.

Feedback indicated that they enjoyed both of the assignments, and that they appreciated the opportunity to engage in depth with two literary utopias and relevant secondary sources.

Regarding Le Guin's *Always Coming Home*, I agree entirely with the assessment below, though I think the work may be somewhat challenging for undergraduate students.

Best wishes,

Laurence

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On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

Older teens might appreciate Ursula K. Le Guin's works of speculative fiction: 1. The classic short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-... 2. The Dispossessed, which depicts a detailed imaginative fictional anarchist (communitarian) utopia and its capitalist/ feudal counterpart 3. Always Coming Home, a depiction of a future California inspired by Native ways of being, structurally not a novel at all, but quite amazing in my opinion.

Also of interest is Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, a small book about a fictional utopian community in California working out the balance between human and ecological well-being. And The Memory of Water, by Finnish writer Emmi Itaranta.

I appreciate all the suggestions - must expand my reading list! Best,

Vandana

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Dave Goulson (2019)* The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet*

Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex - and a really good writer who mixes up his practical gardening experiences with the science stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might be 'too English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well as plants, and while each place has specific interactions going on, the principles behind them are all the same, and these are relevant everywhere. I wish this book had been around when I started gardening in my teens.

Christine

On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman wrote:

Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical example of solidarity ethics amidst cultural change

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:19 PM John Foran <[email protected]> wrote:

Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> wrote:

William Morris, News from Nowhere

Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland

Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available, there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction)

Ashish

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On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:

Dear all,

What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based futures ?

Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/ young adults. Ours are as follows: 1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative writing for young adults fictionalising the famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining ) 2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School 3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation by Samuel Alexander 4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers 5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many". 6. The following chapters in Alternative futures: Ch 35, Looking Back into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645), and Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)

What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a reading list for Young Adults?

Many thanks in advance!

Pallavi

https://naitaleem.wordpress.com/

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Dear Ana, I am new in the group and enjoy what I am receiving as info on lively theoretical and practical actions, I would also very much like to receive your PDF. Very best, Dennise

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email: [email protected] Phone: 0049 228 731722 On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:43:52 +0530 Deb Manjit <[email protected]> wrote: Hello Ana! Please send the PDF of your writing mentioned here.

Thanks D.Manjit

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 3:03 PM Ana Cecilia Dinerstein < [email protected]> wrote:

...

Dear all Apologies for self-advertisement But I have written a book Titled ‘The art of organising hope’ which engages with Ernst Bloch’s principle of hope and speaks of social movements in Latin America I can send the pdf to you In case you want to take a look Ana

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On 14 Sep 2020, at 09:37, Davis, Laurence <[email protected]> wrote:

I use William Morris's *News from Nowhere* and Ursula K. Le Guin's *The Dispossessed* in an undergraduate module/course I teach on 'Contemporary Ecological and Anti-Capitalist Politics'.

The students respond well to both works, and I encourage them to think about the similarities and differences between them, as well as the different historical contexts in which they were written (Morris in the 1890s, in response to the English industrial revolution, the rise of the nascent English socialist movement, in a tradition of romantic anti-capitalism; Le Guin in the 1970s, in response to contemporary U.S. capitalism and industrialism, the rise of post-consumerist politics and the contemporary ecological movement, in a tradition of anarcho-communism). The assessment varies each year. Last year, I asked students to write an essay on the following theme:

‘It is this change [the transformation of work] which makes all the others possible’ (Old Hammond, in William Morris, *News from Nowhere*). Discuss with reference to the ecological and socialist politics of *News from Nowhere*.

They were also asked to deliver an oral presentation on the following topic:

‘Given the deeply entrenched patterns of our society, any significant attempt to decentralise major political and technological institutions…would require something of a revolution’. Discuss with reference to Ursula K. Le Guin’s *The Dispossessed*.

Feedback indicated that they enjoyed both of the assignments, and that they appreciated the opportunity to engage in depth with two literary utopias and relevant secondary sources.

Regarding Le Guin's *Always Coming Home*, I agree entirely with the assessment below, though I think the work may be somewhat challenging for undergraduate students.

