$ Re-enchanting Ecological Praxis (Iliff School of Theology)
August 12 All day
August 12 – September 2
This course takes as its central concession the basic insight that “people organize to protect and fight for what they hold most dear.” In order to most effectively address the ecological crisis, we must begin to ask deeper questions: “What are we willing to fight for?” Such a question demands we explore our most sacred values and then enact them in a praxis of environmental justice. This interdisciplinary course seeks to move our understanding of ecological praxis from one of activism and mobilization to one of value-based organizing for real power.
In addition to developing basic organizing skills and personally engaging some of the experts from their weekly reading in an online forum, this course will call us to critically understand our most cherished ideals as they are expressed in the eco-stories we tell in our various communities. By doing so we can ask, and perhaps answer, the big question regarding our eco-justice work: how do we collectively meet the seeming hopelessness of the ecological crisis with integrity, decency, and effective strategy?
$200
