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Whether it's called Susu, Stokvel, or Mukando is the African philosophy of Ubuntu. The rules of these savings groups, both written and unwritten, reflect this worldview perfectly. Membership is built on trust, reciprocity, and mutual accountability. In practice, these groups become sites of co-creation and shared knowledge, where managing money is completely intertwined with cultural values like fairness, care, and resilience. +
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The concept of Ta Madok Maka extends beyond reciprocal relationship between human to human. It is centered in our Indigenous Karen’s ontology of co-existence with nature through having a balanced and harmonious relationship with sacred lands, waters, forests, mountains, and wildlife. +
...el tequio sigue produciéndose, aún en contextos en los que parece haberse abandonado resurge con fuerza cada vez que una colectividad enfrenta problemas; es una práctica de larga data que sobrevive en la memoria de muchos pueblos y que se mantiene vigente como herramienta efectiva para la generación del bien común. +
...tequio continues to occur, even in contexts where it seems to have been abandoned, it resurfaces strongly whenever a community faces problems; it is a long-standing practice that survives in the memory of many peoples and remains in force as an effective tool for generating the common good. +
Timuay is grounded in seven guiding principles that articulate the community’s relationship with nature, governance, justice, and external relations. Refa lowoh (extension of the body) affirms that nature is an extension of the human body and life, embodying a spiritual connection to the Creator +
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“Western and white South African researchers commit epistemic injustice when they misunderstand and reduce these ideas to bumper stickers. This reduction is accomplished by transacting these concepts for liberal or corporate interests, thus extracting them from their Black Consciousness context and stripping their power.” +
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Every attempt to replace vernacular values with standardized commodities has not led to greater equity but has instead deepened a hierarchical modernization of poverty +
By speaking about vernacular language and the possibility of its recuperation, I am trying to bring into awareness and discussion the existence of a vernacular mode of being, doing, and making that in a desirable future society might again expand in all aspects of life. +
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La noción zonas de sacrificio permite hacer visibles los daños socioambientales propios de una concentración y superposición de dinámicas capitalistas que contaminan, intoxican y alteran radicalmente el tejido de la vida. +