HOST | ALNOOR LADHA

The Deschooling Dialogues is a collaboration between Culture Hack Labs and Kosmos Journal.

This is a podcast about both unlearning and remembering, as our species is being prepared for even deeper complexity, breakdown, tragedy, renewal, and rebirth. This transition calls upon all of us to be vigilant students of our cultures, to contemplate our entangled destinies, to abandon our entitlement, to transcend the apparent duality of inner and outer work, and to reaffirm our responsibility to each other and the interwoven fabric of our sentient planet and the living cosmos.

This is just some of what we’ll explore together.

Episode 1: Gustavo Esteva (August 20, 1936 - March 17, 2022)

Gustavo Esteva was one of the key leaders of both the deschooling and post-development movements. Gustavo was an independent writer and grassroots activist and a central figure in a wide range of Mexican civil society organizations and solidarity networks. 

In 1996, he was an advisor to the Zapatistas and their movement, the EZLN, in their negotiations with the Mexican government. He's the author of more than 40 books published in seven languages from topics including Economy and Alienation and Grassroots Post-modernism with Madhu Suri Prakash. He was a regular contributor to Mexico's leading daily La Hornada and wrote occasionally for The Guardian.