Lorraine B Smith
Breaking out of colonial patterns
Breaking out of colonial patterns
Possible Futures are a collection of people based in the global south who are providing support. content, coursework and guidance around what it really looks like to break out of colonial patterns, these broken narratives that serve the current sustainable development world that serve the current mainstream business and industry model. Step out of those and see what it looks like to end the harmful models the extractive oppressive One world kind of narrative that is a big part of what is causing the systems to bleed the way they are. What does it look like to see and to genuinely understand our shared histories, and then to reorient our way forward. This is not light hearted work but they are really amazing people doing awesome stuff that fills my heart with joy. I think what possible futures is doing is next level, they're saying unless we also truly address the structural norms that are perpetuating the harm, all the nice little case studies in the world will get crushed by the boot of reality over and over and over. So what does it look like to really step out of that?
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