Best wishes,

Laurence

Laurence Davis Department of Government and Politics

University College Cork, Ireland

http://publish.ucc.ie/profiles/B007/ldavis

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*[EXTERNAL] *This email was sent from outside of UCC. And of course there is the old *Ecotopia <https://www.amazon.com/Ecotopia-40th-Anniversary-Ernest-Callenbach/dp/159714293X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ecotopia+by+ernest+callenbach&qid=1600047635&s=books&sr=1-1>* by Ernst Callenbach

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

Older teens might appreciate Ursula K. Le Guin's works of speculative fiction: 1. The classic short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-... 2. The Dispossessed, which depicts a detailed imaginative fictional anarchist (communitarian) utopia and its capitalist/ feudal counterpart 3. Always Coming Home, a depiction of a future California inspired by Native ways of being, structurally not a novel at all, but quite amazing in my opinion.

Also of interest is Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, a small book about a fictional utopian community in California working out the balance between human and ecological well-being. And The Memory of Water, by Finnish writer Emmi Itaranta.

I appreciate all the suggestions - must expand my reading list! Best,

Vandana

------------------------------ *From: *"Christine Dann" <[email protected]> *To: *[email protected] *Sent: *Sunday, September 13, 2020 5:11:51 PM *Subject: *Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for Young Adults?

Dave Goulson (2019)* The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet*

Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex - and a really good writer who mixes up his practical gardening experiences with the science stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might be 'too English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well as plants, and while each place has specific interactions going on, the principles behind them are all the same, and these are relevant everywhere. I wish this book had been around when I started gardening in my teens.

Christine

On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman wrote:

Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical example of solidarity ethics amidst cultural change

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:19 PM John Foran <[email protected]> wrote:

Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> wrote:

William Morris, News from Nowhere

Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland

Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available, there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction)

Ashish

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On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:

Dear all,

What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based futures ?

Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/ young adults. Ours are as follows: 1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative writing for young adults fictionalising the famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining ) 2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School 3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation by Samuel Alexander 4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers 5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many". 6. The following chapters in Alternative futures: Ch 35, Looking Back into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645), and Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)

What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a reading list for Young Adults?

Many thanks in advance!

Pallavi

https://naitaleem.wordpress.com/

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Best to share it or a link to it in this group? many of us would like to have it. Possible? On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 2:24 PM Amy <[email protected]> wrote:

Dear Ana,

I too would love to read your writings.

Muchas gracias,

On 09/16/2020 15:59, Aviles Dennis <[email protected]> wrote:

Dear Ana,

I am new in the group and enjoy what I am receiving as info on lively theoretical and practical actions, I would also very much like to receive your PDF.

Very best,

Dennise

Dr. Dennis Lucy Avilés Irahola

Senior Researcher

Center for Development Research (ZEF)

Dept. for Political and Cultural Change

University of Bonn

Genscherallee 3

D- 53113 Bonn, GERMANY

email: [email protected]

Phone: 0049 228 731722

On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:43:52 +0530

Deb Manjit <[email protected]> wrote:

Hello Ana!

Please send the PDF of your writing mentioned here.

Thanks

D.Manjit

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 3:03 PM Ana Cecilia Dinerstein <

[email protected]> wrote:

Dear all

Apologies for self-advertisement

But I have written a book Titled ‘The art of organising hope’ which

engages with Ernst Bloch’s principle of hope and speaks of social

movements in Latin America

I can send the pdf to you In case you want to take a look

Ana

Dr Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (PhD, FHEA)

Department of Social and Policy Sciences

University of Bath - Claverton Down - BATH, BS2 7AY - UK - Tel. +44(0)1225

386958 <+441225%20386958>

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On 14 Sep 2020, at 09:37, Davis, Laurence <[email protected]> wrote:

I use William Morris's *News from Nowhere* and Ursula K. Le Guin's *The

Dispossessed* in an undergraduate module/course I teach on 'Contemporary

Ecological and Anti-Capitalist Politics'.

The students respond well to both works, and I encourage them to think

about the similarities and differences between them, as well as the

different historical contexts in which they were written (Morris in the

1890s, in response to the English industrial revolution, the rise of the

nascent English socialist movement, in a tradition of romantic

anti-capitalism; Le Guin in the 1970s, in response to contemporary U.S.

capitalism and industrialism, the rise of post-consumerist politics and the

contemporary ecological movement, in a tradition of anarcho-communism). The

assessment varies each year. Last year, I asked students to write an essay

on the following theme:

‘It is this change [the transformation of work] which makes all the others

possible’ (Old Hammond, in William Morris, *News from Nowhere*). Discuss

with reference to the ecological and socialist politics of *News from

Nowhere*.

