Actors and Strategies for Change – Towards Global Sustainabilities (Archive 2018)

Follow up: The last Hooray

This is it, the end of ASC for this year (almost)! Thanks for being a good bunch of people to hang out with on Monday evenings, we hope you got as much out of this semester as we did.

Now, if you’ve missed the final session, we’re asking you to complete the course evaluation at home and send us a screenshot of the completion confirmation instead of a make up task.

Also don’t forget that next Sunday we have the final deadline for Assignment 1, Part 2, which will go the an external examiner for final grading. Since some people have asked about this: DO NOT WRITE IN THE SAME DOCUMENT AS PART 1!! The examiner will first read your part 1, then the feedback and then part 2. So it’s essential to keep this separate.

Any other make up tasks you might still have open are due on the same day if you need to get your grade before the summer. If you have any questions regarding that or other issues, just pop us an email.

Other than that we wish you all the best for you futures, take good care of yourself and each other and then hopefully we’ll see you all around again some time, some place. :)

Best,
Guy and Friedi

Follow up: Actors in Action Roleplay

Great job ASCers, an evening filled with insightful discussion about some very interesting topics.

We look forward to seeing you all at the Sustainability Festival. We are at Engelsla Parken in room 2-0076 (should be on the ground floor of Hus 2). We will be there from 13:15-16:15. As per the assignment instructions we will be analysing the discussions.

“Your peer group will be in charge of showing 2-4 different key points in the video (note down the timings of the excerpts) and presenting your analysis on why those were important points in the discussion, engaging with the role play group, the whole class and other attendees. The point here is to critically analyse the roleplay and showcase how often small statements can lead to a discussion taking a different turn, playing ‘what if’. Each peer group will have 20 minutes for this part, out of which only a third (maximum) should be devoted to screening the particular parts of the roleplay.”

If you can’t come, send us and your group an email with 200-300 words to use for discussion BEFORE Friday.

Remember the discussion that you’re supposed to review. You can find your videos here:

Black Lives Matter will review Cobalt Mine (Part 1 / Part 2)
Cobalt Mine will review Ende Gelände (Part 1 / Part 2)
Ende Gelände will review Fisheries Overexploitation (Part 1 / Part 2)
Fisheries Overexploitation will review Gender Pay Gap (Part 1 / Part 2)
Gender Pay Gap will review Gun Control (Part 1 / Part 2)
Gun Control will review Monsanto (Part 1 / Part 2)
Monsanto will review Tabajos River Basin (Part 1 / Part 2)
Tabajos River Basin will review Black Lives Matter (Part 1 / Part 2)

Don’t worry, the videos are unlisted so they should only be available to people with the link.

On Monday, there will be the course finale and evaluation – bring computer or smartphone for this. After the course finale there will be a celebratory BBQ at CEMUS if the weather permits (BYOB/F). If the weather is crap, we can go to a nation instead!

See you at the festival!

Best,

Guy and Friedi

Follow up: Pelle Strindlund

Hej ASCers,

Here are some links to some of the things that Pelle mentioned in this week’s class.

The Sexual Politics of Meat by Carol Adams

L214 releasing footage of slaughterhouse procedures causes a stir in France.

See you next week at Kollabatoriet.

Best,

Guy and Friedi

Follow up: Heidi Moksnes

Hej ASCers,

Here is some more information about the World Social Forum that Heidi touched upon in this week’s class.

Next week we have Pelle Strindlund visiting us. He will be our last guest speaker of the course so make sure you don’t miss out.

Don’t forget the deadline for the group assignment is on this Sunday.

Best,

Guy and Friedi

Follow up: Karl Andreasson

Hej ASCers,

Here you can find some further information on some of the discussion points from this week’s class with Karl.

• TED Talk on “The secret to effective nonviolent resistance”
• Celebs standing with Standing Rock Tribe
• The Spectrum of Allies & Pillars of Support
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Remember to team up with your groups for the 2nd assignment. Instructions can be found above in this page.

Next we have Karl-Henrik Robért that will talk to us about Ethical Frameworks – Interdisciplinary Tools for Systemic Change.

Best, Guy and Friedi

Follow up: Annika Skoglund

Hej ASCers,

Here you can find some further information on some of the discussion points from this week’s class with Annika.

• The Conversation – in-depth analysis from academics and researchers
• Article – Rethinking Prefiguration: Alternatives, Micropolitics and Goals in Social Movements
• Marxism – The Philosophy of Praxis

Remember the deadline for individual assignment 1 is this coming Sunday (15/04/18)

See you next week when we’ll be welcoming Karl Andreasson to class!

Best,

Guy & Friedi

Peer Review Week

hope you’re all enjoying the late Easter holidays! And good job by most of you handing in fairly complete assignments already! We hope the peer review process is going well and in full swing. Again, just a reminder (full outline below), you’re all required to take part in the peer review process, so if you have not submitted a draft and/or are not reviewing TWO peer papers, there will be a make up task. So if you have not received two assignments, let us know ASAP so we can supply you with a substitute (especially if you can’t reach your peer by yourself). In your feedback, really try to be as constructive with each other as possible, always while commenting on the text, not the author. Upload reviews by Friday and send to your peers. If anything is unclear: get in touch with us!

Next Monday we will continue the lecture series with Annika Skoglund, talking about activism in the workplace. All readings are up and Padlets good to go, so make sure to get in your questions in by Friday. Also by Friday it’s your last chance to sign up for a group for the next assignment (on SP)! They are filling up quickly, so make sure to do it sooner rather than later.

Best,
Guy and Friedi

Follow up: Literature Seminar

Hej ASCers,

Here are the photos of your discussion notes from the class:

hope you enjoyed the literature seminar today! In case you’ve missed it, instructions for the make up task can be found above. Since we’re not going to see each other next week, some reminders about upcoming assignments (it can all be found under the assignments instructions tab above, so make sure to read through documents carefully – they’re neatly done *wink*):

• The draft deadline is on Sunday, April 1st. Find peer reviewers and contact information in the document above under ‘Assignment Instructions’. Email to peer reviewers AND upload on SP. Even if you don’t have 1200 words, try to hand in a rough outline at least so there isn’t too much chaos allocating new peer reviewers.
• You all are required to give feedback to two peers by Friday, April 6th. If you have not received two assignments by Monday, contact us and let us know whose assignment you’re missing and we’ll send you another one. Send feedback back to the author AND upload on SP. You then have until Sunday, April 15th to finalise your assignment and upload it on SP (plagiarism checked).
• There are notes on how to give feedback in the assignment instructions, so make sure to follow that. You should take both formal requirements into account, as well as comments on the text and how it can be improvement. Constructive feedback is key!
• For the upcoming group assignment Actors in Action you’ll be working in groups of six on a specific scenario. These scenarios are briefly outlined at the end of the instructions (file also uploaded above). By Friday, April 6th, sign up to the scenario of your choice on Studentportalen. First-come-first-serve basis.

We’ll meet again on April 9th, with Annika Skoglund talking about activism in the workplace, so make sure to get your Padlet contributions in as usual again. Until then, happy Easter!

Best,
Guy and Friedi