Derek Rasmussen
Legal researcher and writer. Buddhist meditation teacher.
Authored or co-authored chapters in 7 books:
Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis (2005), C.A. Bowers and Frédérique Apffel-Marglin (Eds.);
Fields of Green Restorying Culture, Environment and Education (2009): Marcia McKenzie, Paul Hart, Heesoon Bai, and Bob Jickling (Eds.);
The Way Forward: Educational Reforms that Focus on the Cultural Commons and the Linguistic Roots of the Ecological/Cultural Crises (2011), C. A. Bowers;
Contemporary Studies in Environmental and Indigenous Pedagogies (2013), Andrejs Kulnieks, Dan Roronhiakewen Longboat and Kelly Young (Eds.);
Dark Mountain: Issue 7 (2015), Paul Kingsnorth & Dougald Hine (Eds.);
Art, Ecojustice, and Education : Intersecting Theories and Practices (2018), Raisa Foster, Jussi P. Mäkelä, & Rebecca A. Martusewicz (Eds.).
A Book of Ecological Virtues: Living Well in the Anthropocene (2020) [co-authored chapter].
Writings also in:
the Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, Yes Magazine, Briarpatch Magazine, InterCulture, Science for the People, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Our Schools Our Selves, and Turning Wheel (Magazine of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship).
Invited speaker:
Eastern Michigan University, Concordia University, McGill University, Trent University, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Carleton University, Ottawa University, York University, the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Tampere University (Finland), Nunavut Arctic College, Harvard University, and Yale University.
Invited talks:
"Justice before Reconciliation in Canada" - Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions (2000); Beyond Freire: Integrating Spirituality in Higher Education, Smith College and University of Massachusetts (2000)
Third International Holistic Education Conference, OISE, University of Toronto.(2001); Governor General's Canadian Study Conference, Iqaluit. (2001); Intercultural Institute of Montreal (2005); Aboriginal Studies Program, University of Ottawa (2005, 2007); the Yale Agrarian Studies Colloquium; "Living with the Earth: Colloquium" (2007); EcoJustice Conference and Retreat; Trent University (2007); Degrowth Conference Montreal (2012); Loon Lake (BC) Colloquium: Education with, for and by the Earth (2013);The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference (2013, Amherst, MA); The Ecojustice and Activism Conference (2014, 2015, 2016, E.Michigan U); American Educational Studies Association (2015 San Antonio TX); Art, EcoJustice, and Education Conference (2017, Tampere, Finland); The Finnish Educational Research Association Conference (2018); the American Educational Research Association (2017, San Antonio; 2019, Toronto); Unsettling Conference (Reconciliation series; Concordia U, Montreal 2019); Inuit Studies Conference (2019); Ecofeminism and Education Conference (2020, Tampere U. Finland).
Authored or co-authored chapters in 7 books:
Rethinking Freire: Globalization and the Environmental Crisis (2005), C.A. Bowers and Frédérique Apffel-Marglin (Eds.);
Fields of Green Restorying Culture, Environment and Education (2009): Marcia McKenzie, Paul Hart, Heesoon Bai, and Bob Jickling (Eds.);
The Way Forward: Educational Reforms that Focus on the Cultural Commons and the Linguistic Roots of the Ecological/Cultural Crises (2011), C. A. Bowers;
Contemporary Studies in Environmental and Indigenous Pedagogies (2013), Andrejs Kulnieks, Dan Roronhiakewen Longboat and Kelly Young (Eds.);
Dark Mountain: Issue 7 (2015), Paul Kingsnorth & Dougald Hine (Eds.);
Art, Ecojustice, and Education : Intersecting Theories and Practices (2018), Raisa Foster, Jussi P. Mäkelä, & Rebecca A. Martusewicz (Eds.).
A Book of Ecological Virtues: Living Well in the Anthropocene (2020) [co-authored chapter].
Writings also in:
the Globe and Mail, Le Devoir, Interchange: A Quarterly Review of Education, Yes Magazine, Briarpatch Magazine, InterCulture, Science for the People, Cultural Survival Quarterly, Our Schools Our Selves, and Turning Wheel (Magazine of the Buddhist Peace Fellowship).
Invited speaker:
Eastern Michigan University, Concordia University, McGill University, Trent University, University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, Carleton University, Ottawa University, York University, the Autonomous University of Barcelona (UAB), Tampere University (Finland), Nunavut Arctic College, Harvard University, and Yale University.
