PhD researcher on regenerative activism at IDS - University of Sussex, human rights expert, independent consultant and board member.
Regenerate, how? In my research for more regenerative NGO and donor experiments and practices, I came across various other concepts and perspectives. Emergence, transformation, imagination, decoloniality, ancestral (and indigenous) practices,... With particularities, they all have in common the questioning of the current (post-)colonial, capitalist and patriarchal system. They also agree that there is no ‘single recipe’ or ‘manual’ for how to do (and be) different - manuals and recipes come precisely from the way of being they seek to combat. We are in an ‘interregnum’ or ‘sociotone’ as May East puts it, living between two or more worlds, not in a vacuum, but with various antagonistic forces. We need to experiment-erro-experiment and live within uncertainty, its tensions and paradoxes. I highly recommend the podcast below, in which Vanessa Andreotti provides context, concepts and theoretical frameworks that can help us on this journey: https://lnkd.in/dMhDVMGR
