{"id":5627,"date":"2021-08-17T06:25:52","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T06:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ecoversities.org\/?p=5627"},"modified":"2021-10-23T19:18:14","modified_gmt":"2021-10-23T19:18:14","slug":"holding-space-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ecoversities.org\/pt\/holding-space-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Holding Space, Together"},"content":{"rendered":"
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By Alessandra Pomarico with <\/i>K\u016b Kahakalau and Kate Morales<\/strong><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Okiciya makiyokipi na iyuteya, cuke wayokapi, mitakuye oyasin.<\/em><\/p>

Help each other acclimatize and adjust, because the truth is, we are all related.<\/em><\/p>

\u2014 Lakota saying shared by Wahinkpe Topa (Four Arrows)<\/p>

Together, to gather, to get there. To become one in many, a multitude of singularities, a larger \u2018we\u2019 that also includes the more-than-human. To learn from each other, to produce forms of agencements<\/i>,\u00b9 consentments,\u00b2 agreements, while so much constantly separates us. To make webs, filaments, to grow roots and tentacles. To love a mushroom,\u00b3 and learn how to become one. To imagine ourselves as a hive, as a school of fish, a flock, a band, a social body, a dance party. To become relative, to mend relations, tracing back (and forward) our different geographies, cultures, privileges, and positions, opening up our worlds, wounds, languages, cultivating a project of justice, liberation, to interrupt the grabbing of lands and territories, the enclosure of the fixed identities, borders, classes, genders, sexes, histories, diplomas. After all, is it not why we meet in the first place?<\/p>

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\u00b9 A term originally introduced by Deleuze and Guattari in their book <\/span>A Thousand Plateaus, to signal complexity in social and ecological systems through relation. The French word is more nuanced than its translation \u2018assemblage.\u2019 I also use it to bring in and stretch the notion of <\/span>agency, lately interpreted in ways that tend to overlook our interrelatedness and interdependence.<\/span><\/em><\/p>

\u00b2 The term, used in the sociocracy movement, and discussed during informal conversations with Vanessa Andreotti, refers to the difference between consensus and consent. As she explains: \u2018While <\/span>consensus requires us to be on the same page to work together (to agree on the ends and means), <\/span>consent allows us to work together in dissensus: we don\u2019t have to be on the same page, but we need to be moving together on the same wavelength.\u2019<\/span><\/em><\/p>

\u00b3 Inspired by Tsing, <\/span>Arts of Inclusion, or How to Love a Mushroom.<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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This essay is part of the publication\u00a0Slow Spatial Reader: Chronicles of Radical Affection<\/i>, Carolyn F. Strauss (ed.), Amsterdam: Valiz, 2021,\u00a0www.valiz.nl\/en\/publications\/slow-spatial-reader.html<\/a>.<\/p>

Published under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0:\u00a0https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-nd\/4.0\/<\/a>,\u00a0with the editor’s and publisher’s knowledge and permission.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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