[PeDAGoG] A shout out to Melanie Bush

Sat May 28 22:59:06 CEST 2022

How wonderful!
Pallavi and I will meet up mid-June and compile materials to send to anyone
interested.

Stay tuned! Thank you for sharing our excitement.

On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 7:20 PM Radhika Mittal <dr.radhikamittal at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I would like to participate in this too! It’s sounds like such a wonderful
> exercise! Should be very supportive for my class in sustainability
> communication. Sign me up!
>
> Radhika
>
> On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 15:34 Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:
>
>> Me too, Melanie!
>>
>> (I'm embarrassed I didn't pick her brain enough on this topic because
>> last night we enjoyed a Cuban meal and covered many other controversies, at
>> my favourite new restaurant in the bohemian Johannesburg suburb of
>> Melville, where her visit to quite a diverse set of comrades is reigniting
>> some internationalism, solidarity-economies and alternative pedagogies that
>> have been dormant too long.)
>> On 5/28/2022 2:04 PM, Vasna Ramasar wrote:
>>
>> Yes, please I would love to learn more too and apply it with my new batch
>> of Masters students in my Culture, Power and Sustainability programme at
>> Lund University!
>>
>> Sounds exciting - thanks Melanie!
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Vasna Ramasar (Dr)
>> Associate Senior Lecturer: Division of Human Ecology, Department of Human
>> Geography
>> Research Affiliate: Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies
>> Programme Director: Masters in Culture, Power and Sustainability
>> Lund University
>> Email: vasna.ramasar at hek.lu.se
>> Tel: +4550100654
>> Web: https://www.keg.lu.se/ramasar-vasna
>>
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>> *From:* GTA-PeDAGoG <gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org>
>> <gta-pedagog-bounces at lists.ourproject.org> on behalf of Melanie Bush
>> <melanie.e.l.bush at gmail.com> <melanie.e.l.bush at gmail.com>
>> *Sent:* 28 May 2022 12:36:51
>>
>>
>> *To:* PeDAGoG: Post-Development Academic-Activist Global Group
>> *Subject:* Re: [PeDAGoG] A shout out to Melanie Bush
>>
>> Of course! Perhaps we can both share with you so you see our approaches.
>> Ok Pallavi?
>>
>> Any one interested just email us…
>>
>> On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 12:14 PM <singhvan at rcn.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks for this fascinating discussion, Pallavi and Melanie - would you
>>> be willing to share details about this assignment?  I'd be interested in
>>> trying it out with my students.
>>> Best,
>>> Vandana
>>>
>>> ------------------------------
>>> *From: *"Melanie Bush" <melanie.e.l.bush at gmail.com>
>>> *To: *"PeDAGoG" <gta-pedagog at lists.ourproject.org>
>>> *Cc: *"Global Tapestry of Alternatives" <gta at lists.riseup.net>
>>> *Sent: *Saturday, May 28, 2022 5:42:05 AM
>>>
>>> *Subject: *Re: [PeDAGoG] A shout out to Melanie Bush
>>>
>>> Pallavi, I am moved by your experience and your generosity.  Every time
>>> I use this assignment the students go from being extremely skeptical -
>>> including saying things like what do I have to offer and how could one hour
>>> matter - to being opened to affirmations of worth and possibility.
>>> Perhaps we might do a joint essay?
>>>
>>> We've already begun exploring how we might match our students with each
>>> other in a future time bank experience.  I feel certain we'll figure out
>>> how to do that for an extraordinary experience.
>>>
>>> I'll also report that from the PeDaGoG network, Sayan and I connected.
>>> One of his colleagues at WITS CDS spoke with my Ethnicity class this spring
>>> (as did Devika btw), and I spoke with folks at the center yesterday and
>>> we'll be meeting up again later today. Also met with Patrick Bond
>>> yesterday, Ashish, who I believe you know well.
>>>
>>> Building forward with inspiration from all of you. Thank you Ashish and
>>> the GTA core team for all your efforts in pulling us together.   Very
>>> grateful to be a part of this initiative.
>>>
>>> Blessings all,
>>> Melanie
>>>
>>> On Sat, May 28, 2022 at 11:31 AM Ashish Kothari <
>>> ashishkothari at riseup.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> That's amazing and inspiring, Pallavi! And thanks Melanie! This is so
>>>> much the essence of this kind of forum and network ... and it probably
>>>> happens every once in a while but is not always reported back. In the
>>>> Vikalp Sangam process we get such news occasionally, of bilateral or
>>>> multilateral linkages made at the Sangam confluences or online, resulting
>>>> in some wonderful collaborations and actions, and it then all seems worth
>>>> the constant emailing, phoning, and following up! :)
>>>>
>>>> It would be great to get one or more of the students to write about
>>>> this experience, which we can carry on vikalp sangam website .. and perhaps
>>>> they can also publish in one of the youth magazines? And/or you writing
>>>> about it ... with a bit more elaboration on what they tried, how they were
>>>> transformed etc ?
>>>>
>>>> (I am copying in here also the GTA core team to let them know of this).
>>>>
>>>> ashish
>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>>
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>>>> On 28/05/22 1:09 pm, Pallavi Varma Patil wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dear PeDAGoG Members,
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to share a recent interesting and meaningful experience that
>>>> came about directly as a result of this network.
>>>>
