Tag: Reparative

Reparative Futures and Transformative Learning Spaces


Free Download Melanie Walker, "Reparative Futures and Transformative Learning Spaces"
English | ISBN: 3031458052 | 2023 | 302 pages | PDF | 6 MB
This edited book draws on an international cohort of authors, all working towards sustainable, decolonizing human development for more just futures in a variety of learning spaces. Integrating sustainable human development with ‘reparative futures’, the chapters present diverse examples of how transformative learning spaces can be created through different participatory methodologies and with different stakeholders. The book will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, practitioners and policymakers in the areas of higher education, development studies and transformative innovation.

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Reparative Aesthetics Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography


Free Download Susan Best, "Reparative Aesthetics: Witnessing in Contemporary Art Photography"
English | ISBN: 1472529782 | 2016 | 232 pages | AZW3 | 13 MB
By offering a new way of thinking about the role of politically engaged art, Susan Best opens up a new aesthetic field: reparative aesthetics. The book identifies an innovative aesthetic on the part of women photographers from the southern hemisphere, who against the dominant modes of criticality in political art, look at how cultural production can be reparative.

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Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds


Free Download Ben Almassi professor of philosophy Governors State University, "Reparative Environmental Justice in a World of Wounds"
English | ISBN: 1498592066 | 2020 | 186 pages | EPUB | 722 KB
"One of the penalties of an ecological education," wrote Aldo Leopold," is that one lives alone in a world of wounds." Ideally we would not do each other or the rest of our biotic community wrong, but we have, and still do. We need non-ideal environmental ethics for living together in this world of wounds. Ethics does not stop after wrongdoing: the aftermath of environmental harm demands ethical action. How we work to repair healthy relationality matters as much as the wounds themselves.

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