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Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom - to appreciate thousands of knowledge and wisdom systems existing globally; to preserve their much needed heritage. While the world is suffering the unwise neglect of this wisdom, it is time to learn and act before this knowledge is lost for the ages.
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LEARNING and CHANGE resources about Social Learning to Change the World ---- Cloud ---- Conversations, Learning and Change ---- Crises and Change ---- Dialogue ---- Social Learning Networks ---- Learning Theories and Methods ---- Change Methods ---- Human Development ---- Social Economy ---- Local Community Development ---- Web for Change ---- Indigenous Knowledge and Wisdom ---- Participation for Citizenship ---- Organizing and Leadership ---- Participatory Planning and Projects ---- Accountability ---- Thinkers and Theory (18)
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A propósito de Pierre Clastres y su “sociedad contra el Estado”Según sus investigaciones, las sociedades no jerárquicas poseen mecanismos culturales que impiden activamente la aparición de figuras de poder, sea aislando a los posibles candidatos a jefe, sea descartando completamente el mando y creando en cambio jefes con poder de aconsejar, con autoridad ...
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Archeology of violence - Pierre ClastresPierre Clastres broke up with his mentor Claude Levi-Strauss to collaborate with Gilles Deleuze and Felix Gattari on their Anti-Oedipus. He is the rare breed of political anthropologist—a Nietzschean—and his work presents us with a generalogy of power in a native state. For him, tribal societies ...
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Reef Conservation Strategy Backfires : NPRConservationists worried about overfishing on the Pacific island of Kiribati persuaded fishermen to pick coconuts instead. The strategy backfired: Coconut oil production increased, but so did fishing. It turns out, fishermen who earned more money in coconut agriculture had more leisure time ...
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Forest People May Lose Home in Kenyan Plan - NYTimes.comForest People May Lose Home in Kenyan Plan MARASHONI, Kenya — With the stroke of a pen, the last of Kenya ’s honey hunters may soon be homeless. Since time immemorial, the Ogiek have been Kenya’s traditional forest dwellers. They have stalked antelope with homemade bows, made medicine ...
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Claude Lévi-Strauss - Structural AnthropologySource: Claude Lévi-Strauss. Structural Anthropology, 1958, Allen Lane.
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Practical Action Consulting - 2 Nine experiences of democratising technologyLooks like a very intelligent and well-run effort at sensible technology/development approaches. Schumacher College is connected with it somehow: big stamp of approval.boabjohn added 7 weeks ago
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The Embryo's Eloquent FormAnother great piece on qualitative science from Steve Talbott. Explores the conversational dimensions of briging life into being, singing it up...speaking its name...the fractally consistent process by which all experience is reified.boabjohn added 2 months ago
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The Dark Mountain ProjectThis may not be what some people think of as a change methodology, but by aiming squarely at the metaphors by which we justify our actions, the Dark Mountain Project is operating in the territory perhaps most relevant to any change process.boabjohn added 2 months ago
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live localGreat example of semantic tools plus web2.5 social networks all hitched up to a fabulous local community concept.boabjohn added 5 months ago
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Special Issue: Postcolonial Children’s LiteratureThe editor's reflections under Description outlines the both the intricacies and subtleties of focusing a postcolonial lens in a meaningful way. Children's literature is one clear way of seeing what values - colonial, postcolonial, or other - are transmitted by the writer.Daly de Gagné added 7 months ago
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