"Traditional survival skills can open up alternative ways of living"

The project has now officially started! Exciting - and challenging - time ahead!

For now, here comes an article introducing some core ideas of the project in Extrakt - an online magazine that covers latest research on sustainability issues in Sweden.

The article is in Swedish, but here is the most important part -

"– Survival skills can open up alternative way of living, and it is really needed in this time when many people feel stressed and live in a way that is not ecologically sustainable, he says.

He explains that a basic assumption in the project is that all the environmental challenges that we as a society are facing are symptoms of a deeper relational crisis between us humans, and between us and nature.

He believes that traditional survival skills could help address this relational crisis, but this requires a different perspective on what survival really means - focusing on mending these relationships.

– This way of looking at survival has roots in Indigenous cultures. What we call survival skills today is mainly based on knowledge from Indigenous peoples and hunter-gatherer societies, but history shows that Western societies have picked the practical parts and ignored the deeper understanding that nature is something we are in relationship with, not just exploiting. "

https://www.extrakt.se/overlevnadskunskap-kan-visa-ett-annat-satt-att-leva/