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<p>Dear PeDAGoG colleagues, yesterday's call was exciting, it was
great to connect, to see some known faces and put faces to known
names ... as also get to know new names/faces! <br>
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<p>Lara's mail below prompts me to follow up on one of the
suggestions that I made y'day, for a series of online events
(webconfluences? getting bored of webinars!) that can feature some
of the exciting work that so many of you are doing. <br>
</p>
<p>Lara's group is going to be on one of the webinars in the ongoing
series of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives
(<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars">https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/webinars</a>), and we can
feature some of you in the same series, or set up a PeDAGoG series
if there is energy, inclination, and 2-3 volunteers! this could
also be a forum to generate stories/material that can be put out
in other ways, including articles. <br>
</p>
<p>If this idea resonates, perhaps a small group can be set up to
take it further? One or two of you who know the alternative
education scene a bit more than people like me, could perhaps
anchor this? <br>
</p>
<p>thanks, <br>
</p>
<p>ashish <br>
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<p><br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="72">LATEST! Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (thepluriverse.org)
and <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org">www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org</a>
Ashish Kothari
Kalpavriksh
Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa
908 Deccan Gymkhana
Pune 411004, India
Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://kalpavriksh.org">http://kalpavriksh.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.vikalpsangam.org">www.vikalpsangam.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org">www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.iccaconsortium.org">www.iccaconsortium.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.acknowlej.org">www.acknowlej.org</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in/">http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in/</a>
Twitter: @chikikothari
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 08/07/20 9:15 pm, Lara Monticelli
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style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Dear Pedagog
community,</span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>We are
finally able to introduce ourselves to this amazingly
engaged community!</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Apologies for
not having done so before, but we have been struggling
with the Covid-19 situation here in Italy (where we
are based at the moment) and with some health issues.
<br>
</span></span></font></p>
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0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>We are <a
href="https://www.cbs.dk/en/research/departments-and-centres/department-of-management-politics-and-philosophy/staff/lmompp"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Lara
Monticelli</a> and <a
href="https://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/business/people/academic/torsten-geelan"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Torsten
Geelan</a>, respectively, Assistant Professor at
Copenhagen Business School and Research Fellow at the
University of Copenhagen (from Sept. 2020 onwards). We
are both early-career sociologists struggling to
survive in neoliberal academia, and now that we have
some teaching experience, we are keen to engage in
exchanges on critical pedagogy aimed at raising
critical consciousness amongst educators and students.
<br>
</span></span></font></p>
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0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> <br>
</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>Albeit our
different backgrounds, we are both interested in going
beyond the classic critiques of capitalism and
deepening our understanding of contemporary
alternatives, why and when they succeed or fail, and
how they can thrive.<br>
</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>We realized
that after the North Atlantic financial crisis of
2009, many researchers started to be interested
(again) in alternatives to capitalism, but there was
not an <b>interdisciplinary community</b> where these
various researchers (coming from many different fields
such as sociology, history, ecology, philosophy,
economics, etc...) could meet and exchange their
ideas, their views and their projects.<br>
</span></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>For this
reason, in 2018 we decided to found a <b>new research
network (titled Alternatives to Capitalism) within
SASE</b> - <a href="https://sase.org/"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">Society for
the Advancement of Socio-Economics</a>.<br>
</span></span></font></p>
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0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span>The network
arose from the renewed debate about
the <b>future of capitalism</b> and the urgent need
to <b>prefigure and enact alternatives</b>
that can help tackle the multiple intertwined crises
that societies currently
face – high and rising inequality of income and power,
eroding democracy and
citizens´ rights, climate change and a shrinking
welfare state. </span></span></font></p>
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style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span> </span></span></font></div>
<div style="text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span></span><span><span></span></span>Since
2018, we have organized gatherings in Kyoto (Japan), New
York city (at the New School), and this year <a
href="https://sase.confex.com/sase/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Program/1187"
