It is a contribution to civic and global thinking aligned with John Cameron’s conception of “thick global citizenship” and Vanessa Andreotti’s approach to critical global citizenship, both of which invite learners and civic actors to consider their identities, assumptions, and critical roles at home rather than imagining solutions for others elsewhere around the world. Rather than first focusing attention on global governance structures that often seem far away and abstract, it invites learners to think from their own identities, experiences, and spaces of civic action and influence, drawing connections between those localized insights to then illuminate rooted understandings of global challenges, goals, and governance structures. The lens of interdependence concretizes the global through the specificity of the local. 42) must also influence how we think about our capacities to know and to do. That question, rooted in Robin Wall Kimmerer’s call “to see relationships, to seek the threads that connect the world, to join instead of divide,” (Kimmerer, 2013, p. It asks how we operate ethically within the communities and systems of which we are part and which support us. This understanding begins from the foundational reality of interdependence as our human-ecological condition. What do we mean by Interdependence? Embracing the truth of interdependence calls us toward new kinds of civic, ecological, and global understanding. ![]() We created this online inquiry and action toolkit, because we – the people of this beautiful, complex, fractured and unequal world – often do not understand and embrace our interdependence well enough. ![]() ![]() Hello, and welcome to Interdependence: Global Solidarity and Local Actions. An Invitation and Introduction to Thinking and Skill-Building for Social Action, Locally, and Internationally JOIN US - Interdependence is our lived experience
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