Tenth South South Forum on Sustainability
THINKING NEW HORIZONS (7 – 30 July 2023)
We are living in catastrophic times. The crises we are facing are global in nature with regard to their effects as well as causes. To be living in times of crises certainly suggests that we are living on the edge and about to fall. Yet we are also at the edge, looking out to a beyond, with new horizons calling us to go beyond ourselves. It seems natural that crises always confront us with questions of survival, i.e., how to preserve the status quo, so that “the selected” can survive at the expense of those who must be sacrificed. The “selected” may drown themselves in self-congratulation, watching others rotting away in their brokenness; they are never “saviours” trying to solve the crises and rescue us from our plight. In fact, crises place before us not so much a question of survival, but rather a task of making progress possible, calling for a will to go beyond, breaking new paths. For that, some old habits may have to be cast away, making way for reconceptualization of conditions operating unconsciously. To break new paths suggests breaking away from seemingly natural, necessary and inevitable grounds. This means the obvious, the unquestioned and the taken-for-granted must be open to critical evaluation and reconceptualization.
In this Tenth South South Forum on Sustainability with the central theme “Thinking New Horizons”, we are going to honour several critical thoughts striving in this direction: eco-feminism; indigenous thoughts from Latin America; thinking generated from struggles in Africa and Asia; wisdoms from practices in rural regeneration and solidarity economy; and revival from cultural heritages of different modes of relating to one another and to nature other than capitalistic ones as the grounds for going beyond ourselves.
A special session to commemorate Samir Amin on the fifth anniversary of his departure will revisit the theory and practice of delinking.
Organizers:
Global University for Sustainability
Centre for Cultural Research and Development, Lingnan University
Co-organizers:
Asian Regional Exchange for New Alternatives
Graduate Program in Social Policy, Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Institute of Philosophy and Social Sciences, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Centre for Film Studies and Cultural Studies, Peking University
Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Study in Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University
Institute for Rural Revitalization Strategy, Southwest University
Institute of Rural Revitalization, Fujian Agriculture and Forestry University
Green Ground Eco-Tech Centre (Beijing)
Universidad del Buen Vivir (University of Good Living)
Multitrueke Mixiuhca Exchange Community, Mexico
Society for International Development, Italy
Daraja Press, Canada
Lingnan Gardeners
Language:
Simultaneous interpreting in English and Putonghua for all sessions except July 17-19 (Putonghua only);
simultaneous interpreting in Spanish for July 7, 8, 9, 22, 23, 30;
simultaneous interpreting in Portuguese for July 12, 13, and 23;
simultaneous interpreting in Korean and Japanese for July 14-15.
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Organizers and Coorganizers
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