<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hello Everyone:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Like Shristee, I have been part of this group from the beginning but haven't introduced myself in spite of several such attempts in the past few weeks. Part of the reason is that I think I am really an odd one out in this group - my research and teaching at this point strictly falls within the conventional, dominant paradigms. I have read some amazing emails in the group and often thought Ashish was too kind to include me in this group. I won't be able to speak the same language that many of you are capable of so you have to bear with me.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Having said that, I have been working in environmental policy and management for close to 25 years now - first as a consultant in a corporate setting, then as a doctoral student of environmental policy, and for the past 10 years as a faculty at a management school in India. When I reflect on my experience, it has been becoming increasingly obvious that the dominant models of organizing the society are incompatible with addressing the most important problems such as environmental degradation, inequities, and climate crisis that the society is facing today. Over the past 2-3 years, George, a colleague who is also part of this group, and I have been exploring ways to invest our time in bringing the alternative models to our classrooms through our own research and networks such as these. So we have nothing to show for so far but hope to make progress in the coming few years, including perhaps a short elective course in our MBA programme on alternatives to corporate capitalism.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I may sound selfish here but I think at this point, we have more to learn from this group than to contribute to it intellectually. I hope that is okay.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">I look forward to engaging with many of you on 8 July.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Best,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small">Mohan</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 12:25 PM Shrishtee Bajpai <<a href="mailto:shrishteebajpai@gmail.com">shrishteebajpai@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Dear all, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Though I have been part of this group from the start, I dont think I have had the chance to introduce myself. So, I will take the opportunity now. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I am an activist-researcher from India working with Kalpavriksh- an environment action group. I help in coordinating the Vikalp Sangam (Alternatives Confluence) process in India and now also the Global Tapestry of Alternatives along with some colleagues who are on the list. I have been primarily working on documenting, researching and networking on alternatives to development and dominant forms of political and economic governance. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">I am super excited to be in the group as I am also deeply interested in exploring research, pedagogy and activism from a decolonial perspective. And now, when I am trying to opt for higher studies, I am finding it really difficult to find a place to study where pedagogy is decolonised and rooted in peoples' experiences. Places where different ways of thinking and learning apparatus are promoted. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Hoping that through this group, I am able to discover some such places. Would be indebted if anyone has any initial suggestions. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Looking forward to listening in and learning more on the 8th, </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">Shrishtee </div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sun, Jul 5, 2020 at 2:18 AM Katerina Brandes <<a href="mailto:katerinabrandes@posteo.de" target="_blank">katerinabrandes@posteo.de</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>Hi everyone, <br>
</p>
<p>yes, thank you Bardon for inviting us to introduce ourselves :).
<br>
</p>
<p>My name is Katerina and I find it very hard to introduce myself.
But why I joined this network is that I am super interested in
alternative teaching methodologies and trying to bring them into
the classes that I am involved in - which are few, but let's see
where the future brings me. I am involved in adult education on
postdevelopment as a critique of development, critique of
development cooperation, and alternatives to both (including
degrowth). I recently used the book the pluriverse during class to
inspire students about alternatives to development, they really
liked it :). I am neither a PhD, nor affiliated as a researcher at
a university, I am just involved here and there, inside and
outside university. Actually I believe rather in the system of
ecoversities than universities, and still I am taking part inside
and outside the system. Just the typical development cooperation
system itself I decided to keep away from. I am active in a very
young theater collective, where we bring together "mainstream
scientific facts" and emotional embodied positionalities. We are
hoping to bring theater more into the academic field or the
adademia more out engaged with the grassroots. I am excited about
non-rational teaching methods in (university) classes (including
co-creative approaches, theater methods, connecting with personal
emotional experiences, etc.) and as such pushing the boundaries of
what is possible.</p>
<p>Looking forward to inspiring each other with this mailing list to
push the boundaries even further.</p>
<p>Kind greetings, <br>
</p>
<p>Katerina<br>
</p>
<p><br>
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<div>On 01.07.2020 20:33, Irene Sotiropoulou
wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Hello everyone,
<div><br>
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<div>I am very happy to be a member of the PeDAGoG community. <br>
<div><br>
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<div>Brandon, thank you so much for your message and the
advice. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>My name is Irene and at the moment I am working as a
researcher at the Energy and Environment Institute of the
University of Hull, UK. </div>
<div>My specialty is heterodox economics, with an emphasis on
social and solidarity economy, feminist economics,
ecological economics, decolonial economics, heterodox
finance and non-monetary economies, sharing practices,
economics of the commons, grassroots economics. In Hull I do
research about the local farmers' markets. </div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Some days ago i added into the Pedagog pad a link to
teaching material i have online <a href="https://hull.academia.edu/IreneSotiropoulou/Teaching-Documents" target="_blank">https://hull.academia.edu/IreneSotiropoulou/Teaching-Documents</a>.
Most of it is in English. On each document there is
information about the level of teaching it is related to and
the place/institution where the teaching took place. In case
I will be teaching next year, I will be adding more
material. If you have feedback or you need any further
information about those documents, please, feel free to
contact me. </div>
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</div>
<div>Thank you very much. I am very glad to be among you. </div>
<div>Best regards, </div>
<div>Irene</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">Στις Τετ, 1 Ιουλ 2020 στις
5:41 μ.μ., ο/η Brandon Liu <<a href="mailto:brandon.k.liu@gmail.com" target="_blank">brandon.k.liu@gmail.com</a>>
έγραψε:<br>
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<div>Dear PeDAGoG community,</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Welcome to all the new members who have joined! We
would love to have you introduce yourselves to the
group if you haven't already.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>At the beginning of each month, I send out an email
for "open discussion and updates" as a way to invite
everyone to share something that's on their mind with
the group. It could be to initiate discussion on a
topic or share recent updates from one's own work.
Feel free to reply directly to this email or start a
new thread. Anything relating to alternative teaching
and learning experiences, materials, tools, and
perspectives relating to the themes of
post-development, broadly understood, would be most
welcome.</div>
<div><br>
</div>
<div>Best,</div>
<div>Brandon<br>
</div>
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“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more successful people. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of every kind. It needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and humane. And these qualities have little to do with success as we have defined it.”
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