Hands on the land, heart in community: Returning cultural fires
By Deniss Martinez, Environmental Health News
We know the best way to counteract the destruction of land is to love the land. Love it radically and fiercely. After all, we are the land.
Tag: knowledges
Open Letters to policy makers and to the European Commission : No new science-policy interface for food systems
By Agroecology Now Staff, Agroecology Now!
With its one-dimensional focus on modern science as the gatekeeper of ‘truth,’ the new SPI is in fact designed to exclude many of the knowledges (e.g., Indigenous, experiential, farmers’, tacit, feminine) that are now needed to deal with uncertainty and co-create more just and sustainable food, farming, and land use systems.
E-communitarian Democracy: What is it?
By Sirio López Velasco, Rebelion.org
We consider democracy especially in its direct, participatory and/or representative forms, and for the satisfaction of individual needs (within the ecological frugality prescribed by the third fundamental norm of ethics, and respect for interculturality).
What Could Possibly Go Right?: Episode 13 Lyla June
By Vicki Robin, Lyla June Johnston, Resilience.org
Lyla June, musician, anthropologist and activist, introduces us to the Seven Generations New Deal and how applying this has the potential to create “what could possibly go right”.
The Powerful Alliance Between Integrated Science and Traditional Food Systems
By Daniel Henryk Rasolt, Thrive
We are in desperate need of more integrated approaches that recognize our interdependent place in the natural world. Strengthening interdisciplinary and intercultural collaboration will encourage a paradigm-shift towards integration, as will the sharing of knowledge between people with different worldviews.
Crossing the Threshold
By Dougald Hine, Bella Caledonia
To cross this threshold is to become vulnerable: one way or another, you can be changed by what you come to know, and that change may come in the form of loss. Perhaps the loss of who you thought you were, the stories you liked to tell about yourself.
Epistemological divide: How we live in two different worlds of understanding
By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights
Epistemology is the study of how we know things. All of us cycle between two main ways of knowing in our modern culture: 1) the rational, reductionist way and 2) the holistic, relational, intuitive way. By far the most dominant way is the rational, reductionist way and our institutions, scientific, economic, financial and organizational are governed by this way of thinking.
Three Knowledge Mobilization Strategies
By Colin Anderson, People's Knowledge
How can we engage in effective knowledge mobilization in wider processes of change working towards greater social justice and sustainability? To what extent can researchers play a role in co-producing and mobilizing knowledge in these processes of change with social movements and communities?
Tomorrow’s Food Skills
By Wayne Roberts, Resilience.org
The modern food movement took the shape it retains today during those 15 years from 1995 to 2010. Food movements were among the first to embrace the understanding that knowledge and wisdom had to move from narrow fields of specialization to comprehensive and open-ended searching.