They were also asked to deliver an oral presentation on the following

topic:

‘Given the deeply entrenched patterns of our society, any significant

attempt to decentralise major political and technological

institutions…would require something of a revolution’. Discuss with

reference to Ursula K. Le Guin’s *The Dispossessed*.

Feedback indicated that they enjoyed both of the assignments, and that

they appreciated the opportunity to engage in depth with two literary

utopias and relevant secondary sources.

Regarding Le Guin's *Always Coming Home*, I agree entirely with the

assessment below, though I think the work may be somewhat challenging for

undergraduate students.

Best wishes,

Laurence

Laurence Davis

Department of Government and Politics

University College Cork, Ireland

http://publish.ucc.ie/profiles/B007/ldavis

UCC is proud to hold an Athena SWAN Bronze Award.

Advancing gender equality: representation, progression and success for all.

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of John Foran <[email protected]>

*Sent:* 14 September 2020 02:41

*To:* PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group <

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Young Adults?

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And of course there is the old *Ecotopia

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by Ernst Callenbach

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM <[email protected]> wrote:

Older teens might appreciate Ursula K. Le Guin's works of speculative

fiction:

1. The classic short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"

https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-... as.pdf <https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-Guin-Ursula-The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas.pdf>

2. The Dispossessed, which depicts a detailed imaginative fictional

anarchist (communitarian) utopia and its capitalist/ feudal counterpart

3. Always Coming Home, a depiction of a future California inspired by

Native ways of being, structurally not a novel at all, but quite amazing in

my opinion.

Also of interest is Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, a small book

about a fictional utopian community in California working out the balance

between human and ecological well-being. And The Memory of Water, by

Finnish writer Emmi Itaranta.

I appreciate all the suggestions - must expand my reading list!

Best,

Vandana

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*From: *"Christine Dann" <[email protected]>

*To: *[email protected]

*Sent: *Sunday, September 13, 2020 5:11:51 PM

*Subject: *Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for

Young Adults?

Dave Goulson (2019)* The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet*

Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex -

and a really good writer who mixes up his practical gardening experiences

with the science stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might be

'too English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens

everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well as

plants, and while each place has specific interactions going on, the

principles behind them are all the same, and these are relevant

everywhere. I wish this book had been around when I started gardening in

my teens.

Christine

On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman wrote:

Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical example of solidarity

ethics amidst cultural change

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:19 PM John Foran <[email protected]> wrote:

Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <[email protected]>

wrote:

William Morris, News from Nowhere

Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland

Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available,

there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian

Science Fiction)

Ashish

LATEST! Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (thepluriverse.org)

and www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org

Ashish Kothari

Kalpavriksh

Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa

908 Deccan Gymkhana

Pune 411004, India

Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450 http://kalpavriksh.orgwww.vikalpsangam.org www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.orgwww.iccaconsortium.orgwww.acknowlej.org www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.orgwww.iccaconsortium.orgwww.acknowlej.org <http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in/>

Twitter: @chikikothari

On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:

Dear all,

What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young

adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based

futures ?

Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more

and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/

young adults.

Ours are as follows:

1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative

writing for young adults fictionalising the

famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining )

2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School

3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation by Samuel Alexander

4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers

5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many".

6. The following chapters in Alternative futures: Ch 35, Looking Back

into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645),

and Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)

What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a

reading list for Young Adults?

Many thanks in advance!

