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Från: Azril Bacal <bazril@...>
Date: tis 15 feb. 2022 15:25
Subject: Re: ideas for special reflective issue of journal
To: Susan Jane Goff <publications@...>
Cc: Erik Lindhult <erik.lindhult@...>, Yedida Bessemer <
yedidabessemer@...>, Colin Bradley <president@...>,
Riripeti Reedy <riripeti.reedy@...>, Shankar Sankaran <
Shankar.Sankaran@...>, Shawn Wilson <Shawn.Wilson@...>,
Shawn Wilson <shawn.wilson@...>


Dear Colin and All,
Actually, we are in the midst of a crisis of collective behavior and global
anomie, which was aptly analized by Tamotsu Shibutani in terms of the
Sociology/Sociogenesis of Rumors - hand in hand with the impact of
propaganda on crowd behavior - reflected in the growth of nationalist
populism and etno-politics - reminiscent of fascism and nazism in the past
century. In other words, we are facing a crisis of civilization beyond a
knowledge crisis.
A crisis where in Hanna Arendt's terms people stop thinking and are (mis)
led by "engineers of the mind" into denial of features such as Covid-19
vaccination, climate change and electoral results which added together
threaten liberal and social democracies in our time ⌚
Warm regards
Azril

On Tue, Feb 15, 2022, 02:42 Susan Jane Goff <
publications@...> wrote:

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> On 15 Feb 2022, at 6:32 pm, Erik Lindhult <erik.lindhult@...> wrote:
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> Some thoughts on special issue, based on conversation Riripety-Erik:
>
> *Knowledge and practical wisdom in times of pandemia and populism*
>
> In times of social crises and dangers the demand for knowledge and wisdom
> becomes stronger but also dearer. A striving to legitimize popular learning
> is part of the tradition of action research, but can in endangered times
> also be a source of populism that is both building tension between popular,
> academic and public knowing. A fascinating dimension in the pandemic is
> the issue of knowledge (including weak or fake variants, rumors etc ),
> inquiry and its link to judgment and action. This is one core dimension of
> both action learning and action research. We can see a shrinking distance
> in the pandemic here, something that it can be said AL and AR also is
> striving for since its inception. How emergent, very new claims to learning
> very fast interact with action causing different dynamics, maybe even an
> aspect of democratized dynamics, but also different kinds of political
> tensions of knowing and inquiry. The more democratic rationality and
> combined intelligence that AL and AR had been striving for may maybe be
> seen here, but there are also other less positive dynamics here around than
> “wisdom of crowds”. The old English (and Scandinavian) connection between
> truth, trust and faith has renewed significance.
> What knowledge counts? Whose knowledge counts? What count as knowledge?
> What does it mean for freedom and justice? What is the role of action
> research and action learning in this dynamics of popular, academic and
> public/governmental knowing? How find a place for practical wisom, an
> Aristotelian phonesis as a balanced, situated judgment on what is good and
> bad for man?
>
> How does the values and practices of AR and AL play out in this dynamic?
> How can it contribute to a positive dynamics in striving for democratizing
> of knowledge and knowledge building in working to achieve an equitable
> society?
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>
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