References and Inspiration
“Letter from a Birmingham Jail [King, Jr.]” Martin Luther King, Jr., 16 April 1963, online
“Deflating the Ruling Elite through Civil Disobedience,” with Chris Hedges, on For the Wild Podcast.
“Civil Disobedience,” Henry David Thoreau, 1849
Reflections on Civil Disobedience, Hannah Arendt, September 4, 1970, The New Yorker
The Transmission of the Revolutionary Spirit: Reflections on Civil Disobedience
in Hannah Arendt, Stefania Fantauzzi, University of Barcelona, Online
Useful resources to inspire disobedience
Creative Civil Disobedience, Vandana Shiva
The Seeds of Vandana Shiva, Documentary Film, 2021, Documentary Film https://vandanashivamovie.com/
Stand with Standing Rock: https://standwithstandingrock.net/
The Revolution Will Not Be Funded. Beyond the Non-profit industrial complex.” Edited by INCITE! Women of colour against violence.
Tools for Civil Disobedience, Beautiful Trouble, https://www.beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/#/tool/civil-disobedience
Fridays for Future – Take Action: https://fridaysforfuture.org/take-action/
Be More Pirate – join the network: https://www.bemorepirate.com/
Note: this is just a snapshot, if you’d like us to add further resources to this list, do share them with us.
Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
The Uncertainty Experts, Sam Conniff and team: https://uncertaintyexperts.com/
“The climate crisis is a governance crisis,” by Juha Leppänen, Demos Helsinki
Forum for Social Innovation Sweden, Social Innovation Foresight #1, with Johanna Koljonen, Roope Mokka, Cassie Robinson and Geoff Mulgan.
A General Theory of Possibility: The Abstract Art of Otherwise and the Physics of Resilience, The Marginalian, Maria Popova
World Uncertainty Index, https://worlduncertaintyindex.com/
Collective Intelligence Design Playbook, Nesta. https://www.nesta.org.uk/toolkit/collective-intelligence-design-playbook/
“Disrupting adultism in the climate change conversation,” Rejuvenate
“Pourquoi la COP26 sera un échec,” Jean-Claude Vignoli, personal blog
“Glasgow’s 2030 credibility gap: net zero’s lip service to climate action,” Climate Action Tracker.
“From Hero to Host,” Interview and other writings by Margaret Wheatley available on her website.
“La morale de Sartre . Une reconstruction,” Gerhard Seel, Le Portique, revue de philosophie et sciences humaines, https://journals.openedition.org/leportique/737
“Why we contradict ourselves and confound others,” Daniel Kahneman in the On Being podcast.
“Nothing tastes as good as feminist accountability feels,” Leila Billing, online
We are Feminist Leaders, https://www.wearefeministleaders.com/
La Passagère du silence, Fabienne Verdier, Livre de Poche, and her website: https://fabienneverdier.com/
“Anthropology and the study of contradictions,” Edited by David B, Université Libre de
Bruxelles. Available online.
“The Conscience of Words,” from At the Same Time, Essays and Speeches by Susan Sontag, Picador.
“Perception and the Power of the Critical Imagination: Alfred Kazin on Embracing Contradiction and How the Sacredness of Human Attention Shapes Our Reality,” Maria Popova in Brainpickings.
‘Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest,’ Vandana Shiva, Yes! Magazine
“Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon,” Nature Magazine, April 2019
‘Why Green Pledges Will Not Create the Natural Forests We Need,’ Yale School of the Environment.
The Nation of Plants, A radical manifesto for humans, Stefano Mancuso
Forest and tree symbolism in folklore, J. Crews
Interview with Amitav Ghosh: The Crisis of Imagination, De Balie
The Rights Studio Festival, Living Objects, a digital forest exhibition exploring the connections between technology and climate change, and the lessons we can learn from the oldest storytellers in our world – trees.
UNESCO World Heritage Forests https://whc.unesco.org/en/review/61
Entangled Life: How Fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures, Merlin Sheldrake
Trees are wired for wisdom, On Being podcast with Forest Ecologist, Suzanne Simard
The Hidden Life of Trees : What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World, Peter Wohlleben
The Romance of the Trees, Pleasure Garden, October 2018
The (Lost) Art of Conversation
Becoming Wise: An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living, Krista Tippett
Holding Oneself Open in a Conversation, Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Ethics of Dialogue, Scherto Gill, available on Researchgate
To Speak or not to Speak, Edition 13, Thursday Thoughts, Obenewa Amponsah
Thich Nhat Hanh on the Art of Deep Listening and the 3 Buddhist Steps to Repairing a Relationship, Brainpickings by Maria Popova
The art of conversation, John Armstrong, The Conversation
Rene Magritte, ‘The Art of Conversation’
‘Why conversations are often boring,’ The School of Life
‘The Art of Conversation: Timeless, Timely Do’s and Don’ts from 1866,’ Project Gutenberg
Wanderlust, A History of Walking, Rebecca Solnit
A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit
Walking, H. D. Thoreau, published in the Atlantic
Bashō and the Aesthetics of Wandering: Recuperating Space, Recognizing Place, and Following the Ways of the Universe, Thomas Heyd, available online
Songline, Common Ground, https://www.commonground.org.au/learn/songlines
The Poetry Foundation, Matsuo Basho, https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/basho
Manish Jain http://www.shikshantar.org/author/manish-jain
Manish Jain in conversation with Rob Hopkins, “Our work is to recover wisdom and imagination”
Radical Unlearning, Anjali Nath Upadhyay on For the Wild podcast
“The Problem with learning is unlearning”, Mark Bonchek, Harvard Business Review
Sensuous Knowledge, A Black Feminist Approach for Everyone, by Minna Salami
Consolation; The solace, Nourishment and Underlying Meaning of Everyday Words, David Whyte
Becoming Wise, An Inquiry into the Mystery and Art of Living, Krista Tippett
Beautiful Trouble, https://solidarity.beautifultrouble.org/
On the necessity of beauty, Bronte Velez, For the Wild Podacst
On William Morris, The Collector, and The Art Story
Art, Sexuality and Queer Culture, a history of LGBT+ artists, The Boar, University of Warwick
The Birth of Black is Beautiful Movement, BBC
‘Everything I Need to Know I Learned in the Forest,’ Vandana Shiva, Yes! Magazine
‘Restoring natural forests is the best way to remove atmospheric carbon,’ Nature Magazine, April 2019
‘Why Green Pledges Will Not Create the Natural Forests We Need,’ Yale School of the Environment.
The Nation of Plants, A radical manifesto for Humans, Stefano Mancuso
Forest and tree symbolism in folklore, J. Crews
Interview with Amitav Ghosh: The Crisis of Imagination, De Balie
The Rights Studio Festival, Living Objects, a digital forest exhibition exploring the connections between technology and climate change, and the lessons we can learn from the oldest storytellers in our world – trees.
UNESCO World Heritage Forests https://whc.unesco.org/en/review/61
Further inspiration
Entangled Life: How Fungi make our worlds, change our minds, and shape our futures, Merlin Sheldrake
Trees are wired for wisdom, On Being podcast with Forest Ecologist, Suzanne Simard
The Hidden Life of Trees : What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World, Peter Wohlleben
The Romance of the Trees, Pleasure Garden, October 2018