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

Tue Sep 15 07:08:23 CEST 2020

Apologies for my earlier tangential conversations on the group.

Looping this thread back into focus:  Thank you Mon Sy for these wonderful
book recommendations
(And also for your nice signature line! :))

Pallavi

On Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 8:58 AM Mon Sy <josemonfredsy at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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