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

Wed Sep 16 10:18:05 CEST 2020

Dear Ana,

I too would love to read your writings.

Muchas gracias,

On 09/16/2020 15:59, Aviles Dennis wrote:

Dear Ana,

I am new in the group and enjoy what I am receiving as info on lively theoretical and practical actions, I would also very much like to receive your PDF.

Very best,

Dennise

Dr. Dennis Lucy Avilés Irahola

Senior Researcher

Center for Development Research (ZEF)

Dept. for Political and Cultural Change

University of Bonn

Genscherallee 3

D- 53113 Bonn, GERMANY

email: davilesi at uni-bonn.de

Phone: 0049 228 731722

On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:43:52 +0530

Deb Manjit <manjitneversaidso at gmail.com> wrote:

Hello Ana!

Please send the PDF of your writing mentioned here.

Thanks

D.Manjit

On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 3:03 PM Ana Cecilia Dinerstein <

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

Dr Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (PhD, FHEA)

Department of Social and Policy Sciences

University of Bath - Claverton Down - BATH, BS2 7AY - UK - Tel. +44(0)1225

386958 <+441225%20386958>

Criitical Research on the Global Politics of hope

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A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State Between

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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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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=ec otopia+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-Omel as.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

LATEST! Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (thepluriverse.org)

and www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org

Ashish Kothari

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908 Deccan Gymkhana

Pune 411004, India

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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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