earth citzenship

Questions for reflection...

Think about your family connections (migrations, diasporas, etc.) and about the things you consume. Where were the clothes you are wearing right now made?

Where was the food you ate yesterday grown? Under what conditions? How can people in other countries affect you and how can you affect them? What are the moral implications of these relationships?

How do you understand globalisation? How are you affected by it? Is globalisation good, bad or both (for whom)? 

Who or what has shaped the current inequalities in the division of labour and resources in the world? Wh benefits from these inequalities? How is poverty created?

Should your thinking and behaviour as a student, consumer, professional, family member, etc. be affected by the lives of people you have never met?

This project supports the notion that our assumptions about reality and knowledge shape our attitudes, relationships and decisions. Therefore, this project encourages a learning process where participants' convictions are questioned and where they are exposed to other ways of knowing and seeing. This project does not promote one 'right answer' nor does it say that indigenous ways of knowing are the answer. Instead, it promotes a learning process that leads participants to think deeper and to recognise power, complexity and contingency in local and global settings. This initiative is committed to the creation of better grounds for dialogue and the renegotiation of power relations.