[PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for Young Adults?

Sun Oct 11 19:11:57 CEST 2020

Hi Laurence!!
I teach Environmental history in a college of University of DELHI.

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:08 PM Davis, Laurence <L.Davis at ucc.ie> 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
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> *From:* GTA-PeDAGoG <gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org> on behalf
> of John Foran <foran at soc.ucsb.edu>
> *Sent:* 14 September 2020 02:41
> *To:* PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group <
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> *Subject:* Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for
> Young Adults?
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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 <singhvan at rcn.com> 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-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" <christine at horomaka.org>
> *To: *gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org
> *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 <foran at soc.ucsb.edu> wrote:
>
> Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries
>
> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <ashishkothari at riseup.net>
> 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)
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> Ashish Kothari
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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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