Perspectives

This text is taken from the RAGA call letter which gives a detailed explanation of our project.

The workshops will follow five “vertical” THEMES:

and five “horizontal”

PERSPECTIVES:

DEGROWTH & CONSUMPTION illustrations: Selling us stuff: the myth of happiness through consumption; Commoditisation and monetisation; Endless growth; What should we produce; A local economy

FAIR SHARES: NORTH & SOUTH illustrations: The maths of consumption & resources; Imperialism & colonialism; Linking north and south issues & campaigns; Indigenous struggles; Women; Minorities

COMMON GOODS & EXTERNALITIES illustrations: Externalities for capitalists; Naturally common goods: air, water, health, education, land; Privatisation of common goods

PROGRESS v NATURE & INDIGENOUS CONSCIOUSNESS illustrations: Progress as destruction & dehumanisation; Humans and the natural ecosystem; natural services; biodiversity; Resources: stripping the earth; Indigenous consciousness, not living in mud huts; Happiness

TOOLS TO FIGHT WITH illustrations: Protest; Civil disobedience; Taking or defending what is ours; Education the masses; Collective work; Elections; Internet

with three PERVASIVE IDEAS that run throughout meeting.