Pallavi

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Dear Ana, I’m also interested in receiving the Pdf Thanks Anne Van: GTA-PeDAGoG [mailto:[email protected]] Namens Aviles Dennis Verzonden: woensdag 16 september 2020 10:00 Aan: PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group <[email protected]>; Deb Manjit <[email protected]> Onderwerp: Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for Young Adults? Dear Ana, I am new in the group and enjoy what I am receiving as info on lively theoretical and practical actions, I would also very much like to receive your PDF. Very best, Dennise Dr. Dennis Lucy Avilés Irahola Senior Researcher Center for Development Research (ZEF) Dept. for Political and Cultural Change University of Bonn Genscherallee 3 D- 53113 Bonn, GERMANY email: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Phone: 0049 228 731722 On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:43:52 +0530 Deb Manjit < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> wrote: Hello Ana! Please send the PDF of your writing mentioned here. 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Le Guin's *The Dispossessed* in an undergraduate module/course I teach on 'Contemporary Ecological and Anti-Capitalist Politics'. The students respond well to both works, and I encourage them to think about the similarities and differences between them, as well as the different historical contexts in which they were written (Morris in the 1890s, in response to the English industrial revolution, the rise of the nascent English socialist movement, in a tradition of romantic anti-capitalism; Le Guin in the 1970s, in response to contemporary U.S. capitalism and industrialism, the rise of post-consumerist politics and the contemporary ecological movement, in a tradition of anarcho-communism). The assessment varies each year. Last year, I asked students to write an essay on the following theme: ‘It is this change [the transformation of work] which makes all the others possible’ (Old Hammond, in William Morris, *News from Nowhere*). Discuss with reference to the ecological and socialist politics of *News from Nowhere*. They were also asked to deliver an oral presentation on the following topic: ‘Given the deeply entrenched patterns of our society, any significant attempt to decentralise major political and technological institutions…would require something of a revolution’. Discuss with reference to Ursula K. Le Guin’s *The Dispossessed*. Feedback indicated that they enjoyed both of the assignments, and that they appreciated the opportunity to engage in depth with two literary utopias and relevant secondary sources. Regarding Le Guin's *Always Coming Home*, I agree entirely with the assessment below, though I think the work may be somewhat challenging for undergraduate students. Best wishes, Laurence Laurence Davis Department of Government and Politics University College Cork, Ireland http://publish.ucc.ie/profiles/B007/ldavis UCC is proud to hold an Athena SWAN Bronze Award. Advancing gender equality: representation, progression and success for all. ------------------------------ *From:* GTA-PeDAGoG < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> on behalf of John Foran < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> *Sent:* 14 September 2020 02:41 *To:* PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group < [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > *Subject:* Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for Young Adults? *[EXTERNAL] *This email was sent from outside of UCC. And of course there is the old *Ecotopia < <https://www.amazon.com/Ecotopia-40th-Anniversary-Ernest-Callenbach/dp/159714293X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ec%20otopia+by+ernest+callenbach&qid=1600047635&s=books&sr=1-1> https://www.amazon.com/Ecotopia-40th-Anniversary-Ernest-Callenbach/dp/159714... otopia+by+ernest+callenbach&qid=1600047635&s=books&sr=1-1>* by Ernst Callenbach On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> wrote: Older teens might appreciate Ursula K. Le Guin's works of speculative fiction: 1. The classic short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-... as.pdf <https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-Guin-Ursula-The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas.pdf> 2. The Dispossessed, which depicts a detailed imaginative fictional anarchist (communitarian) utopia and its capitalist/ feudal counterpart 3. Always Coming Home, a depiction of a future California inspired by Native ways of being, structurally not a novel at all, but quite amazing in my opinion. Also of interest is Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, a small book about a fictional utopian community in California working out the balance between human and ecological well-being. And The Memory of Water, by Finnish writer Emmi Itaranta. I appreciate all the suggestions - must expand my reading list! Best, Vandana ------------------------------ *From: *"Christine Dann" < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> *To: <mailto:*[email protected]> *[email protected] *Sent: *Sunday, September 13, 2020 5:11:51 PM *Subject: *Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for Young Adults? Dave Goulson (2019)* The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet* Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex - and a really good writer who mixes up his practical gardening experiences with the science stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might be 'too English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well as plants, and while each place has specific interactions going on, the principles behind them are all the same, and these are relevant everywhere. I wish this book had been around when I started gardening in my teens. Christine On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman wrote: Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical example of solidarity ethics amidst cultural change On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:19 PM John Foran < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> wrote: Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> wrote: William Morris, News from Nowhere Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available, there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction) Ashish LATEST! Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (thepluriverse.org) and www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org <http://www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org> Ashish Kothari Kalpavriksh Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa 908 Deccan Gymkhana Pune 411004, India Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450http://kalpavriksh.orgwww.vikalpsangam.org www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.orgwww.iccaconsortium.orgwww.acknowlej.org <http://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.orgwww.iccaconsortium.orgwww.acknowlej.org> www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.orgwww.iccaconsortium.orgwww.acknowlej.org <http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in/> Twitter: @chikikothari On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote: Dear all, What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based futures ? Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/ young adults. Ours are as follows: 1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative writing for young adults fictionalising the famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining ) 2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School 3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation by Samuel Alexander 4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers 5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many". 6. The following chapters in Alternative futures: Ch 35, Looking Back into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645), and Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340) What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a reading list for Young Adults? Many thanks in advance! 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Hi Laurence! My apologies for the earlier communication. Pressed a wrong key and before I could complete it, and it was sent. I teach environmental history in a college of University of Delhi. A mandatory paper titled "Environmental Science" has been thrust on the teachers and students of the University at the behest of the government. The contents/syllabus of the paper is not neither environment nor climate sensitive. The students too have similar opinions. Some of us are engaged in reviewing and critiquing it. And in that context, I just wanted to have a look at the content/syllabus of your 'Contemporary Ecological and Anti-Capitalist Politics', if that's not a problem. And also if you could suggest any related matter. Thanks. D.manjit Associate Professor, History DSCollege, Univ. of Delhi. On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:08 PM Davis, Laurence <[email protected]> wrote:

