Global Citizenship and Ethical Space
How might the idea of "ethical space" help us understand how to take action as global citizens? How might we create global / glocal ethical space to engage with the issues that we face a people on a shared planet? ( see the resource I posted for more information on "ethical space")
Here is a bit of information about ethical space from Willie Ermine 2007: In Roger Poole’s description of ethical space, a photograph dating to the Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia is presented. In the picture, two men are sitting on a park bench looking at each other. One man is dressed in army fatigues and is clearly representative of the dominant and occupying force, while the other man, dressed in civilian, peasant clothing, clearly represents one of the “occupied.” The space between them is what intrigued Poole. On the surface, the presence of the other is acknowledged, but it is space between people, at the unstated, unseen level of thought and feeling that is overwhelming in the picture. Poole directs our focus to that space and invites us to reflect on the electrifying nature of that area between entities that we thought was empty. It is the contention here that this similar schismatic
ambience is created between peoples and cultures, and in particular whenever and wherever the physical and philosophical encounter of Indigenous and Western worlds takes place.