Punk Ethnography is a platform that brings together individuals and communities from across disciplines and contexts who are actively, and in solidarity, working towards collaborative, participatory, plural, and imaginative futures. Through sharing and engaging in projects, podcasts, writings etc. we want to give a voice to initiatives that emerge bottom-up, out of a strong sense of responsibility and commitment to direct action. Our purpose is to support and foster dialogue between individuals and communities who are taking education into a range of imaginative and speculative spaces, in or outside classrooms and institutions, wherever they are in the world. We hope the platform offers ideas, encouragement, questions and opportunities to join the struggle, and to make hope rather than despair the driving principle of our day-to-day actions.
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Elke Van dermijnsbrugge is a scholar, advisor, trainer and activist who has worked in international educational contexts in Africa, Asia, and Europe. She conducts research, advise on, and facilitate projects in collaboration with a diverse range of organisations across the globe. She specialises in utilising utopian and speculative thinking, the punk ethos and principles of self-organisation, anarchism, mutual aid and solidarity to help reimagine policy, research and practices in order to support collaborative, participatory, plural, just and imaginative futures. In all her work she is guided by post-growth social and ecological ethics.
Elke holds a PhD in Education from University College London and she is also one of the co-convenors of the Anarchist Studies Network.
Douglas Kidd is an independent educator living who has lead primary schools in Groningen in the Netherlands and in various parts of the UK. He worked for a decade in Hong Kong as an educator and leader in primary schools, secondary schools and the outdoor education sector. His interests lie in education as a site for exploring who we are, what it means to live a good life and how we can build better futures together where all species and our shared planet can thrive. He is a trustee of the Brighton Permaculture Trust.
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Logo design: Kat Tzembelikos
