Ishān A. Email and Phone Number
Navigating 'anthropy' and straddling paradoxes, I am a systems-thinking ecologist based in India. I take interest in the poetics and politics of kinship. My lifework is anchored in cultivating courageous ecocultural imaginations with a deep decolonial ethic to meet the vicissitudinous polycrises.At Dancing with Mountains (Chennai), I work with Dr Bayo Akomolafe in supporting translocal communities of practice to converge, commune, and experiment around the emergent fields of postactivism and ontofugitivty. I also write a monthly digest, the climate onion, to support bottoms-up ecological advocacies and knowledge building in India. I am a 2024 Post Growth Fellow, 2023 Bioleadership Fellow, and associated with the Postnatural Independent Program (2024).In futuring just systems, I believe in ideals of citizen satyagraha, coliberation, and ecoswaraj - expressions that feels increasingly relevant and need to be front and center of the "climate" conundrum. Drawing inspirations from ecofeminist philosophies and the rich tapestries of traditional ecological knowledge systems, I seek for deepening relationships with Gaian systems while dwelling in radical glocal possiblities and imaginaries. Having been around the block — previously, as a capital markets trader where I had my reckoning with the pervasive hyperindividualism inhabiting our major extractive worksectors; living in an eco-township for a year where an embodied errancy allowed me to rechart my life paths and become grounded in local projects; then as a sustainability zealot solving for the megawaste crises flooding our urbanscapes; as a climate science communicator and activist organizing with XR in India and the UK — I finally locate myself in the larger space field of cultural and systems transformations. I also draw deeply from my experiences in ecological economics and climate justice movements, my engaged ecology studies at Schumacher College, and as a keen learner from autonomous localised living communes (spent considerable time in Auroville, IN too) like Rojava that are embodying postcapitalist models.I prefer living in the liminal, and transgressing normative boundaries of possibilities. My current dwellings are around - postactivism as a prism for manifold approaches and organising capabilities to subvert our hegemonic modernity;- embodied place-based praxis and gestures towards tackling epistemic injustices as we stumble into a Humilocene (David Abram).
Dancing With Mountains
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Projects Associate - Networks And FellowshipsDancing With Mountains Apr 2023 - Presentwww.dancingwithmountains.com• Working with Dr Bayo Akomolafe in supporting translocal communities of practice to converge, commune, and experiment around the emergent fields of postactivism and ontofugitivty to nurture an emancipatory politics of the third-way.• Core team organiser for a multi-continental transdisciplinary Carnival in 2025; previously also for the We Will Dance with Mountains course in 2023 to co-design pedagogy.• Stewarding our translocal web of co-inquiry called The Mycelium: with the Othering and Belonging Institute (OBI), the Aspen Institute on creating the ’Making Sanctuary’ course to shape transformative leaderships in response to the polycrises. -
Co-ConspiratorCenter For Spiritual Ecology Aug 2022 - Presentslow emergent weaving of a community in Bengaluru that discusses, contemplates, and researches different strands of placemaking and spiritualities to support ecological wellbeing and enable rooted responses to the polycrises.
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Speaking/Presenting EngagementsEcosocialist Imaginaries Jul 2019 - Present🌿 Guest lecture on Contextualising Ecological Justice at National Law School of India University (NLSIU), Bangalore, Apr '23🌿 Workshop on Finding Your Way through Climate Change at Bhoomi Yugaantar Festival, Bangalore, Dec '22🌿 Presentation on What Climate Action means for communities? at Interfaith & Climate Justice Dialogues, Fireflies (Bangalore), Aug '22 & Dec '22🌿 Talk on Climate Crisis: a Crisis of Imagination, Future City Festival (Bangalore), Jun '22 🌿 Guest lecture on Climate Justice movements and shifting paradigms, Azim Premji University, Apr '22🌿 Interviewee on WhatIf? podcast for intergenerational perspectives on COP 26, Jan '22🌿 Online discussion panel with Transition Movement leaders on COP 26: What Next for Community Activism, Dec '21🌿 Public lecture alongside Roger Hallam on What's next after COP, Glasgow, Nov '21🌿 Coliberation theory of change workshop, St Ethelburga's Centre for Reconciliation and Peace (London), Aug '21🌿 Guest lecture on Pluriverse of Alternative Economics Paradigms, Berlin School of Economics and Law, Jun '21🌿 Interviewee on QuarantineTalk podcast for Earth Day 2020 discussing intersections of climate action and covid recovery, Apr '20🌿 Deep Adaptation community workshop, Auroville, Nov'19🌿 Presentation on Climate Change and Local Impacts, Pondicherry University, Aug '19🌿 Climate Emergency talks (XR's Heading for Extinction awareness for multiple target groups) across Bangalore in parks/colleges/workplaces attempting to highlight the important and yet unaddressed need of creating a big-tent climate coalition that can truly shape and transform systemic discourses in India as a response to the vividly unequal and in some cases collapsing system that is failing to treat the climate crisis as one of emergency for the largest mass of people in one nation on earth. What do habitable futures on our subcontinent look like and what might be collaborative climate action now? Jul-Dec '19
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Climate Education And Programs ConsultantPipal Tree And Fireflies Nov 2022 - Sep 2024Greater Bengaluru Area
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OrganizerInitiative For Climate Action Mar 2022 - Sep 2023Bengaluru, Karnataka, India -
Knowledge And Policy ResearcherWellbeing Economy Alliance - Weall May 2022 - Sep 2022 -
Editorial Blog TeamDegrowth.Info Nov 2020 - Apr 2022
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CoordinatorExtinction Rebellion Jun 2019 - Feb 2022 -
Anti-Oppression & Wellbeing (Social Reproduction Team)Cop26 Coalition Sep 2021 - Nov 2021Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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OperationsSaahas Zero Waste May 2018 - Sep 2019Bengaluru Area, India -
Capital Markets TraderFutures First Jul 2014 - Sep 2016Bangalore -
CofounderTrippin' Unlimited (Later Trippify.Me) Aug 2011 - May 2014
Ishān A. Education Details
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Engaged Ecology -
Institute For Postnatural Studies -
International Bateson InstituteWarm Data Lab -
Bits Pilani Hyderabad CampusCivil Engineering -
Pcm & Comp.Sc. -
Mount St. Mary'S School
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Ishān A. works for Dancing With Mountains
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Ishān A.'s current role is decolonial ecologies & futures • climate justice • post growth fellow.
What schools did Ishān A. attend?
Ishān A. attended Schumacher College, Institute For Postnatural Studies, Terra.do, Birla Institute Of Technology And Science, Pilani, International Bateson Institute, Terra.do, Bits Pilani Hyderabad Campus, Delhi Public School, Vasant Kunj, Mount St. Mary's School.
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