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Toward Systemic Emancipatory Transformations
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Course: Beyond Development – Multidimensional Alternatives to a System that Kills Us

Curriculum

  • 11 Sections
  • 58 Lessons
  • 10 Weeks
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  • Section 1: Welcome and how the course works
    This course is structured around 10 sections covering different aspects of systemic alternatives. Its objective is to make visible what today´s dominant narratives normally hide: that there is a whole world of incredibly rich transformative processes going on in all regions of our planet, both regarding alternative paradigms as well as transformative practices. Only through a deliberate exercise of declaring them irrelevant, or only local, or primitive, or maybe not scalable, have we learned to look the other way. In order to challenge this, the course has the objective to highlight alternatives already underway.
    3
    • 1.1
      Module 1: Welcome Video
    • 1.2
      Module 2: Contents of the Course
    • 1.3
      Module 3: How to Navigate this Course
  • Section 2: Debates on development
    6
    • 2.1
      Module 1: The Problems with Development
    • 2.2
      Module 2: Encountering Development
    • 2.3
      Module 3: Development and Alternatives?
    • 2.4
      Module 4: Problems with Development in India
    • 2.5
      Quiz: Section 2
      5 Questions
    • 2.6
      Additional materials
  • Section 3: Multidimensional, systemic alternatives
    Miriam Lang
    8
    • 3.1
      Module 1: Introduction to section 3
    • 3.2
      Module 2: A systemic, multidimensional and civilizational crisis
    • 3.3
      Module 3: Possible Dimensions of Alternatives Beyond Development
    • 3.4
      Module 4: Assessing alternative dimensions
    • 3.5
      Module 5: Case Study 1
    • 3.6
      Module 6: Case Study 2
    • 3.7
      Quiz: Section 3
      5 Questions
    • 3.8
      Additional materials
  • Section 4: Indigenous Ontologies of Buen Vivir or Sumak Kawsay - Miriam
    7
    • 4.1
      Module 1 – Introduction and overview
    • 4.2
      Module 2 – Latin American debates in the early 2000s
    • 4.3
      Module 3 – Amazonian perspectives on the Living Forest
    • 4.4
      Module 4 – Buen vivir and the State
    • 4.5
      Module 5 – Buen vivir from the perspective of a guaraní woman (Bolivia)
    • 4.6
      Quiz: Section 4
      5 Questions
    • 4.7
      Additional materials
  • Section 5: Struggles for environmental justice and alternatives to development in Africa
    8
    • 5.1
      Module 1 – Introduction
    • 5.2
      Module 2 – Pan-African Alternatives to Development
    • 5.3
      Module 3 – Women’s roles and visions in African ecosocial struggles
    • 5.4
      Module 4 – Ecofeminist Perspectives from Africa
    • 5.5
      Module 5 – Ubuntu: an alternative paradigm from Africa
    • 5.6
      Module 6 – Ecosocialism and ecocentric perspectives from Africa
    • 5.7
      Quiz: Section 5
      5 Questions
    • 5.8
      Additional materials
  • Section 6: Grassroots and Gandhian perspectives on alternatives: Eco-Swaraj
    6
    • 6.1
      Module 1: Introduction
    • 6.2
      Module 2: Alternatives to development from an Indian perspective: Experiences
    • 6.3
      Module 3: Alternatives to Development from an Indian Perspective: Alternative frameworks and principles
    • 6.4
      Module 4: The Flower of Transformation
    • 6.5
      Quiz: Section 6
      5 Questions
    • 6.6
      Additional materials
  • Section 7: Feminist economics and care
    7
    • 7.1
      Module 1: The marginalization of women in patriarchal capitalism
    • 7.2
      Module 2: Anti-colonial and intersectional feminisms
    • 7.3
      Module 3: Centring care
    • 7.4
      Module 4: Ecofeminism
    • 7.5
      Module 5: Towards feminist recovery plans for COVID-19 and beyond
    • 7.6
      Quiz: Section 7
      5 Questions
    • 7.7
      Additional materials
  • Section 8: The Commons
    9
    • 8.1
      Module 1 – Introduction
    • 8.2
      Module 2 – Elinor Ostrom’s understanding of common pool resources
    • 8.3
      Module 3 – Commoning as an anti-capitalist strategy
    • 8.4
      Module 4 – Producing the Common and Reproducing Life
    • 8.5
      Module 5 – State power and commoning: transcending a problematic relationship
    • 8.6
      Module 6 – Cecosesola: an amazing example of commoning
    • 8.7
      Module 7 – Urban commons
    • 8.8
      Quiz: Section 8
      5 Questions
    • 8.9
      Additional materials
  • Section 9: Degrowth
    6
    • 9.1
      Module 1 – what is degrowth?
    • 9.2
      Module 2: Degrowth pathways: Imagining a society not centered on growth
    • 9.3
      Module 3: Technologies for Degrowth
    • 9.4
      Module 4: Degrowth and the Global South
    • 9.5
      Quiz: Section 9
      5 Questions
    • 9.6
      Additional materials
  • Section 10: From development to reparations. Towards a globally just world order
    5
    • 10.1
      Module 1: Looking back on the New International Economic Order
    • 10.2
      Module 2: Debt Cancellation
    • 10.3
      Module 3: Reparations
    • 10.4
      Quiz: Section 10
      5 Questions
    • 10.5
      Additional materials
  • Reflections
    2
    • 11.1
      Course Recap
    • 11.2
      Feedback
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Gatherings

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