Spirited practice of transformative education for sustainability

Neilson, Alison Laurie; Blomberg, Doug; Gabriel, Rosalina

doi:10.3920/978-90-8686-757-8_17

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“…Working and living on small islands where we regularly encounter people as concurrently research participants, co-presenters on panels about fishing issues, and neighbours, and where we see each other at community events, in the same markets or on the same buses, it is difficult for us to be oblivious to their social and emotional realities of disappearance: an image, or memory only of the past (Symes, Phillipson & Salmi, 2015). Similarly, we believe that important spiritual values of the Azoreans, and the fishing communities in particular, are overlooked in education (Neilson, Blomberg & Gabriel, 2012) and within fisheries governance (Song, Chuenpagdee & Jentoft, 2013).…”

Section: Participation Of the Holy Spirit: Sharingmentioning

confidence: 97%

Civil participation between private and public spheres: the island sphere and fishing communities in the Azores archipelago.

Neilson¹,

Marcos²

2016

ISJ

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This paper discusses civic participation with reference to fishing communities in the Azores archipelago, Portugal. We explore how concepts and political processes actively exclude people, and how researchers could dig deeper to find opportunities to build from diverse cultural practices of participation. Specifically, we describe examples of efforts towards participatory sustainable development as well as introduce a centuries-old highly participatory practice of sharing food. The rituals of the Cult of the Holy Spirit, based on sharing and justice, are an example of strong civic engagement rich with possibility from which to build alternatives to current forms of participation for fisheries governance. We suggest that islands offer understandings of human social interactions in ways that larger landmasses might not. This is a call for reflection on images underlying our understandings of participation and governing the sea commons, and looking more closely at islanders and their long held practices.

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Section: Participation Of the Holy Spirit: Sharingmentioning

confidence: 97%