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

Mon Sep 14 03:41:12 CEST 2020

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
>>>
>>>
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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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