I use William Morris's *News from Nowhere* and Ursula K. Le Guin's *The Dispossessed* in an undergraduate module/course I teach on 'Contemporary Ecological and Anti-Capitalist Politics'.

The students respond well to both works, and I encourage them to think about the similarities and differences between them, as well as the different historical contexts in which they were written (Morris in the 1890s, in response to the English industrial revolution, the rise of the nascent English socialist movement, in a tradition of romantic anti-capitalism; Le Guin in the 1970s, in response to contemporary U.S. capitalism and industrialism, the rise of post-consumerist politics and the contemporary ecological movement, in a tradition of anarcho-communism). The assessment varies each year. Last year, I asked students to write an essay on the following theme:

‘It is this change [the transformation of work] which makes all the others possible’ (Old Hammond, in William Morris, *News from Nowhere*). Discuss with reference to the ecological and socialist politics of *News from Nowhere*.

They were also asked to deliver an oral presentation on the following topic:

‘Given the deeply entrenched patterns of our society, any significant attempt to decentralise major political and technological institutions…would require something of a revolution’. Discuss with reference to Ursula K. Le Guin’s *The Dispossessed*.

Feedback indicated that they enjoyed both of the assignments, and that they appreciated the opportunity to engage in depth with two literary utopias and relevant secondary sources.

Regarding Le Guin's *Always Coming Home*, I agree entirely with the assessment below, though I think the work may be somewhat challenging for undergraduate students.

Best wishes,

Laurence

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*[EXTERNAL] *This email was sent from outside of UCC. And of course there is the old *Ecotopia <https://www.amazon.com/Ecotopia-40th-Anniversary-Ernest-Callenbach/dp/159714293X/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=ecotopia+by+ernest+callenbach&qid=1600047635&s=books&sr=1-1>* by Ernst Callenbach

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Older teens might appreciate Ursula K. Le Guin's works of speculative fiction: 1. The classic short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas" https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-... 2. The Dispossessed, which depicts a detailed imaginative fictional anarchist (communitarian) utopia and its capitalist/ feudal counterpart 3. Always Coming Home, a depiction of a future California inspired by Native ways of being, structurally not a novel at all, but quite amazing in my opinion.

Also of interest is Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, a small book about a fictional utopian community in California working out the balance between human and ecological well-being. And The Memory of Water, by Finnish writer Emmi Itaranta.

I appreciate all the suggestions - must expand my reading list! Best,

Vandana

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Dave Goulson (2019)* The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet*

Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex - and a really good writer who mixes up his practical gardening experiences with the science stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might be 'too English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well as plants, and while each place has specific interactions going on, the principles behind them are all the same, and these are relevant everywhere. I wish this book had been around when I started gardening in my teens.

Christine

On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman wrote:

Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical example of solidarity ethics amidst cultural change

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:19 PM John Foran <[email protected]> wrote:

Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> wrote:

William Morris, News from Nowhere

Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland

Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available, there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction)

Ashish

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On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:

Dear all,

What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based futures ?

Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/ young adults. Ours are as follows: 1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative writing for young adults fictionalising the famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining ) 2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School 3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation by Samuel Alexander 4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers 5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many". 6. The following chapters in Alternative futures: Ch 35, Looking Back into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645), and Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)

What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a reading list for Young Adults?

