Social Movement Appreciation Project
In our rapidly destabilising world, it's clear that nothing will get better without large numbers of people working together. But social movements remain mysterious and under-studied creatures: the Social Movement Appreciation Project aims to shine a warm and loving light on today's many efforts at collective agency and system transformation.
Social Movement Appreciation Project
Hospicing Modernity and Transformative Adaptation
Coming from a teepee in a mysterious village at the heart of Green Gathering, Paul Mather tells us the story behind this congregation of yurts and ideas: a combination of climate collapse and countercultural experimentation.
But the ‘Transformative Adaptation Space’ is only one part of Paul’s story – he’s also part of the Hospicing Modernity UK Collective (and is also a school teacher!). Inspired by Vanessa Machado de Oliveira’s book from which they drew their name, the Collective came together in 2022 to explore and practice decoloniality. Paul gives us a taste of what this work can look like.
Editor’s note: there is music in the background throughout most of this recording. This is a bit annoying but also feels like an authentic snapshot of Green Gathering, where radical thought sits side by side with festival culture.
End music: May the Long Time Sun, sung by Penny Stone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97WDKsph2nI
Check out Penny's work! http://www.singlouderthanguns.com/
For more decoloniality, check out Gesturing Towards Decolonial Futures at https://decolonialfutures.net/
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