Invited talks:
"Justice before Reconciliation in Canada" - Harvard University Center for the Study of World Religions (2000); Beyond Freire: Integrating Spirituality in Higher Education, Smith College and University of Massachusetts (2000)
Third International Holistic Education Conference, OISE, University of Toronto.(2001); Governor General's Canadian Study Conference, Iqaluit. (2001); Intercultural Institute of Montreal (2005); Aboriginal Studies Program, University of Ottawa (2005, 2007); the Yale Agrarian Studies Colloquium; "Living with the Earth: Colloquium" (2007); EcoJustice Conference and Retreat; Trent University (2007); Degrowth Conference Montreal (2012); Loon Lake (BC) Colloquium: Education with, for and by the Earth (2013);The Association for Contemplative Mind in Higher Education Conference (2013, Amherst, MA); The Ecojustice and Activism Conference (2014, 2015, 2016, E.Michigan U); American Educational Studies Association (2015 San Antonio TX); Art, EcoJustice, and Education Conference (2017, Tampere, Finland); The Finnish Educational Research Association Conference (2018); the American Educational Research Association (2017, San Antonio; 2019, Toronto); Unsettling Conference (Reconciliation series; Concordia U, Montreal 2019); Inuit Studies Conference (2019); Ecofeminism and Education Conference (2020, Tampere U. Finland).
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by Tommy Akulukjuk and Derek Rasmussen
pp59-70; Chapter 6, in
Art, EcoJustice, and Education: Intersecting Theories and Practices
(2018) Routledge, NY.
in
Fields of Green: Restorying Culture, Environment, and Education”
by Marcia McKenzie, Paul Hart, Heesoon Bai, and Bob Jickling (Eds.).
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc.
Forests, Trees & People Newsletter. No.44, April 2001.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala.
pp.8-16.
East Timor activism in Canada was carried on and energized by the East Timor Action Network and the hard work of Maggie Helwig, Ross Shotton, Elaine Briere, and David Webster (and others).
A shortened version of the recollection below (minus the poem) was published under the title above (chosen by the Globe and Mail) Sept. 18, 1999, after Indonesian-backed paramilitaries set fires in Dili, East Timor, and killed 1400 Timorese in an effort to overturn election results favouring independence.
Indonesia killed 1/3 of the Timorese population.
At the time, Canada was the largest investor in Indonesia and could have used its influence with the Suharto military dictatorship to protect Timor and human rights there--but the Canadian govt consciously chose not to. For more on Cdn govt's full knowledge of the Timorese tragedy and bureaucrats' and politicians' decision to support Suharto nonetheless, see David Webster's excellent book (2020) Challenge the Strong Wind: Canada and East Timor, 1975–99 (UBC Press). Canada also supplied weapons to the Indonesian army (see Matthew Jardine [1999]. East Timor: Genocide in Paradise- Odonian Press)
What does it say that we start each day plotting where we are in the week, how many days till Friday, till the weekend, till time off— are we in fact rushing the grave towards us, wishing that our lives passed quicker before our eyes, wishing the whole thing were over?
If the Buddha taught that we should be aware of exactly where we are in this very moment; what does it say that during our regular work week, all we want is for the end to come? For 5:00 PM or Friday to arrive?
How has an arbitrary and temporary economic system managed to so pervert our view of existence that we devote so much mental energy to wishing it were all over sooner?
This is the Priced vs The Priceless.
by Tommy Akulukjuk and Derek Rasmussen
pp59-70; Chapter 6, in
Art, EcoJustice, and Education: Intersecting Theories and Practices
(2018) Routledge, NY.
in
Fields of Green: Restorying Culture, Environment, and Education”
by Marcia McKenzie, Paul Hart, Heesoon Bai, and Bob Jickling (Eds.).
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, Inc.
Forests, Trees & People Newsletter. No.44, April 2001.
Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Uppsala.
pp.8-16.
East Timor activism in Canada was carried on and energized by the East Timor Action Network and the hard work of Maggie Helwig, Ross Shotton, Elaine Briere, and David Webster (and others).
A shortened version of the recollection below (minus the poem) was published under the title above (chosen by the Globe and Mail) Sept. 18, 1999, after Indonesian-backed paramilitaries set fires in Dili, East Timor, and killed 1400 Timorese in an effort to overturn election results favouring independence.
Indonesia killed 1/3 of the Timorese population.
At the time, Canada was the largest investor in Indonesia and could have used its influence with the Suharto military dictatorship to protect Timor and human rights there--but the Canadian govt consciously chose not to. For more on Cdn govt's full knowledge of the Timorese tragedy and bureaucrats' and politicians' decision to support Suharto nonetheless, see David Webster's excellent book (2020) Challenge the Strong Wind: Canada and East Timor, 1975–99 (UBC Press). Canada also supplied weapons to the Indonesian army (see Matthew Jardine [1999]. East Timor: Genocide in Paradise- Odonian Press)
What does it say that we start each day plotting where we are in the week, how many days till Friday, till the weekend, till time off— are we in fact rushing the grave towards us, wishing that our lives passed quicker before our eyes, wishing the whole thing were over?
If the Buddha taught that we should be aware of exactly where we are in this very moment; what does it say that during our regular work week, all we want is for the end to come? For 5:00 PM or Friday to arrive?
How has an arbitrary and temporary economic system managed to so pervert our view of existence that we devote so much mental energy to wishing it were all over sooner?
This is the Priced vs The Priceless.