Abstract
Urgent steps are needed to slow and cease ecologically, culturally and socially destructive systems and redistribute power to those with place-based knowledge and sensitivity to contextual conditions. Place-Based Responsibility enacts this practice by coalescing knowledge holders with long histories of participation in this work – those living and working in ways that express care for place. Together, we ask what are our responsibilities, reciprocities and commitments to land? How can we as individuals and as collectives take up the responsibility of contributing to the places where we are? Within Emily Carr University, a group of faculty, students, and community members have begun to enact these guiding questions as a series of public roundtable discussions, a place-based collective of graduate students, and an undergraduate course “Practicing Neighbourly Responsibility.” This paper reflects on these actions, and imagines future iterations of this work.
Keywords
place-based; sustainability; pluriversal; community-based; relationality
DOI
https://doi.org/10.21606/pluriversal.2021.0012
Citation
Chisholm, J.,and Kozak, L.(2021) Practicing Place-based Responsibility, in Leitão, R.M., Men, I., Noel, L-A., Lima, J., Meninato, T. (eds.), Pivot 2021: Dismantling/Reassembling, 22-23 July, Toronto, Canada. https://doi.org/10.21606/pluriversal.2021.0012
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Practicing Place-based Responsibility
Urgent steps are needed to slow and cease ecologically, culturally and socially destructive systems and redistribute power to those with place-based knowledge and sensitivity to contextual conditions. Place-Based Responsibility enacts this practice by coalescing knowledge holders with long histories of participation in this work – those living and working in ways that express care for place. Together, we ask what are our responsibilities, reciprocities and commitments to land? How can we as individuals and as collectives take up the responsibility of contributing to the places where we are? Within Emily Carr University, a group of faculty, students, and community members have begun to enact these guiding questions as a series of public roundtable discussions, a place-based collective of graduate students, and an undergraduate course “Practicing Neighbourly Responsibility.” This paper reflects on these actions, and imagines future iterations of this work.