Invisiblised and Erased Narratives – Essential Views from the Margins
Today’s middle ground seems to be less ‘on point’ and an unfashionable place to be, the echo chamber effect of polarised thinking and narratives, in this bumper year of elections, gives us time to pause and reflect on where we have arrived after a worldwide pandemic. Our world is getting far more violent: conflict event rates have increased by over 40% from 2020 through 2023; and increased 12% in 2023 from 2022 rates (ACLED 2024).
We have scattered, fragmented spaces where an open constructive global dialogue could be undertaken. These spaces are in short supply for young people across the world, who have constrained access to alternative narratives, histories, and writing. We risk the erasure of such spaces for our youth as each generation that passes takes with it memory, wisdom and note keeping of the middle ground.
This talk discusses how this middle ground is key to addressing global challenges and explores how we could hold on to this shrinking space.
Professor Neelam Raina (Middlesex University, United Kingdom) speaks at the joint conferences on Education (ECE2024), Language Learning, (ECLL2024), Arts & Humanities (ECAH2024), and Aging & Gerontology (EGen2024) in London, United Kingdom.
The European Conference on Education (ECE2024) https://ece.iafor.org
The European Conference on Language Learning (ECLL2024) https://ecll.iafor.org
The European Conference on Arts & Humanities (ECAH2024) https://ecah.iafor.org
The European Conference on Aging & Gerontology (EGen2024) https://egen.iafor.org
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