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ABSTRACT
The materiality of violence within our biosphere is a complex mix of glaringly painful, ameliorable possibilities on multiple scales, and this is a dialogic reflection and a topographical trail map that suggests that we can nourish ourselves and each other in ways that contribute to anti-oppressive realities. In particular, by engaging with the dimensions of time, space, and collective undoing of institutional hierarchies and linear models of thinking and building, we follow a pathway toward dismantling violence and (re)building collective education for more just worlds. Further, we recognize education as an ecosystem that is intimately related to environmental justice, and we argue that sustainable reimaginings of both are similarly reliant on intricate mappings of the relationships between time, collective and individual histories, and each other.
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Notes
1 But which comes first, hero or heroism? Circling back to this question is already under way.
2 This collapse has been happening for some time, but the depth of it has only recently become visible.
3 Much of the time spent ‘writing’ is actually time spent staring. There are juncos in the snow outside the window. How I love them. But it is a race against time.
4 A tip of the hat to Raymond Carver and What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (originally published by Knopf in 1981) in the early 2000s, when I was working at a bookstore in downtown Berkeley, CA. Those moments are laced through this one, too, now. And buried in those moments is the fact that Carver reminds me of my childhood and of eating wild carrot in the Cascades with my father, who, thankfully, is of the Earth now and doesn’t have to fear and rage with the rest of us. The topography of a moment … it’s complicated.
5 They can be visited in virtual space at https://www.plenitudpr.org/.
6 N.B.: the future is now, and now, and now, and now, etc.
7 A nod to W.B. Yeats’s 1919 poem ‘The Second Coming', which may be read in full at https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43290/the-second-coming.
8 You may notice that the ‘we' has changed to ‘I'; it may change back again. This is because pausing with each other means pausing within ourselves as well. Meaningful dialogue with each other only comes from meaning dialogue within ourselves.
9 I happily and thankfully found this cut-out-able quote, which is now taped to my office bookcase, in my 2019 Nikki McClure Calendar. https://buyolympia.com/Item/nikki-large-format-print-you-are-not-too-late.
10 Lao Tzu. Sixth Century BCE.
11 Don’t ever let anyone tell you that a poker face is part of pedagogy.
12 We recommend the following translations of these texts: Iyengar (Citation2002), Easwaren (Citation2007).
13 Deeply buried in this moment, too, is gratitude for the luck [why luck?] that allows us to meet the old friends that we never knew we had until, over tea and through the woods, we find our way. For an excellent introduction to the work of Makiguchi, see Goulah and Gebert (Citation2009). And, for an excellent translation and discussion of the Lotus Sutra, see Reeves (Citation2008).
14 I would need to include a full bibliography of the works of these two writers to indicate the extent to which they influence my thoughts and actions, but for now: Freire (Citation1968/Citation2000), hooks (Citation1994).
15 Palmer (Citation1998/Citation2017). And, yes, I think of being ourselves as a practice.
16 Deeply buried in this moment, too, is one of my most painful days of teaching, at the end of which, inexplicably, the only thing I could do was watch a documentary about education. I suppose I am grateful to that pain for where it led me. For the documentary: Blunte, Marvin, dir. 6 Weeks to Mother’s Day. 2017. For more information on Moo Baan Dek, known in English as the Children’s Village School, visit https://childrensvillagethailand.org/.
17 Deeply buried in this moment, too, is the group of friends with which I navigated and marvelled at Jemisin’s worlds. I refer here to the entire Broken Earth trilogy, but to begin: Jemisin (Citation2015).
18 N.B.: the past and the future are both now, and now, and now, and now, etc.
19 Often considered a spatial humanities and literary methodology, deep mapping is a process of naming and interconnecting multilayered, multifaceted, and finely detailed sense(s) of place, narrative, history, memory, and more that go beyond two-dimensional maps. It is rooted quite literally in the biosphere. See, for instance, Heat-Moon (Citation1991), Roberts (Citation2016), Bloom and Sacramento (Citation2018).
20 The principals of emergent strategy, as defined by adrienne maree brown (Citation2017), include change is constant; there is enough time for the right work; move at the speed of trust; less prep, more presence; and what you pay attention to grows (pp. 41–42). Brown also engages with ‘emergence' as ‘the way complex systems and patterns arise out of a multiplicity of relatively simple interactions' (p. 13) where we thrive by figuring out how to be in community. As a strategy, it is ‘ways for humans to practice being in right relationship to our home and each other, to practice complexity, and grow a compelling future together through relatively simple interactions' and it is a ‘philosophy for how to be in harmony and love, in and with the world’ (p. 24). Throughout the text are variety of lists and mappings to engage with the praxis of emergent strategies and all of its parts, layers, and multitudes.
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Erin Katherine Krafft
Erin Katherine Krafft is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work focuses on transnational feminisms and the relationship between different manifestations of institutional power and collective action. She is an Assistant Professor of Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and co-chair of the board of RIOT RI, an organization in Providence, Rhode Island that uses music creation to foster collective empowerment and the development of healthy identities in girls, women, trans, and gender-expansive youth and adults.
Heather M. Turcotte
Heather M. Turcotte is committed to anti-oppressive transnational feminist approaches to decolonizing academia, the interstate system, and daily exchange. She is an associate professor in Crime and Justice Studies at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth and the Executive Editor of the Journal of Feminist Scholarship. Her work can be found on academia.edu and ResearchGate.