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Strategies Beyond Borders: Timebanks in Classroom Settings

Pallavi Varma Patil

Norrag Special Issue | October 29, 2024

In this paper, we discuss a pedagogy grounded in a theoretical framework that recognizes our historical moment—the end stage of coloniality that has shaped global and local social relations for the past 600 years. We share an initiative based on principles and practices that challenge core capitalist and colonial ways of organizing society and meeting basic needs. At its heart, this activity challenges many of the tenets of a colonial world that is oriented to separations, polarities, individualism, hierarchies, and private solutions. In practice, it is simple, doable, and practical, yet it holds unlimited potential—material as well as spiritual—forcing us to rethink our relationships with each other and the world. In these ways, we share our experiences in developing a project over the past two years that reflects the spirit of this special issue

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