- Friday 2 October
In a time marked by crisis, inequality and ecological breakdown, where do we find hope? And what does it take to build futures rooted in care, justice and collective liberation? In this lecture, Vasna Ramasar explores practices of worldmaking through social movements and communities across the globe that are already engaged in repair and regeneration. From degrowth practices to radical democracy across both majority and minority worlds. She argues that hope emerges through the everyday work of building different worlds, even in the face of violence and destructive hegemonies.
Born and raised in South Africa, Vasna learnt important lessons of freedoms, people’s roles as part of nature and about inequality. This background is now the basis of her academic and activist work. She draws on decolonial and feminist perspectives in the examination of the complex interactions between people and planet and to support building just and care-ful futures.
In practice, she is a scholar-activist based at Lund University, Sweden as an Associate Professor of Human Ecology. Vasna is the co-founder of the Global Tapestry of Alternatives which weaves grassroots radical alternatives from around the world; a founder of the Collective Against Environmental Racism in Denmark and part of several environmental and social movements including the Post Extractive Futures collective. She is also the Director of the Masters programme in Culture, Power and Sustainability.
Participants
- Vasna Ramasar, Associate Professor at Human Ecology, Department of Human Geography, Lunds University
Language: English
The session is presented by Roskilde University og Lund University