[PeDAGoG] Fwd: research collaborations on creating a cosmopolitics of climate change

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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