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

Tue Sep 15 05:27:16 CEST 2020

Hello Pallavi!

Nice to hear from you! The Lumad Schools here in our country are still
under attack and thus closed, because of this red-tagging of the military
or associating many indigenous communities to revolutionary forces. 'Lumad'
is a term for diverse indigenous peoples of Mindanao. Some of the students
are now housed in UP Diliman campus to continue their alternative
education. Called the Bakwit School ('bakwit' as a slang for evacuee),
these young students become our research partners in our ongoing research
and documentation on alternatives. Jose Monfred (or MonSy), my colleague in
the UP CIDS AltDev Program and a teacher in the Bakwit School can tell you
some documentation or books about the school's work on ecological/
solidarity-based future.

Apologies for posting again, here is the link to the story of the Bakwit
School published by UP CIDS:
Teaching "Pangiyak Ki!": The Lumad School as a Struggle for Land, Life, and
Liberation (See page 107-124)
https://drive.google.com/file/d/12yEe4PeDN0jcefkCCR0ufPlpHPE_KiJL/view

Glad to know you and Jemi are also friends! Jemi, you might also be able to
share some documentation or a book about the agricultural school for
children run by the Serikat Petani Pasundan (Pasundan Peasant Union). I
visited one of their schools in Tasikmalaya in West Java last year.

All the best in your book hunting for your children and other young people
there!

In solidarity!
Angging

*Ananeza Aban, MCD*
Senior Research Associate
Program on Alternative Development (AltDev)
University of the Philippines | Center for Integrative and Development
Studies
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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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