[PeDAGoG] Fwd: research collaborations on creating a cosmopolitics of climate change
Ashish Kothari
ashishkothari at riseup.net
Sun Jan 17 12:03:14 CET 2021
Dear PeDAGoG colleagues, pl. see below and attached, this may be of
interest. I am copying in Rosalyn in case any of you want to get in
touch with her directly. I have also suggested she joins the group.
ashish
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Subject: Re: research collaborations on creating a cosmopolitics of
climate change
Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2021 18:09:30 +0000
From: Bold, Rosalyn <r.bold at ucl.ac.uk>
To: singhvan at rcn.com <singhvan at rcn.com>, Ashish Kothari
<ashishkotharialternative at gmail.com>
CC: Nagraj Adve <nagraj.adve at gmail.com>,
soumyadutta_delhi at rediffmail.com <soumyadutta_delhi at rediffmail.com>,
sagdhara at gmail.com <sagdhara at gmail.com>
Dear all,
Further to my email the other day, I am enclosing a syllabus for a
postgraduate course I wrote on cosmopolitics and how the notion has been
taken up by the ontological turn to compose a radical challenge to
modern hegemonies of state conduct and treatment of indigenous peoples.
I would be happy to give such a course in India to further understanding
of the field, and with the aim of establishing future research
collaborations with staff. We hope to have a large conference at UCL on
Cosmopolitics of Climate Change in 2023, and this is an ideal
opportunity for me to contact scholars interested in participatory work
on these themes.
Best wishes,
Rosalyn
Dr. Rosalyn Bold
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Social Anthropology
University College London.
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*From:* Bold, Rosalyn <r.bold at ucl.ac.uk>
*Sent:* 10 January 2021 18:02
*To:* singhvan at rcn.com <singhvan at rcn.com>; Ashish Kothari
<ashishkotharialternative at gmail.com>
*Cc:* Nagraj Adve <nagraj.adve at gmail.com>;
soumyadutta_delhi at rediffmail.com <soumyadutta_delhi at rediffmail.com>;
sagdhara at gmail.com <sagdhara at gmail.com>
*Subject:* Re: research collaborations on creating a cosmopolitics of
climate change
Hello everyone,
Many thanks for your replies Ashish and Vandana, it's great to hear from
you.
I am very interested in the work of Kalpa Vikrish, and find the closest
similarities to my research direction expressed in your note 'Can we
collectively search for frameworks and visions that pose fundamental
alternatives to today’s dominant economic and political system? How can
such frameworks and visions build on an existing heritage of ideas and
worldviews and cultures, and on past or new grassroots practice?'
I hope to bring perspectives from Latin America on these issues,
constituting indigenous alternatives to 'development' and accompanying
extractivist ideologies, and to learn about Indian alternatives and
worldviews.
Good to be in touch with you all. I'd love to organise a seminar series,
wherever in the country would be the most relevant or even in more than
one location. It could also be interesting to situate myself with a
department as a Visiting Fellow, wherever a concentration of scholars
interested in collaborating on these issues are located. I welcome your
suggestions. Many thanks for opening up networks Ashish and Vandana.
Best wishes, and anticipating hearing more from you soon!
Rosalyn
Dr. Rosalyn Bold
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Social Anthropology
University College London.
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*From:* singhvan at rcn.com <singhvan at rcn.com>
*Sent:* 10 January 2021 17:45
*To:* Ashish Kothari <ashishkotharialternative at gmail.com>
*Cc:* Nagraj Adve <nagraj.adve at gmail.com>; Bold, Rosalyn
<r.bold at ucl.ac.uk>; soumyadutta_delhi at rediffmail.com
<soumyadutta_delhi at rediffmail.com>; sagdhara at gmail.com <sagdhara at gmail.com>
*Subject:* Re: research collaborations on creating a cosmopolitics of
climate change
Dear Rosalyn (thanks, Ashish, for forwarding),
Your work sounds really intriguing and important! I'm a physicist
working on a transdisciplinary, justice-centred climate pedagogy, with
insights from experiences of indigenous people. I'm also interested in
the ontological issues around climate change, especially as articulated
in Indigenous futurisms, and as a speculative fiction writer. I've read
some Haraway and Barad, although not an expert by any means. I will
look through the link you included in your email to Ashish. I'll also
think about names of scholars in India who might be helpful (I'm based
in the US although my focus with regard to community experiences of
climate change is India). My friend Nagraj, copied here, is based in
Delhi and will, I am sure, be able to suggest something. I suspect
there will be many scholars in India interested in hearing from you
about your work - once I have a better idea of it, I will write back
with suggestions.
