Your Name | Lindsay Keiter |
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Email Address | lindsay.keiter@gmail.com |
Cohort Assignment | Americas with Online Intensive, Winter-Spring 2024 |
1. What do you see as your primary work at this stage of your life? | I'm a historian and professor but increasingly feel that I need to do something that directly improves real life. |
2. What role do you see as yours to play? | I'm not entirely sure. |
3. What goals or aims do you have in regard to the above? | I am hoping that this course will help me realize ways to bring regenerative frameworks to bear in my academic work and perhaps open a path towards an additional career working more directly with regenerative design. |
4. Where do you feel your next arenas for personal growth are? | I think I need to reexamine limiting assumptions/fears and accept that I may be able/worthy of contributing to tangible change. |
5. And for professional growth? | I hope that this can be a starting point for an additional/complementary career. |
6. What have you invested in to get you where you are? | Hmmm. A lot of reading about green design and gardening and invasive species and climate change. Rumination/anxiety over the state and trajectory of the myself/family, country, planet. |
7. What fields of learning and which thinkers have been important in your life? | As a historian I try to remind myself and my students of teleology traps--that events and aspects of social systems (e.g., patriarchy, capitalism) are contingent on actions and that actions are choices. The reading I've done on the environmental potential of certain forms of gardening/permaculture/agriculture have helped me think in terms of nested/living systems. I'm having a hard time answering this without giving a list of history books! |
8. Can you frame your philosophy or cosmology of life? What role(s) do humans play in it? | I don't think I've had to articulate this before. I guess I would say that I don't believe in traditional deities/divinity, but try to honor the energy/value of the natural world including people. I think people are inherently good but we've come to a social/political/economic place where extraction and exploitation are normalized and embedded in almost every aspect of daily life. |
Date Created | January 23, 2024 |