Working in the area of sustainable community planning, I have sought models by which we can start with a politics of disengagement, with communities that exist in defiance of state and market, and begin to envision the infinite space of alternative futures (reengagement). I find communities to exist. I find them in mountain peoples who seek only ways to preserve their heritage and exist in contempt of that which encircles them. But I also find these in the visions of mystics and poets: communities radical, absolute, and trenchant. The future as seen from the perch of exclusion: it is from these terrifying heights, from the eastern, from the monastic, that we begin to glimpse the alternative.
Learning Objectives: 1) To imagine a future organization of society from the perspective of marginalized communities 2) To analyze environmental justice questions from the persepctive of eastern mystics
Keywords: Environmental Justice, Developing Countries
Presenting author's disclosure statement:
Organization/institution whose products or services will be discussed: None
I do not have any significant financial interest/arrangement or affiliation with any organization/institution whose products or services are being discussed in this session.