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Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

309) Manpreet Kalra: Deconstructing saviorism from heropreneurship and voluntourism

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

Kaméa Chayne

Earth Sciences, Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science

4.8694 Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

What harms do saviorist narratives perpetuate through voluntourism and heropreneurship—when they hold the intentions of doing good? How does the dichotomy of the Global North and Global South reinforce certain ideologies around societal progress?

In this episode, we welcome Manpreet Kaur Kalra, a social impact advisor, educator, and activist working to decolonize storytelling. She navigates the intersection of impact communication and sustainable global development. She educates using a variety of mediums, including the Art of Citizenry Podcast, where she shares her nuanced and unfiltered insights on building a more just and equitable future.

The song featured in this episode is There is Still Time by Laura Palicka.

 

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Support for this episode also comes from Tonle, a maker-led community that

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creates clothing, accessories, and homewares from reclaimed materials. Tonle centers people historically

1:21.4

sidelined by the fashion industry as leaders and creators, and collaboration, reciprocity, and justice are some of their core values

1:30.3

that I feel aligned with. Right now, I'm particularly looking forward to their collaboration

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with Cambodian-Australian designer Natalie Lee, which will be a small capsule of hand-woven,

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plant-dyed clothing, made with regenerative fibers like Kapok from trees

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that grow right around the weaving center that they work with in Cambodia. To check out Tonle,

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you can head to tonle.com. That's spelled T-O-N-L-E dot com. Again, t-O-N-L-E dot com.

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