‘Complexity in Community Relationships’ – Khulumani leads Transdisciplinarity Seminar at Rhodes University – August 4, 2019September 19, 2014 by Khulumani Support Group </p> <div class="itemIntroText"> <p>The monthly Transdisciplinarity Seminar held at the Environmental Learning and Research Centre was led by the Khulumani team in Makana Municipality on 21 August 2014.</p> <p>The topic was ‘Complexity in Community Relationships’ and focused on the requirements for ‘the dominated’ to act to change their circumstances through making organised and effective demands through asserting a tactical agency. This is defined as ‘discerning and making use of possible opportunities to find a way or to use one’s own means.’</p> </div> <div class="itemFullText"> <p>Moving from victimhood to empowered citizenship (Khulumani’s mission) requires that the dominated link historical consciousness, critical thinking and emancipatory behaviour.</p> <p>Historical consciousness is understanding “who I am in the context of how others have made me”. (Sartre) while critical thinking is the political act of stepping beyond common-sense assumptions to evaluate them in terms of their genesis, development and purpose to discover that “I am able, (through my individual capacities & collective possibilities) “to go beyond the created structures in order to create others”; that I can escape my history (the place designated to me by the existing powers) to work with others to actively shape history. Emancipatory behaviour is acting to overthrow structures of domination.</p> <p>The introduction was followed by presentations by Mbulelo Lipile on the application of the framework for citizen-based monitoring recently approved by the Cabinet, by a presentation of the status of the Makana School Water Forums and by a review of the media coverage of water issues in South Africa over the past year using the Daily Sun and the weekly Grocott’s newspapers.</p> <div class="itemSocial"> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style"> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a> <a class="addthis_button_compact"></a> <a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="itemLinks"></div> <div class="itemNavigation"> <span>More in this category:</span> <a class="itemPrevious" href="/active-citizens/item/1011-unilever-homecare-division-visits-khulumani-water-project-in-grahamstown.html">« UNILEVER Homecare Division visits Khulumani water project in Grahamstown</a> <a class="itemNext" href="/active-citizens/item/1014-regional-khulumani-meeting-in-lusikisiki-o-r-tambo-district-to-discuss-reparations-and-land-claims.html">Regional Khulumani meeting in Lusikisiki, O.R. Tambo district discuss reparations and land claims »</a></div> <p> Post Views: 8
</p> <div class="itemIntroText"> <p>The monthly Transdisciplinarity Seminar held at the Environmental Learning and Research Centre was led by the Khulumani team in Makana Municipality on 21 August 2014.</p> <p>The topic was ‘Complexity in Community Relationships’ and focused on the requirements for ‘the dominated’ to act to change their circumstances through making organised and effective demands through asserting a tactical agency. This is defined as ‘discerning and making use of possible opportunities to find a way or to use one’s own means.’</p> </div> <div class="itemFullText"> <p>Moving from victimhood to empowered citizenship (Khulumani’s mission) requires that the dominated link historical consciousness, critical thinking and emancipatory behaviour.</p> <p>Historical consciousness is understanding “who I am in the context of how others have made me”. (Sartre) while critical thinking is the political act of stepping beyond common-sense assumptions to evaluate them in terms of their genesis, development and purpose to discover that “I am able, (through my individual capacities & collective possibilities) “to go beyond the created structures in order to create others”; that I can escape my history (the place designated to me by the existing powers) to work with others to actively shape history. Emancipatory behaviour is acting to overthrow structures of domination.</p> <p>The introduction was followed by presentations by Mbulelo Lipile on the application of the framework for citizen-based monitoring recently approved by the Cabinet, by a presentation of the status of the Makana School Water Forums and by a review of the media coverage of water issues in South Africa over the past year using the Daily Sun and the weekly Grocott’s newspapers.</p> <div class="itemSocial"> <div class="addthis_toolbox addthis_default_style addthis_32x32_style"> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_1"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_2"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_3"></a> <a class="addthis_button_preferred_4"></a> <a class="addthis_button_compact"></a> <a class="addthis_counter addthis_bubble_style"></a></div> </div> </div> <div class="itemLinks"></div> <div class="itemNavigation"> <span>More in this category:</span> <a class="itemPrevious" href="/active-citizens/item/1011-unilever-homecare-division-visits-khulumani-water-project-in-grahamstown.html">« UNILEVER Homecare Division visits Khulumani water project in Grahamstown</a> <a class="itemNext" href="/active-citizens/item/1014-regional-khulumani-meeting-in-lusikisiki-o-r-tambo-district-to-discuss-reparations-and-land-claims.html">Regional Khulumani meeting in Lusikisiki, O.R. Tambo district discuss reparations and land claims »</a></div> <p>
