@loppear Very curious to hear your take on this!
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Sean started reading The moral intelligence of children by Robert Coles
So I’m starting my class on peace, conflict, non-violence, and war next week. I went back to I’d Rather Teach Peace (https://bookwyrm.social/book/1352415/review#reviews ) to see what I could draw, and this book was listed in the “Further Reading” section.
I’m not gonna read the whole thing, and the parts I am reading almost demand a side-by-side reading of Fanon to keep from getting sucked into the ironically a-moral outlook on political economy and imperialism… but there are undoubtedly some useful bits in here.
Sean wants to read Kurdish Women's Movement by Dilar Dirik
Sean wants to read The Telling by Ursula K. Le Guin
Sean commented on Freedom Dreams by Robin D.G. Kelley
I’ve skimmed and jumped around in this but I need to commit some time to it. I woke up thinking about it and listened to the beginning of this talk while doing dishes and it is feeling more urgent: www.youtube.com/live/RXBHAx_DLIg?si=AmpHddKHlNNYM4OG
Sean wants to read Power of Gentleness by Anne Dufourmantelle
Power of Gentleness by Anne Dufourmantelle, Katherine Payne, Vincent Sallé, and 1 other
Sean wants to read We Keep Us Safe by Van Jones
We Keep Us Safe by Van Jones, Zach Norris
A groundbreaking new vision for public safety that overturns more than 200 years of fear-based discrimination, othering, and punishment
As …
Sean wants to read Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel
No one in the twentieth century had a greater impact on world history than Deng Xiaoping. And no scholar is …
Sean quoted Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal
Future historians may call the early-twenty-first-century United States a golden age, pointing to extraordinary wealth, cures and illness preventions never before possible, overdue reckonings with past injustice, unprecedented diversity of foods for billions of people, and amazing technologies (85 percent of Americans owned a handheld supercomputer!). Or they may describe our era the way a book on the Huhugam entitled “Centuries of Decline” categorizes the late decades of that civilization: a time of "overpopulation, environmental degradation, resource shortages, poor health, social fragmentation, diffuse and ineffective leadership and a struggle to cope." I hope future historians will understand that both versions have their truth.
— Native Nations by Kathleen DuVal (Page 70)
Holy shit. This seems important right now.
Chapter 2 in general is really significant… people making the conscious decision to de-centralize, de-urbanize, and create culture, politics, and economics of freedom…
Sean commented on The Four Pivots by Shawn Ginwright
Started this up again, for obvious reasons.
Sean started reading Dying for an IPhone by Jenny Chan
I checked this out at our monthly school trip to the library. LOTS of kids wanted to know what it is about. So it’s gonna be my “Drop Everything And Read” book now. I hope the provocative title and cover art keep inspiring students to ask questions. One thing right away: is this my issue with Wark’s book… that the fundamental aspects of capitalism are in fact alive and well? Like, how do “information vectors” have anything to do with the experience of Foxconn workers, directly?
Sean finished reading Sitting Pretty by Rebekah Taussig
A memoir-in-essays from disability advocate and creator of the Instagram account @sitting_pretty Rebekah Taussig, processing …
At first I wasn’t sure I was gonna be able to bridge the generational divide between me and the author — the Instagramishness of the prose felt jarring and heavy-handed— but the sincerity and openness of the storytelling won me over. Thanks, Book Club!
Sean wants to read Teaching democracy by being democratic by Theodore Lewis Becker (Praeger series in transformational politics and political science,)
The best way to teach democracy has been the subject of an ongoing debate for …
Well this woulda come in handy a few years ago
Sean started reading Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life by Barbara J. Fields
Next book club book. I’m wondering how it will engage with Kendi, Omi & Winant, and especially Allen.