Many thanks in advance!

Pallavi

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Good day, comrades! You may want to purchase copies of *Pangiyak *and *Ang Bayabas sa Tagaytay * (*The Guava at the Tagaytay*) from the Save Our Schools Network, one of the partner organizations of the UP CIDS Program on Alternative Development. These stories, told by indigenous Lumad children themselves, articulate the experiences of marginalized youth. Moreover, they shed light on the capacity of indigenous peoples to lead their own communities in the countryside and protect their local environments at the same time. *Song of the Bakwit* is also free for download here: https://swfupdiliman.org/download/awit-ng-bakwit-alquisola/ For my classes before, when I taught young adult ecofiction, I had a particular attachment to Margaret Atwood's *MaddAddam *trilogy beginning with *Oryx and Crake*, whose post-apocalyptic vision offers diagnoses of today's anthropocene. From the Philippines, another selection is Merlinda Bobis' *Locust Girl *(also available in Australia) which discusses the same themes and vision from the vantage point of the global south. Best, *Jose Monfred C. Sy* Master of Arts (Philippine Studies) [ongoing] Bachelor of Arts (Comparative Literature) *University of the Philippines* [email protected] "Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice and from it alone." Mao Tse-tung, *Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?* On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:31 AM Pallavi Varma Patil <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Christine( and others),

Here is something that caught my eye yesterday after you put me on the gardening radar with your lovely recommendation: Scent of Rain, Sun and Soil : Stories of Agroecology by Lumad youth in the Philippines. http://davaotoday.com/main/culture-2/counter-narrative-book-on-lumad-schools...

Anyone here seen it? Useful?

Also: I read your recommendation out to my own 13 year old and she immediately said , "in that case we could also have books by Gerald Durrell featuring in this reading list!"

Pallavi

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 3:09 AM Christine Dann <[email protected]> wrote:

...

Dave Goulson (2019)* The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet*

Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex - and a really good writer who mixes up his practical gardening experiences with the science stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might be 'too English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well as plants, and while each place has specific interactions going on, the principles behind them are all the same, and these are relevant everywhere. I wish this book had been around when I started gardening in my teens.

Christine

On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman wrote:

Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical example of solidarity ethics amidst cultural change

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:19 PM John Foran <[email protected]> wrote:

...

Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> wrote:

...

William Morris, News from Nowhere

Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland

Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available, there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction)

Ashish

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On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:

Dear all,

What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based futures ?

Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/ young adults. Ours are as follows: 1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative writing for young adults fictionalising the famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining ) 2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School 3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation by Samuel Alexander 4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers 5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many". 6. The following chapters in Alternative futures: Ch 35, Looking Back into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645), and Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)

What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a reading list for Young Adults?

Many thanks in advance!

Pallavi

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Hello Pallavi! Nice to hear from you! The Lumad Schools here in our country are still under attack and thus closed, because of this red-tagging of the military or associating many indigenous communities to revolutionary forces. 'Lumad' is a term for diverse indigenous peoples of Mindanao. Some of the students are now housed in UP Diliman campus to continue their alternative education. Called the Bakwit School ('bakwit' as a slang for evacuee), these young students become our research partners in our ongoing research and documentation on alternatives. Jose Monfred (or MonSy), my colleague in the UP CIDS AltDev Program and a teacher in the Bakwit School can tell you some documentation or books about the school's work on ecological/ solidarity-based future. Apologies for posting again, here is the link to the story of the Bakwit School published by UP CIDS: Teaching "Pangiyak Ki!": The Lumad School as a Struggle for Land, Life, and Liberation (See page 107-124) https://drive.google.com/file/d/12yEe4PeDN0jcefkCCR0ufPlpHPE_KiJL/view Glad to know you and Jemi are also friends! Jemi, you might also be able to share some documentation or a book about the agricultural school for children run by the Serikat Petani Pasundan (Pasundan Peasant Union). I visited one of their schools in Tasikmalaya in West Java last year. All the best in your book hunting for your children and other young people there! In solidarity! Angging *Ananeza Aban, MCD* Senior Research Associate Program on Alternative Development (AltDev) University of the Philippines | Center for Integrative and Development Studies *Ang Bahay ng Alumni, Lower Ground Floor * *Magsaysay Ave., UP Diliman, Q.C. 1101 Philippines* *Tel. nos.: 981-8500 loc. 4266-4267 & 435-9283* *Tel. fax: 981-8500 loc. 4268 & 426-0955* *Website: cids.up.edu.ph <http://cids.up.edu.ph>* *Facebook page: www.facebook.com/upcids* On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 10:31 AM Pallavi Varma Patil <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Christine( and others),

Here is something that caught my eye yesterday after you put me on the gardening radar with your lovely recommendation: Scent of Rain, Sun and Soil : Stories of Agroecology by Lumad youth in the Philippines. http://davaotoday.com/main/culture-2/counter-narrative-book-on-lumad-schools...

