“To dream it is to ride the ruin”: Meditations on Anti-Racism

This conversation and later interventions occurred in late 2020 and early 2021. Ashok Mathur, Cecily Nicholson, and Aruna Srivastava discuss the politics, limits and possibilities of anti-racism a racism in recent months, particularly in educational and community contexts. We weave our histories and experiences working within anti-racism and cultural communities over many years, reflecting on generational change, COVID, privilege, alliance and the potential of creative practice.

Thinking Otherwise: Speculative Imagining in PfC

<p>In the face of looming ecological catastrophe, ever-expanding neoliberalism and the ongoing integration of our lives into virtual spaces, there is an urgent need to expand people’s political imagination and responsiveness to these challenges. Engaging with philosophy outside the academic sphere – for example, in school and community contexts – can contribute to addressing this political need. Using the example of Philosophy for Children (PfC), an international educational movement, this thesis explores the potential for cross-paradigmatic approaches to philosophical inquiry. It observes that adherence to particular philosophical paradigms, as has largely been the case in PfC, binds the imagination to particular epistemic and political parameters and precludes ideas that contradict paradigmatic assumptions. Invoking the sensibility of Gillian Rose, I argue that we need a philosophy that permits people to imagine radically different political worlds in a manner that actively resists political ‘bubble-think’. This thesis illustrates how Rose’s cross-paradigmatic approach, speculative negotiation, can help to address some of the limits of paradigm thinking by inspiring a more transformative philosophy in contexts such as PfC. In doing so, this thesis contributes both to an expansion of the PfC programme and to questions surrounding the concrete practise of Rose’s rich theoretical oeuvre.</p>

Thinking Otherwise: Speculative Imagining in PfC

<p>In the face of looming ecological catastrophe, ever-expanding neoliberalism and the ongoing integration of our lives into virtual spaces, there is an urgent need to expand people’s political imagination and responsiveness to these challenges. Engaging with philosophy outside the academic sphere – for example, in school and community contexts – can contribute to addressing this political need. Using the example of Philosophy for Children (PfC), an international educational movement, this thesis explores the potential for cross-paradigmatic approaches to philosophical inquiry. It observes that adherence to particular philosophical paradigms, as has largely been the case in PfC, binds the imagination to particular epistemic and political parameters and precludes ideas that contradict paradigmatic assumptions. Invoking the sensibility of Gillian Rose, I argue that we need a philosophy that permits people to imagine radically different political worlds in a manner that actively resists political ‘bubble-think’. This thesis illustrates how Rose’s cross-paradigmatic approach, speculative negotiation, can help to address some of the limits of paradigm thinking by inspiring a more transformative philosophy in contexts such as PfC. In doing so, this thesis contributes both to an expansion of the PfC programme and to questions surrounding the concrete practise of Rose’s rich theoretical oeuvre.</p>

Community context modifies response of host-parasitoid interactions to phenological mismatch under warming

Climate change is altering the relative timing of species interactions by shifting when species appear in a community and by accelerating developmental rates. However, phenological shifts may be mediated through community contexts, such as intraspecific competition and alternative resource species, which can prolong the otherwise shortened windows of availability. Using a combination of laboratory experiments and dynamic simulations, we quantified how the effects of phenological shifts in Drosophila-parasitoid interactions differed with concurrent changes in temperature, intraspecific competition, and the presence of alternative host species. We found that community context, particularly the presence of alternative host species, supported interaction persistence across a wider range of phenological shifts than pairwise interactions. Parasitism rates declined under warming, which limited the ability of community contexts to manage mismatched interactions. These results demonstrate that ongoing declines in insect diversity may exacerbate the effects of phenological shifts in ecological communities under future global warming temperatures.

PRÁTICAS ARQUEOLÓGICAS EM COMUNIDADE: Experiências Participativas na Chapada Diamantina, no Âmbito do Projeto Circuitos Arqueológicos de Visitação

As práticas sociais desenvolvidas no âmbito do “Projeto Circuitos Arqueológicos de Visitação da Chapada Diamantina/Bahia” enquadram-se nos pressupostos da chamada Arqueologia Pública. Os resultados da vivência efetivada nos seis municípios chapadenses contemplados (Iraquara, Lençóis, Morro do Chapéu, Palmeiras, Seabra e Wagner), deixam transparecer a importância do compromisso social quando a prática arqueológica é desenvolvida em contextos comunitários, nesse caso, em localidades situadas próximas aos sítios de arte rupestre. Trata-se, por conseguinte, de uma reflexão sobre a natureza transformadora da Arqueologia através da interação social e troca de saberes. ARCHAEOLOGICAL PRACTICES IN THE COMMUNITY: Participative Experiences in the Diamantine Plate, in the Framework of the Archaeological Visitation Circuits ProjectABSTRACTThe social practices developed within the scope of the “Chapada Diamantina / Bahia Archaeological Visitation Project” fit the premises of the so-called Public Archeology. The results of the experience carried out in the six contemplated Chapada municipalities (Iraquara, Lençóis, Morro do Chapéu, Palmeiras, Seabra and Wagner), reveal the importance of social commitment when the archaeological practice is developed in community contexts, in this case, in locations located close by to rock art sites. It is, therefore, a reflection on the transformative nature of Archeology through social interaction and exchange of knowledge.Keywords: Archaeological circuits; Rock Arte; Community Archeology.