Eye of the Storm: stories of dispossession

Eye of the Storm: stories of dispossession. Scotland and the world.

What is the nature of the storm we are in, whipped up by the dispossession of communities and cultures from their lands and belonging over many centuries? 

What is the nature of the forces that possess us - outside and in - that drive immeasurable unnecessary suffering for so many right now, while amassing overwhelming suffering ahead? 

What’s the connection between what has happened here in Scotland and what has happened - and is happening - in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australasia? 

As attention focuses on the November 2021 Climate COP in Glasgow, what is happening here in Scotland that might give hope? 

Not hope that this system might reform itself and show us a path through, but hope that we might be able to refuse the system that shapes our sense of reality. 

How can we remember that reality is quite other to that which the system persuades us it is, and that each of us can decide to take the steps to help make a collective path that doesn’t yet exist? Can connected trust in action help recover our humanity, whether or not it is in time to recover our world?

Justin Kenrick focuses on supporting the life-reclaiming work of communities, ecologies and democracies.

He co-founded Heartpolitics to help enable Grassroots to Global Assemblies, chairs Action Porty which undertook the first successful urban community right to buy in Scotland, writes in many contexts, is active in the Extinction Rebellion Scotland Political Strategy circle, and was on the Stewarding Group of the Scottish Government’s Climate Citizens Assembly which Extinction Rebellion Scotland campaigned for but ultimately had to leave.  

Justin is an anthropologist and Senior Policy Advisor at Forest Peoples Programme where he works for community land rights in Kenya and Congo, and where he seeks to help reshape conservation so it is based on supporting communities to deepen their relations with their lands, not on evicting them from their land. 

He has a PhD in anthropology, trained in Buddhist psychotherapy, is a Quaker and has been imprisoned several times for peaceful direct action. He works to enable people to safely risk taking the steps needed to restore trust in themselves, their community, society and the world.

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