Anyone here seen it? Useful?

Also: I read your recommendation out to my own 13 year old and she immediately said , "in that case we could also have books by Gerald Durrell featuring in this reading list!"

Pallavi

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 3:09 AM Christine Dann <[email protected]> wrote:

...

Dave Goulson (2019)* The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet*

Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex - and a really good writer who mixes up his practical gardening experiences with the science stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might be 'too English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well as plants, and while each place has specific interactions going on, the principles behind them are all the same, and these are relevant everywhere. I wish this book had been around when I started gardening in my teens.

Christine

On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman wrote:

Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical example of solidarity ethics amidst cultural change

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:19 PM John Foran <[email protected]> wrote:

...

Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries

On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> wrote:

...

William Morris, News from Nowhere

Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland

Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available, there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian Science Fiction)

Ashish

LATEST! Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (thepluriverse.org) and www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org

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On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:

Dear all,

What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based futures ?

Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/ young adults. Ours are as follows: 1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative writing for young adults fictionalising the famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining ) 2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School 3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation by Samuel Alexander 4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers 5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many". 6. The following chapters in Alternative futures: Ch 35, Looking Back into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645), and Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)

What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a reading list for Young Adults?

Many thanks in advance!

Pallavi

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Hi Pallavi! This is an exciting opportunity where we could exchange good practices and community-led pedagogies. Maybe you, I, and Angging Aban could discuss the Bakwit School and Pasundan articles in a separate email? The UP CIDS Program on Alternative Development is interested in working with your team, too, with regard to this endeavor. Best, *Jose Monfred C. Sy* Master of Arts (Philippine Studies) [ongoing] Bachelor of Arts (Comparative Literature) *University of the Philippines* [email protected] "Where do correct ideas come from? Do they drop from the skies? No. Are they innate in the mind? No. They come from social practice and from it alone." Mao Tse-tung, *Where Do Correct Ideas Come From?* On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 1:02 PM Pallavi Varma Patil <[email protected]> wrote:

This is fantastic!!!!

I have two requests from you, Jemi, and Mon Sy,

1. Would you be able to provide me with a shortened version (3-4 pages) of your article: Teaching "Pangiyak Ki! that I can use to publish in a forthcoming journal on Gandhian education - more in a separate email on why I think this teaching/ learning approach aligns with Gandhian ideas.

2. My colleague, Sujit and I would very much like to use examples of Bakwit school and the agricultural school for children run by the Peasant Union in our courses on Gandhian Education i.e Nai Talim for Today and Tomorrow. We already discuss the contextual and hands on curriculum apart from the nature of the Zapatista schools in our course and it would be absolutely fantastic to have something exciting like this from the Philippines. So please do send the Serikat Petani Pasundan (Union) run school write up as well.

Thank you very much.

Pallavi

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Here's another one to look out for - /Diary of a Young Naturalist/ by Dara McAnulty I haven't seen it yet, but am ordering my copy today on the strength of this review - https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/07/diary-of-a-young-naturalist-by... Christine On 20/09/20 4:30 am, jemi Irwansyah wrote:

Hi Palavi, Anging and all..

I will look for english materials/paper on school of Serikat Petani Pasundan (Pasundan Peasant Union).  I'll send to you as soon as possible.

Cheers

jemi

Pada tanggal Sel, 15 Sep 2020 pukul 12.02 Pallavi Varma Patil <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> menulis:

This is fantastic!!!!

 I have two requests from you, Jemi, and Mon Sy,

1. Would you be able to provide me with a shortened version (3-4 pages) of your article: Teaching "Pangiyak Ki! that I can use to publish in a forthcoming  journal on Gandhian education - more in a separate email on why I think this teaching/ learning approach aligns with Gandhian ideas.