Thanks for getting in touch!
Vandana
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*From: *"Ashish Kothari" <ashishkotharialternative at gmail.com>
*To: *"Rosalyn Bold" <r.bold at ucl.ac.uk>
*Cc: *"Nagraj Adve" <nagraj.adve at gmail.com>, "Vandana Singh"
<singhvan at rcn.com>, "Soumya Dutta" <soumyadutta_delhi at rediffmail.com>,
"Sagar Dhara" <sagdhara at gmail.com>
*Sent: *Friday, January 8, 2021 5:38:20 AM
*Subject: *Re: research collaborations on creating a cosmopolitics of
climate change
Dear Rosalyn,
thanks for your mail ... I am connecting you two forums, Teachers
Against Climate Change, and the South Asia Peoples Action on Climate
Crisis (SAPACC), that I think would be ideal for your purpose ... and
through them and pehraps in collaboration with Vikalp Sangam process
(www.vikalpsangam.org <http://www.vikalpsangam.org>) if necessary, there
could be some events like what you suggest below ... Nagaraj, Vandana,
Soumya, Sagar, marked here, should be able to suggest more.
Climate is really not my area of work in any specific way, so its best
you discuss with them ...
generally on the issue of what you call cosmopolitics, the attached may
be of use ... our work has been on such issues, which are of course
linked to climate crisis (what is not?), but not directly or explicitly so.
thanks,
ashish
On 07/01/21 12:22 am, Bold, Rosalyn wrote:
Dear Sir,
I am a scholar of environmental anthropology at University College
London and will be visiting India early 2021. Although my regular
fieldsite is Latin America, I am looking to learn about and
collaborate with colleagues working on similar issues to myself in
India, expanding research horizons and collaborating across
continents, creating a cosmopolitics of climate change. Your work
was recommended by my colleague Sahil Nijhawan, and I have enjoyed
reading your articles and research initiatives.
I am currently working on Creating a Cosmopolitics of Climate
Change, and have published a volume on perceptions of climate change
among diverse Latin American indigenous communities, dealing with
whether they consider we are at 'the end of the world', how worlds
have ended before, and whether new worlds are possible. Indigenous
communities are as I´m sure you`re aware employing non-modern
worlding practices as powerful forms of activism against
extractivist projects; my work lies loosely within the political
ontology school, proposing we view contrasting cosmological currents
interacting in cosmoscapes.
https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030138592
<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030138592>
Indigenous Perceptions of the End of the World - Creating a
Cosmopolitics of Change | Rosalyn Bold | Palgrave Macmillan
<https://www.palgrave.com/gp/book/9783030138592>
This volume, edited by Rosalyn Bold, brings together perspectives
from Central America, Mexico, the Amazon, and the Andes to bear on
scientific, hegemonic narratives of climate change to create cracks
that open the way for new worlds into being for readers.
www.palgrave.com <http://www.palgrave.com>
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rosalyn_Bold3
<https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rosalyn_Bold3>
I am greatly interested in the Indian scholarship on these and
related themes, and wonder if it might be possible to arrange a
shared seminar series whilst I am in the country, or to participate
in existing series on these themes? I would be happy to share my
work in whatever forms you might suggest, and would be very
interested to learn more of contemporary relevant scholarship and
activism in South Asia.
Best wishes
Rosalyn
Dr. Rosalyn Bold
Honorary Research Fellow
Department of Social Anthropology
University College London.
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