[PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for Young Adults?
Ashish Kothari
ashishkothari at riseup.net
Mon Sep 14 12:54:08 CEST 2020
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.
ashish
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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
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> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:59 PM Ana Cecilia Dinerstein
> <a.c.dinerstein at gmail.com <mailto:a.c.dinerstein at gmail.com>> 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 <L.Davis at ucc.ie
>> <mailto: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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>> <mailto:gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org>> on behalf of
>> John Foran <foran at soc.ucsb.edu <mailto:foran at soc.ucsb.edu>>
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>> *Subject:* Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures
>> for Young Adults?
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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 <singhvan at rcn.com
>> <mailto: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
>> <mailto:christine at horomaka.org>>
>> *To: *gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org
>> <mailto: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 <mailto: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
>> <mailto: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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>> Ashish Kothari
>> Kalpavriksh
>> Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa
>> 908 Deccan Gymkhana
>> Pune 411004, India
>> Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450
>> http://kalpavriksh.org
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>> www.acknowlej.org <http://www.acknowlej.org>
>> http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in/
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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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