>>>> You are aware (mostly thanks to my own emails) that Sujit and I offered
>>>> the first session in the new webinar series called 'Learnings for
>>>> Alternative Futures' (designed in collaboration with several valuable
>>>> networks)  by presenting our initiative, 'Living Utopias' on April 1,
>>>> 2022.  It was a session with a small group and we had a very useful
>>>> conversation amongst the participants. One of them , Melanie Bush (more on
>>>> her in our google sheet <https://bit.ly/3MWczsB> ) reached out to us
>>>> in the following week and we had a lovely conversation about pedagogies and
>>>> experiential learning- making abstract values more tangible.
>>>>
>>>> And so I learnt from Melanie (with her generous sharing of ideas ) how
>>>> to set up an assignment around a Time Bank in a classroom space . I was
>>>> skeptical but my students in an Indian University (36 of them) rose to the
>>>> occasion and exceeded the brief and more. They paired up on their own and
>>>> shared their skills and gifts. So from bike rides to coffee evenings to
>>>> cooking, a lake walk, a photoshoot, braiding hair,  to watching a film
>>>> together, playing childhood games - they completed their time sharing tasks
>>>> in  myriad ways.
>>>>
>>>> And just like that my University class transformed like magic . We had
>>>> a whole unit on Solidarity Economics with the usual reading list but now
>>>> each one of them came back to class with a different mind set towards
>>>> learning. They were so much more engaged as participants in ideas
>>>> around Living Utopias.  Without ANY exception I had 36 reflections that
>>>> spoke about the huge impact a small assignment made on the possibilities
>>>> that friendships and connections bring,
>>>>
>>>> It was difficult to read their sensitive reflections without tearing
>>>> up. These students are in the age group of 22-27 years. Coming out of COVID
>>>> closures, and increased polarisation in the world around them,  several are
>>>> struggling to make and maintain real physical comradeship and friendships.
>>>> Many are also very despondent about the future.
>>>> In this context, thanks to such a  simple assignment, I got to connect
>>>> with my students in a very different and humane way.
>>>>
>>>> I wanted to publicly thank Melanie in this forum for this impromptu
>>>> collaboration.  Following our webinar was Dan Baron's fantastic session and
>>>> a 3rd webinar in the series is on its way. I hope what is now set rolling
>>>> continues and we do not stop soon.
>>>>
>>>> Because look how New York affected  Bangalore!.
>>>>
>>>> Best,
>>>> Pallavi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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>>>
>>> --
>>>
>>> .............................................
>>> Rod Bush: Lessons from a Radical Black Scholar on Liberation, Love, and
>>> Justice
>>> Open access download for teaching purposes
>>> <https://www.okcir.com/product/rod-bush-lessons-from-a-radical-black-scholar-on-liberation-love-and-justice/>
>>> https://rodbush.org/
>>>
>>> ***********************************************************************
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>>> Free with audible trial:
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>>>
>>> ..........................................
>>>
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>>>
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>> --
>>
>> .............................................
>> Rod Bush: Lessons from a Radical Black Scholar on Liberation, Love, and
>> Justice
>> Open access download for teaching purposes
>> <https://www.okcir.com/product/rod-bush-lessons-from-a-radical-black-scholar-on-liberation-love-and-justice/>
>> https://rodbush.org/
>>
>> ***********************************************************************
>> Tensions in the American Dream: Rhetoric, Reverie or Reality
>> <http://tupress.temple.edu/book/0399>
>> Free with audible trial:
>> https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F44CBLK?ref=adbl_mfpdp_owns
>> Author proceeds go to Cooperation Jackson
>> <https://cooperationjackson.org/>
>>
>> ..........................................
>>
>> Everyday Forms of Whiteness: Understanding Race in a "Post-Racial" World
>> <https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780742599994/Everyday-Forms-of-Whiteness-Understanding-Race-in-a-'Post-Racial'-World-Second-Edition>
>>
>>
>> *Eternal and infinite love for you, yours & the ongoing struggle  *
>>
>> *for dignity, justice, wisdom and peace. *
>>
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-- 

.............................................
Rod Bush: Lessons from a Radical Black Scholar on Liberation, Love, and
Justice
Open access download for teaching purposes
<https://www.okcir.com/product/rod-bush-lessons-from-a-radical-black-scholar-on-liberation-love-and-justice/>
https://rodbush.org/

***********************************************************************
Tensions in the American Dream: Rhetoric, Reverie or Reality
<http://tupress.temple.edu/book/0399>
Free with audible trial:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F44CBLK?ref=adbl_mfpdp_owns
Author proceeds go to Cooperation Jackson <https://cooperationjackson.org/>

..........................................

Everyday Forms of Whiteness: Understanding Race in a "Post-Racial" World
<https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780742599994/Everyday-Forms-of-Whiteness-Understanding-Race-in-a-'Post-Racial'-World-Second-Edition>

*Eternal and infinite love for you, yours & the ongoing struggle *

*for dignity, justice, wisdom and peace.*
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