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

Tue Sep 15 05:24:22 CEST 2020

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*
jcsy3 at up.edu.ph

"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 <pallavi.vp at apu.edu.in>
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-agri-education-counters-red-tagging/?fbclid=IwAR1Gl4N1gJFA976znfw_cvIGQeKpKk7YsjYFm2uVgOoRM7oahoCp8O9QJ4k
>
>
> 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 <christine at horomaka.org>
> 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 <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)
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://naitaleem.wordpress.com/
>>>>
>>>>
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