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

[Pallavi Varma Patil]

Best to share it  or a link to it in this group? many of us would like to
have it.
Possible?

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 2:24 PM Amy <glassbeadgame at 126.com> wrote:

> Dear Ana,
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> I too would love to read your writings.
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> Muchas gracias,
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> On 09/16/2020 15:59, Aviles Dennis <davilesi at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
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> Dear Ana,
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> 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.
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> Very best,
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>
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> Dennise
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> Dr. Dennis Lucy Avilés Irahola
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> Senior Researcher
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> Center for Development Research (ZEF)
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> Dept. for Political and Cultural Change
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> University of Bonn
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> D- 53113 Bonn, GERMANY
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> email: davilesi at uni-bonn.de
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> Phone: 0049 228 731722
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> On Wed, 16 Sep 2020 11:43:52 +0530
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> Deb Manjit <manjitneversaidso at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello Ana!
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> Please send the PDF of your writing mentioned here.
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> Thanks
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> D.Manjit
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> On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 3:03 PM Ana Cecilia Dinerstein <
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> a.c.dinerstein at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Dear all
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> Apologies for self-advertisement
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> But I have written a book Titled ‘The art of organising hope’ which
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> engages with Ernst Bloch’s principle of hope and speaks of social
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> movements in Latin America
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> I can send the pdf to you In case you want to take a look
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> Ana
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> Dr Ana Cecilia Dinerstein (PhD, FHEA)
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> Department of Social and Policy Sciences
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> University of Bath - Claverton Down - BATH, BS2 7AY - UK - Tel. +44(0)1225
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> 386958 <+441225%20386958>
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> Criitical Research on the Global Politics of hope
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> –* Proposals welcome*!
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> Global Tapestry of Alternatives
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> A World Beyond Work? Labour, Money and the Capitalist State Between
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> Crisis and Utopia
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> On 14 Sep 2020, at 09:37, Davis, Laurence <L.Davis at ucc.ie> wrote:
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> I use William Morris's *News from Nowhere* and Ursula K. Le Guin's *The
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> Dispossessed* in an undergraduate module/course I teach on 'Contemporary
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> Ecological and Anti-Capitalist Politics'.
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> The students respond well to both works, and I encourage them to think
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> about the similarities and differences between them, as well as the
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> different historical contexts in which they were written (Morris in the
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> 1890s, in response to the English industrial revolution, the rise of the
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> nascent English socialist movement, in a tradition of romantic
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> anti-capitalism; Le Guin in the 1970s, in response to contemporary U.S.
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> capitalism and industrialism, the rise of post-consumerist politics and the
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> contemporary ecological movement, in a tradition of anarcho-communism).
> The
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> assessment varies each year. Last year, I asked students to write an essay
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> on the following theme:
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> ‘It is this change [the transformation of work] which makes all the others
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> possible’ (Old Hammond, in William Morris, *News from Nowhere*). Discuss
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> with reference to the ecological and socialist politics of *News from
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> Nowhere*.
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> They were also asked to deliver an oral presentation on the following
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> topic:
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> ‘Given the deeply entrenched patterns of our society, any significant
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> attempt to decentralise major political and technological
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> institutions…would require something of a revolution’. Discuss with
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> reference to Ursula K. Le Guin’s *The Dispossessed*.
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> Feedback indicated that they enjoyed both of the assignments, and that
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> they appreciated the opportunity to engage in depth with two literary
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> utopias and relevant secondary sources.
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> Regarding Le Guin's *Always Coming Home*, I agree entirely with the
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> assessment below, though I think the work may be somewhat challenging for
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> undergraduate students.
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> Best wishes,
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> Laurence
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> Laurence Davis
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> Department of Government and Politics
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> University College Cork, Ireland
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> *From:* GTA-PeDAGoG <gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org> on behalf
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> of John Foran <foran at soc.ucsb.edu>
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> *Sent:* 14 September 2020 02:41
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> *To:* PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group <
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> *Subject:* Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for
