This course is meant to allow students to examine key aspects I consider pillars of maintaining the current system in place with a lens or critic, to then explore alternative ways to exist that are life affirming, based in care, regenerative, . This course is founded in critical thinking and imagination. It is directed to anyone. The course ends with a final essay where students elaborate on how they envision of dismantling the system through regenerative initiatives.
Main Topics:
Imagination as a tool for Decolonization.
Settler colonialism.
Commodification of Land.
western education system.
Punitive justice system.
Military Industrial Complex.
Labor Exploitation.
subtopics:
Mainstream western science
Assimilation and western education
Indigenous Diplomacy
Land-based knowledge
Mass Food production
Private property and other land tenures
Urban cities
Mass production systems.
Diana and Devora, after paddling a non-motorized canoe, resting in a rocky edge enjoying the view of Portage Glacier eating smoked salmon bellies .
