The Drawing Room
What We’re Reading
A Post-Development Dictionary, Edited by Ashish Kothari, Ariel Salleh, Arturo Escobar, Federico Demaria, Alberto Acosta
All About Love, bell hooks
An Eco-topian Lexicon, Matthew Schneider-Mayerson and Brent Ryan Bellamy, Editors
Children of the Days, Eduardo Galeano
Entangled Life - How Fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures, Merlin Sheldrake
Finding Our Way, Margaret Wheatley
La Tyrannie de la réalité, Mona Chollet
Learning from the Germans, Confronting Race and the Memory of Evil, Susan Neiman
Le Livre des Symboles, The Archive for Research and Archetypal Symbolism, Taschen
I Work Like a Gardener, Joan Miró
My Seditious Heart, Collected Nonfiction, Arundhati Roy
On Connection, Kae Tempest
On the Concept of History, Walter Benjamin
One-way Street and Other Writings, Walter Benjamin
Saving Beauty, Byung-Chul Han
Sensuous Knowledge, A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, Minna Salami
Sacred Instructions, Indigenous Wisdom for Living Spirit Based Change, Sherri Mitchell, Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset (She Who Brings the Light).
Sister Outsider, Audre Lorde
The Body Keeps the Score, Mind and Body in the Transformation of Trauma, Bessel Van der Kolk
The Burnout Society, Byung-Chul Han
The Human Condition, Hannah Arendt
the sun and her flowers, rupi kaur
Trauma Stewardship, an Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others, Laura van Dernoot Lipsky
Walden and Civil Disobedience, Henry David Thoreau
Wanderlust, Rebecca Solnit
Zen and the Art of Saving the Planet, Thich Nhat Hahn
From Harsha Walia
Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism, Harsha Walia
Undoing Border Imperialism, Harsha Walia
From Kerry Whigham
‘Remembering to Prevent: The Preventive Capacity of Public Memory,’ Kerry E. Whigham, Columbia University, Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal: Vol. 11: Iss. 2: 53-71. Available at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/gsp/vol11/iss2/7
Resonant Violence: Affect, Memory, and Activism in Post-Genocide Societies, Kerry E. Whigham (Rutgers University Press).
¡Presente! The Politics of Presence by Diana Taylor State Repression and the Labors of Memory by Elizabeth Jelin
Beloved, Toni Morrison
From Irene Caselli
The Magic Doll, Adrienne Yabouza and illustrated by Élodie Nouhen
Julián is a Mermaid, Jessica Love
Tomorrow, Nadine Kaadan
Magazines
Emergence Magazine, believes in sharing stories that have the potential to shift ways of thinking and being in our relationship to the living world. https://emergencemagazine.org/
New Philosopher, a magazine for curious people interested in the fundamental issues facing humankind. https://www.newphilosopher.com/
Where the Leaves Fall, Exploring humankind’s connection with nature.
https://wheretheleavesfall.com/
What We’re Listening To
Power, People & Planet with Kumi Naidoo: a podcast about how we fix the world,
from the Green Economy Coalition.
https://www.powerpeopleplanet.org/
OnBeing with Krista Tippett: a podcast exploring what it means to be human, how we want to live, and who will we be to each other?
The Way Out Is In: a podcast series mirroring Zen Master Thich Nhat Hahn’s deep teachings of Buddhist philosophy, a simple yet profound methodology for dealing with our suffering, and for creating more happiness and joy in our lives.
https://plumvillage.org/podcasts/the-way-out-is-in/
OnBeing with Krista Tippett: a podcast exploring what it means to be human, how we want to live, and who will we be to each other?
https://onbeing.org/series/podcast/
Where We Get Inspiration From
Eco-versities, a network of people, organisations and communities reclaiming knowledge systems and a cultural imaginary to restore and re-envision more relevant learning to the challenges of our times.
Rejuvenate, a project that recognises the value that children and young people can bring when they are given the space and support to do so.
The New Institute, a mission-driven Institute of Advanced Study and a platform for change.
The Alternatives Project (TAP), an international and geographically diverse network of progressive academics, union members, civil society activists, and social movement participants concerned with building a global collective critical voice oriented towards education and societal transformation.
The Be More Pirate Movement, a group of autonomous rebels who are out to cause good trouble by standing up to the status quo.
The School of Life, an organisation built to help us find calm, self-understanding, resilience and connection - especially during troubled times.
https://www.theschooloflife.com/
The Global Tapestry of Alternatives seeks to build bridges between networks of Alternatives around the globe and promote the creation of new processes of confluence.
https://globaltapestryofalternatives.org/
The House of Beautiful Business aims to inspire and equip individuals and organisations to reinvent themselves, and to shape more humane futures for business and society.
It’s Nice That, championing creativity.
The Royal Society of the Arts is committed to a future that works for everyone. A future where we can all participate in its creation.
Futurium Museum, is a House of Futures, exploring how we want to live.
Versal Journal, community-centred publishing and curation.
https://www.versaljournal.org/news
Demos Helsinki, seeking societal transformation through social imagination to tackle global issues.