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> Young Adults?
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> *[EXTERNAL] *This email was sent from outside of UCC.
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> And of course there is the old *Ecotopia
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> <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
> <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>
> >*
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> by Ernst Callenbach
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> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 6:24 PM <singhvan at rcn.com> wrote:
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> Older teens might appreciate Ursula K. Le Guin's works of speculative
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> fiction:
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> 1. The classic short story "The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas"
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> https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-Guin-Ursula-The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omel
> as.pdf
> <https://sites.asiasociety.org/asia21summit/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/3.-Le-Guin-Ursula-The-Ones-Who-Walk-Away-From-Omelas.pdf>
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> 2. The Dispossessed, which depicts a detailed imaginative fictional
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> anarchist (communitarian) utopia and its capitalist/ feudal counterpart
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> 3. Always Coming Home, a depiction of a future California inspired by
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> Native ways of being, structurally not a novel at all, but quite amazing in
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> my opinion.
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> Also of interest is Pacific Edge by Kim Stanley Robinson, a small book
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> about a fictional utopian community in California working out the balance
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> between human and ecological well-being. And The Memory of Water, by
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> Finnish writer Emmi Itaranta.
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> I appreciate all the suggestions - must expand my reading list!
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> Best,
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> Vandana
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> *From: *"Christine Dann" <christine at horomaka.org>
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> *To: *gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org
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> *Sent: *Sunday, September 13, 2020 5:11:51 PM
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> *Subject: *Re: [PeDAGoG] Reading list around regenerative futures for
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> Young Adults?
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> Dave Goulson (2019)* The Garden Jungle or Gardening to Save the Planet*
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> Goulson is Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Sussex -
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> and a really good writer who mixes up his practical gardening experiences
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> with the science stories he tells. I was initially worried that it might
> be
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> 'too English' to apply to New Zealand conditions, but all gardens
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> everywhere have soil microorganisms, insects, birds, etc. as well as
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> plants, and while each place has specific interactions going on, the
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> principles behind them are all the same, and these are relevant
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> everywhere. I wish this book had been around when I started gardening in
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> my teens.
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> Christine
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> On 14/09/20 8:34 am, Callie Berman wrote:
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> Radical Hope by Jonathan Lear - for a historical example of solidarity
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> ethics amidst cultural change
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> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 9:19 PM John Foran <foran at soc.ucsb.edu> wrote:
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> Saci Lloyd, The Carbon Diaries
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> On Sun, Sep 13, 2020 at 8:02 AM Ashish Kothari <ashishkothari at riseup.net>
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> William Morris, News from Nowhere
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> Paul Raskin, Journey to Earthland
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> Rahul Sankrityayan, Baisvi Sadi (The 22nd Century) (not sure available,
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> there is an excerpt in tarun Saint ed, The Gollancz Book of South Asian
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> Science Fiction)
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> Ashish
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> On 13/09/20 12:04 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:
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> Dear all,
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> What fiction / non fiction books or writings would you recommend for young
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> adults to introduce to them the idea of ecological/ solidarity based
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> futures ?
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> Sujit and I have the following ideas but am sure you all have many more
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> and it would be nice to compile a reading list together for children/
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> young adults.
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> Ours are as follows:
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> 1. 'Year of the Weeds' by Siddhartha Sarma (Very clever and imaginative
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> writing for young adults fictionalising the
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> famous indigenous Niyamgiri struggle against mining )
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> 2. Daniel Greenberg's 'Free at Last ' about the Sudbury Valley School
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> 3. Entropia: Life Beyond Industrial Civilisation by Samuel Alexander
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> 4. Our own Gandhi Note book to introduce Gandhi to young readers
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> 5. Ela Bhatt's Anubandh and "We are poor but so many".
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> 6. The following chapters in Alternative futures: Ch 35, Looking Back
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> into the Future: India, South Asia, and the world in 2010 ( pp 627-645),
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> and Ch 18: Dare to dream ( pp 326- 340)
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> What else and what more would you recommend to us that can be used as a
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> reading list for Young Adults?
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> Many thanks in advance!
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> Pallavi
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