The pala-pitta sings no more (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjCto1pE_Nk : DVD PAL, 8’22” min. Telugu with English sub-titles , 22nd October 2010. for Full resolution DVD contact CED.
A short trigger film on climate change issues facing people from semi-arid regions featuring the People's Tribunal on livelihoods and climate change,South India Script (http://el.doccentre.info/eldoc1/INECC/ppt/The_Palapittasingsnomore.pdf)
After the Cancun COP where the REDD proposal were put-together, CED revised its Climate Education Booklet on Forestry to include a critique of the REDD proposals and the Indian government's policy approach to forestry development.
The Revised Booklet titled Missing the Community for the woods: Forests, Communities and climate Change in India contains updated chapters on Forests in India covering India's approach to REDD+, a chapter on the western ghats, and What is to be done.
A Kannada version of the booklet has been prepared and is now undergoing pre-production and production work.
Background to Globalisation
Also available in Hindi.
Globalisation has intensified the domination of societies by considerations of economy and state power. This book traces this trend from the beginnings of modern world and documents the emergence of the U.S.-led global system after the second world war. The most visible aspects of globalisation today are the explosion of the financial markets and the so-called information revolution.
The Long and Winding Road
from Structural Change to Structural Transformation
A Backgrounder on NGOs and People's Movements
[write to us for a copy]
This book is written to bring to the reader the background of the key issues that concern NGOs and point to readings and references available at CED. This book is a part of a personal journey, an exploration, of what NGOs have been attempting to do during the past three to four decades
Also available in Hindi
Changing the Stream
A Backgrounder on the Women's Movement in India
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This publication outlines the nature and constituents of the Movement, as also its engagement with the State, with various institutions and its bid to influence and rewrite agendas. It captures the various strands that make up the women's movement and proceeds to look at where we are now before finally setting out some of the challenges facing us
An Economics for Well-Being
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An Economics for Well-Being focuses on the kinds of economic structures that could truly revitalize and enrich people at all levels of society.
The thinking in the 'New Economics' stream is an important aspect of the global quest for systems that are socially just and ecologically sound.
The ultimate purpose, well-being of all citizens, may seem to be very far in the future. Yet, as this backgrounder shows, there are a wide range of initiatives in the here and now which are the next few steps helping us to move in that direction.
This backgrounder will help inform and enliven the process of making breakthroughs in our systems of production, technology, exchange of goods and, above all, the meaning and uses of wealth.
Rajni Bakshi is an activist cum journalist and a long time associate of Centre for Education and Documentation.
FASCISM & COMMUNALISM CONSIDERATIONS
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The surge in Hindutva politics in the late 1980s raised the crucial question of the similarities and dissimilarities between communalism and fascism.
The demolition of the Babri mosque in 1992 and subsequent widespread violence of 1992-93, the formation of a BJP led government in 1998, and particularly the Gujarat Carnage of 2002 lent even greater urgency and sharpness to the debate.
This short book examines the question in some detail essentially for the general, non-specialist reader.
It dwells on the specificity of the Gujarat Carnage as well as the characteristics of the Sangh Parivar. It also explores the essential distinguishing traits of fascism – as a generic movement. It then seeks to compare the classic fascist organizations and the Sangh Parivar.
The Introduction and Conclusion (called Prelude and Afterthoughts) attempt to place the debate in the context of contemporary Indian reality..
Sandeep Pendse, based in Mumbai, is an independent researcher and writer
Injecting NET-EN into India
Health Sans Multinationals:The Bangladesh Crusade
Operation Flood: Development or Dependence?
In this study we are concerned with the implications of Operation Flood, a dairy development project based on foreign funds and the capital raised from sales of imported butter oil and skimmed milk powder gifted by surplus stock with the European Economic Community. The study concentrates on evaluating the performance of OF and examining whether it will help in making India self-sufficient in dairying or if it will pull the country further into the vortex of aided development that stems from the developed world and threatens to engulf the Third World.
- Notes on the outcomes
- interviews & Events
- Notes during COP17
- Watch footage at http://www.justin.tv/oneclimate2
| PAL, 26.22mins, Telugu with English subtitles. Highlights of the People's Tribunal on livelihoods and Climate Change (South India), 22 October 2010. Read more... |
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Veerabagupathy : A Community in Transition |
Inayand Seyal Peduttal ("Net-working" Together ) Read more... |
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Urban Communities and Climate Change Pilot Study
CED has taken up this short-term study that focuses on the vulnerability of urban marginalised communities to Climate Change.
Resources for NGOs
“I am the Drum”
"Namma Kadalkarai - Namma Urimal"(Our Coast-Our Right)