Crisis as opportunity

Kothari, Ashish; Salleh, Ariel; Escobar, Arturo; Demaria, Federico; Acosta, Alberto

doi:10.4324/9780429492136-8

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“…Examples include the pan-Asian Interreligious Climate & Ecology Network (Parry, 2019), with its focus on developing a non-industrial growth society (IGS), the Global Ecovillage Network, and the applied philosophies of sufficiency economy, E.F. Schumacher's Small is Beautiful (Schumacher, 1999), buen vivir, Theory-U (Scharmer, 2009), eco-swaraj, and Ubuntu. Inspiration for alternative governance models can also be found in case-study collections such as "Pluriverse -A post-development dictionary" (Kothari et al, 2019).…”

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Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark

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A confluence of concerns about tropical forest loss, global warming, and social inequality drive calls to transform land use governance. Yet there is widespread debate about what must be transformed, by whom, and how. The increasing equation of transformation with ambitious, quantitative global targets, such as "net zero emissions" or "zero deforestation" has gained widespread appeal as a means to inspire action and hold powerful actors to account. However presenting targets themselves as the end goals of transformation, obscures both the means of achieving them and the social and environmental values that legitimate them. The escalation of targets for land use, in particular, is disconnected from targeted geographies, lacks accountability to socially diverse knowledge and priorities, and is readily appropriated by powerful actors at multiple scales. This paper argues instead, for an equity-based approach to transformation that reveals how unequal power distorts both the ends and the means of global governance. We illustrate this argument with five case-study "vignettes" in Indonesia, Ghana, Peru, and Brazil that reveal how de-contextualized, target-based thinking has reinforced state and corporate control over resources at the expense of local access, while largely failing to deliver the promised environmental outcomes. We conclude that equity-focused, case study research is critical not only to unpack the local consequences of pursuing global targets, but also to make visible alternative efforts to achieve deeper socio-environmental transformations.

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“…Most often, it is ‘ordinary care-giving mothers and grandmothers […] defending and reconstituting communal ways of being and place-based forms of autonomy. In doing so, they, like the Indigenous Others […] draw on non-patriarchal ways of doing, being, and knowing’ (Kothari et al, 2019, p. 111).…”

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Pedagogies of Feminist Resistance: Agrarian Movements in Africa

Ossome

2021

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journ

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In the historical course of agrarian transformation in Africa, the reconstitution and fragmentation of the peasantry along the lines of gender, ethnic, class, and racial divisions which facilitate their exploitation remains a central concern in the analysis of the peasant path, of which the exploitation of gendered labor has been a particularly important concern for feminist agrarian theorizations. In contribution to these debates, this article examines the ways in which feminist concerns have shaped, driven, and defined the social and political parameters of agrarian movements in Africa. Even though agrarian movements articulating gender questions are not generalizable as feminist, their concern with social, political, and economic structures of oppression and their approach to gendered oppression as a political question lends them to characterization as being feminist. Through an examination of the changing forms of women-led agrarian struggles, the article shows how women’s responses to the dominant structures and conditions of colonial and post-colonial capitalist accumulation could be characterized as feminist due to their social and political imperatives behind women’s resistance.

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“…A strong theme in this SI is decolonisation (Williams et al, 2018; Williams, 2021), which is necessary for learning Indigenous wisdom and particularly, renewing ways of relating to, restoring, and protecting places. Given the crisis of life in the biosphere, authors in this SI and elsewhere (Arnold et al, 2021; Kothari et al, 2019) assert that the time for Indigenous-led collective social renewal is now. “Indigenous survivance” is an active sense of Indigenous presence (Tuhiwai Smith, 2021, Vizenor, 2008).…”

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Indigenous philosophy in environmental education

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Paradies,

Wooltorton

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Aust. J. environ. educ.

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Crisis as opportunity

Cited by 24 publications

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Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark

Transforming land use governance: Global targets without equity miss the mark

Pedagogies of Feminist Resistance: Agrarian Movements in Africa

Indigenous philosophy in environmental education

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