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    To Conceive of the Curriculum of the Forest

    Nov 01, 2020 3 minutes
    BY ABHIJAN TOTO AND PUJITA GUHA FOR THE FOREST CURRICULUM

    The Forest Curriculum is a platform for inter- and anti-disciplinary research and co-learning that attempts to reorient forms of knowledge away from the planetarity of the Anthropocene toward an ecosophical mode of thinking rooted in the cosmologies of the naturecultures of Zomia.

    Proposed by Willem van Schendel and built upon by James C. Scott, Zomia is the name for a vast region that enfolds borderlands and contested regions including Northeastern India, the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh,

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