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

Mon Sep 14 17:43:52 CEST 2020

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 <ashishkothari at riseup.net>
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 <
> a.c.dinerstein at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Dear all
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>> On 14 Sep 2020, at 09:37, 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
>>
>> http://publish.ucc.ie/profiles/B007/ldavis
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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 <
>> gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org>
>> *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
>>
>>
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>> 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
>>
>>
>> https://naitaleem.wordpress.com/
>>
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