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...and apparently without having read a single word of what we wrote. We should call them on it. But we should bear in mind ---as we ARE reading what THEY write--- that they intend to be on our side. Let's not be blind to it just because they were. Need all the friends we can get. Chandler On 2018-09-03 11:53 AM, Sigrid Schmalzer wrote: > > Good grief. That's really frustrating. They were obviously looking for > a strawman and picked us. > > > On 09/03/2018 10:25 AM, Claudia Pine wrote: >> I'm excited by this new book. NOT excited by its clear >> misunderstanding of SftP -- see p. xxx, Introduction. Read it and >> comment, please. >> >> Claudia >> >> *From:* 'Michel PIMBERT' via Radical Ecological Democracy < >> [log in to unmask] >> <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> >> *Sent:* Sunday, September 2, 2018 3:32 AM >> *To:* red listserve >> *Subject:* [REDlistserve] Multimedia book on peoples knowledge >> transforming >> food systems >> >> Dear all >> >> This multimedia e- book may be of interest to you and your networks: >> *EVERYDAY >> EXPERTS: HOW PEOPLE'S KNOWLEDGE CAN TRANSFORM THE FOOD SYSTEM* >> >> *Everyday Experts* explains how knowledge built up through first-hand >> experience can help solve the crisis in the food system. It brings >> together >> fifty-seven activists, farmers, practitioners, researchers and community >> organisers from around the world in 28 original chapters to take a >> critical >> look at attempts to improve the dialogue between people whose >> knowledge has >> been marginalised in the past and others who are recognised as >> professional >> experts. >> >> Using a combination of stories, poems, photos and videos, the >> contributors >> demonstrate how people’s knowledge can transform the food system towards >> greater social and environmental justice. Many of the chapters also >> explore >> the challenges of using action and participatory approaches to research. >> >> The chapters share new insights, analysis and stories that can expand our >> imagination of a future that encompasses: >> >> - making dialogue among people with different ways of understanding the >> world central to all decision-making >> - the re-affirmation of Indigenous, local, traditional and other >> knowledge systems >> - a blurring of the divide between professional expertise and expertise >> that is derived from experience >> - transformed relationships amongst ourselves and with the Earth to >> confront inequality and the environmental crisis >> >> Free download from: >> https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/agroecology-water-resilience/our-publications/everyday-experts-how-peoples-knowledge-can-transform-the-food-system/ >> >> Everyday Experts: How people's knowledge can trans... >> <https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/areas-of-research/agroecology-water-resilience/our-publications/everyday-experts-how-peoples-knowledge-can-transform-the-food-system/> >> www.coventry.ac.uk <http://www.coventry.ac.uk/> >> Working at Coventry University. Coventry University is a diverse and >> exciting place to work and we share the enthusiasm of our staff and >> students to be the best at whatever they choose to do. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Michel >> >> Professor Michel Pimbert >> Professor of Agroecology and Food Politics >> and Director >> Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience (CAWR) >> Coventry University >> Ryton Gardens, Wolston Lane >> Coventry, CV8 3LG >> United Kingdom >> >> E-mail: [log in to unmask] >> <mailto:[log in to unmask]> >> Tel: +44 (0)2477651607 >> Mobile: +44 (0) 7557425256 >> >> >> -- >> Justice will not be served untilthose who are unaffected are as >> outraged as those who are >> <http://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/opa/press-releases/attachments/2015/03/04/ferguson_police_department_report.pdf>. >> ― Benjamin Franklin >> >> The day is coming when a single carrot, freshly observed, will set >> off a revolution. -- Paul Cezanne >> >> Nihil de nobis, sine nobis: Nothing about us, without us! >> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nothing_About_Us_Without_Us> > > -- > Sigrid Schmalzer > Professor, History Department > University of Massachusetts Amherst > Website: http://sigridschmalzer.org > > Proud member of the Massachusetts Society of Professors (MSP/MTA/NEA), > the union representing faculty and librarians at UMass Amherst, and > supporting public education and labor movements everywhere: > umassmsp.org <http:umassmsp.org> > > /Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist > China/ > <http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/R/bo22541357.html> > (University of Chicago Press, 2016) > > /Science for the People: Documents from America's Movement of Radical > Scientists/ <https://www.umass.edu/umpress/title/science-people> > (University of Massachusetts Press, 2018) > > /Moth and Wasp, Soil and Ocean: Remembering Chinese Scientist Pu > Zhelong's Work for Sustainable Farming/ > <https://tilburyhouse.com/book/education-and-teaching/by-subject/multicultural/moth-and-wasp-soil-and-ocean/> > (Tilbury House, 2018) -- picture book >