2. My colleague, Sujit and I would very much like to use examples of Bakwit school and the agricultural school for children run by the  Peasant Union in our courses on Gandhian Education i.e Nai Talim for Today and Tomorrow. We already discuss the contextual and hands on curriculum apart from the nature of the Zapatista schools in our course and it would be absolutely fantastic to have something exciting like this from the Philippines. So please do send the Serikat Petani Pasundan (Union) run  school write up as well.

Thank you very much.

Pallavi

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Thank you so much ! Read the review, and some sample pages on Amazon --- ordering it right away too--young adult will devour it! Pallavi On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:32 AM Christine Dann <[email protected]> wrote:

Here's another one to look out for -

*Diary of a Young Naturalist* by Dara McAnulty

I haven't seen it yet, but am ordering my copy today on the strength of this review -

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/07/diary-of-a-young-naturalist-by...

Christine

On 20/09/20 4:30 am, jemi Irwansyah wrote:

Hi Palavi, Anging and all..

I will look for english materials/paper on school of Serikat Petani Pasundan (Pasundan Peasant Union). I'll send to you as soon as possible.

Cheers

jemi

Pada tanggal Sel, 15 Sep 2020 pukul 12.02 Pallavi Varma Patil < [email protected]> menulis:

...

This is fantastic!!!!

I have two requests from you, Jemi, and Mon Sy,

1. Would you be able to provide me with a shortened version (3-4 pages) of your article: Teaching "Pangiyak Ki! that I can use to publish in a forthcoming journal on Gandhian education - more in a separate email on why I think this teaching/ learning approach aligns with Gandhian ideas.

2. My colleague, Sujit and I would very much like to use examples of Bakwit school and the agricultural school for children run by the Peasant Union in our courses on Gandhian Education i.e Nai Talim for Today and Tomorrow. We already discuss the contextual and hands on curriculum apart from the nature of the Zapatista schools in our course and it would be absolutely fantastic to have something exciting like this from the Philippines. So please do send the Serikat Petani Pasundan (Union) run school write up as well.

Thank you very much.

Pallavi

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Dear Franco Thanks so much for doing this . Sujit -----Original Message--- From: GTA-PeDAGoG [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Franco Augusto Sent: Wednesday, September 23, 2020 9:24 PM To: PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for Young Adults? Thanks Pallavi and all for this great list of recommendations. I took some minutes to compile the reading list and added download links (most of the books are already available online), you will find it here: https://pad.riseup.net/p/pedagog-readinglist-keep. You can add more information since its a collaborative document. Best, Franco. On Mon, Sep 21, 2020 at 11:48 PM Pallavi Varma Patil <[email protected]> wrote:

Thank you so much ! Read the review, and some sample pages on Amazon --- ordering it right away too--young adult will devour it!

Pallavi

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 2:32 AM Christine Dann <[email protected]> wrote:

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Here's another one to look out for -

Diary of a Young Naturalist by Dara McAnulty

I haven't seen it yet, but am ordering my copy today on the strength of this review -

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/jun/07/diary-of-a-young-natura list-by-dara-mcanulty-review-miraculous-memoir

Christine

On 20/09/20 4:30 am, jemi Irwansyah wrote:

Hi Palavi, Anging and all..

I will look for english materials/paper on school of Serikat Petani Pasundan (Pasundan Peasant Union). I'll send to you as soon as possible.

Cheers

jemi

Pada tanggal Sel, 15 Sep 2020 pukul 12.02 Pallavi Varma Patil <[email protected]> menulis:

...

This is fantastic!!!!

I have two requests from you, Jemi, and Mon Sy,

1. Would you be able to provide me with a shortened version (3-4 pages) of your article: Teaching "Pangiyak Ki! that I can use to publish in a forthcoming journal on Gandhian education - more in a separate email on why I think this teaching/ learning approach aligns with Gandhian ideas.

2. My colleague, Sujit and I would very much like to use examples of Bakwit school and the agricultural school for children run by the Peasant Union in our courses on Gandhian Education i.e Nai Talim for Today and Tomorrow. We already discuss the contextual and hands on curriculum apart from the nature of the Zapatista schools in our course and it would be absolutely fantastic to have something exciting like this from the Philippines. So please do send the Serikat Petani Pasundan (Union) run school write up as well.

Thank you very much.

Pallavi

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