moz-do-not-send="true">fully online</a> due to the
Covid-19 situation (but the conference was planned to
take place at the University of Amsterdam). <br>
<span></span></span></font>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><font
size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">You
can browse our program here:</span></font></p>
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size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><u><a
href="https://sase.confex.com/sase/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Program/1187"
moz-do-not-send="true">https://sase.confex.com/sase/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Program/1187</a></u></span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">In parallel with
our annual gatherings which are usually held in June or
July each year, we interact with our vibrant community
through a <b>mailing list</b> (which counts almost 400
members at the moment). <br>
</span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">We warmly invite
you to join us by subscribing here: <br>
</span></font></p>
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0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><u><a
href="https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?SUBED1=ALTERNATIVES-TO-CAPITALISM&A=1"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true">https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?SUBED1=ALTERNATIVES-TO-CAPITALISM&A=1</a></u></span></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">During our annual
gatherings, which are held every year in a different
city, it is fundamental for us to <b>engage with local
activists and organizations</b>. For instance, last
year in New York City<span style="color:black">, our
participants could tour </span><a
href="https://www.fountainhouse.org/"
style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span>Fountain
House</span></a><span style="color:black">, observe
a meeting, and
explore how this communities’ mental health program
uses decision-making by
consensus with staff and members</span><span
style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background:white none
repeat scroll 0% 0%">.<span> </span>In addition, </span><span>the
founder of </span><a
href="https://newyork.figmentproject.org/"
style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span>FIGMENT</span></a><span>
delved into how a free, annual participatory arts
festival started in NYC and spread
across North American cities. <span
style="color:black"><span></span></span></span></span></font></p>
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style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span><span></span></span><span
style="color:black"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="color:black">On another day, the<i> “<span>Worker
Cooperatives and the Labor Movement: A Co-op
Development Initiative in the Nation’s Largest
Union Local”</span></i></span><span>
<span style="color:black">roundtable featured</span> <span
style="color:black;background:white none repeat
scroll 0% 0%">speakers from 1199SEIU, the Open
Society Foundation, and
the Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations
and Worker Institute
at Cornell ILR.<span> </span>This session</span>
<span style="color:rgb(33,33,33);background:white none
repeat scroll 0% 0%">discussed an important
alternative
for organized labor, exploring why the largest union
local in the US is considering
worker cooperatives as a strategy. <br>
</span></span></span></font></p>
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0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in
0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Last year, we have
been also lucky enough to host two prominent guests such
as<span style="color:black"> the
founder and editor of </span><a
href="https://jacobinmag.com/"
style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span>Jacobin
Magazine</span></a><span style="color:black">,
Bhaskar Sunkara, who discussed
his new book </span><i><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white none
repeat scroll 0% 0%">The Socialist Manifesto: The
Case for Radical Politics in an Era of
Extreme Inequality</span></i><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white none
repeat scroll 0% 0%"> (Basic Books 2019) and
Professor </span><a
href="https://www.newschool.edu/lang/faculty/nancy-fraser/"
style="color:rgb(5,99,193);text-decoration:underline"
target="_blank" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
style="background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%">Nancy
Fraser</span></a><span
style="color:rgb(51,51,51);background:white none
repeat scroll 0% 0%"> who presented her new book <i>Capitalism.
A Conversation in Critical Theory</i> (Polity Press
2018). </span><span style="color:black"><span><br>
</span></span></span></font></p>
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0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
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style="color:black"><span><br>
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0.0001pt;text-align:left"><font size="2"><span
style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="color:black"><span>We are really glad to be
part of this community and we look forward to
creating strong bridges between the Alternatives to
Capitalism network, the Global Tapestry of
Alternatives, and the Pedagog community. <br>
</span></span></span></font></p>
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style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span
style="color:black"><span>In solidarity,<br>
</span></span></span></font></p>
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style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times",serif;color:black"><span><font
size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">Lara
and Torsten</span></font><br>
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