Voices of Vulnerability Choices for Change edited by John D'Souza
Voices of Vulnerability Choices for Change edited by John D'Souza
Voices of Vulnerability,Choices for Change is a coming together of vulnerability assessment studies done by INECC partners in different eco-regions among the marginalised communities.`
The choices for Change indicated by the Voices in the studies across eco-regions, call for protection and regeneration of natural resources, upgrading and up scaling of zero carbon practices and building capacities and governance based on local economies. Youth in all the eco-regions are now more educated but need eco-system related modern livelihoods in the form of adding value to local produce processing value added services etc.
Communalism:The Razor's Edge: a FactSheet
Communalism:The Razor's Edge: a FactSheet
Though each communal riot is a retrograde expression it also signifies that Indian society is rapidly being transformed. While this does not imply that we condone communalism, we do believe that the peculiar nature of Indian capitalist development has legitimised communal heirarchies. Thus, the problem cannot be wished away; it will remain an integral part of Indian politics and society until the path of economic development itself undergoes a national change.
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Vulnerability Assessment: Urban Communities and Climate Change: Pilot study
Vulnerability Assessment: Urban Communities and Climate Change: Pilot study
CED took up this short-term study that focuses on the vulnerability of urban marginalized communities to Climate Change. We felt the need to
- understand what constitutes urban vulnerability in the context of climate change
- identify the links between general environmental degradation and urban vulnerability
- understand people's responses and capabilities.
The study was deemed to be at three levels – a family level, a neighbourhood level and with certain specific occupational groups who directly or indirectly impact the global climate change phenomenon. The questionnaires were based on the outcomes that were previously enumerated through a brainstorming with the team and revised a number of times. The research design, Enumeration of the outcomes was put into place for the vulnerability study.
IV Habitat
VI Perceptions, Impacts & Coping mechanism to Climate Change
Rethinking Universities for Development intermediaries, innovation and inclusion
Rethinking Universities for Development intermediaries, innovation and inclusion
This volume is a compilation of papers presented and consequent discussions at the concluding research meeting of the Universities and Intermediaries for Inclusive Innovation and Development (UNIID) South Asian Network, Organised on the theme "Rethinking universities in India: Intermediaries for Socially Inclusive development" on January 8-9 2013, at Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi.
Edited by: Prof. Shambu Prasad, John DSouza
Mirror Image: The Media and the Women's Question
Mirror Image: The Media and the Women's Question
by Vimal Balasubrahmanyan,
Published in 1988, this book is an effort at examining the issue of women and the media in the wake of the activities of the women's movement. The study concentrates mainly on the English language print-media - newspapers and mass circulation magazines - from early 1980s to around September 1987, with a brief look at television and just a glance at cinema and at advertising.
II. Virtual Image
III. Lateral Inversion
IV. Face to Face
VII. With a View to Change
Background to Globalisation
Background to Globalisation
by Avinash Jha
Price: Rs. 150/- US $10 outside India Pages: 180 Paperback Print 2000 Reprint 2001
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.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Globalisation, Markets and Changing lives
Chapter II: Origins of the modern global Economy in Europe
Chapter III: Philosophies of Progress
Chapter IV: The Rise of the U S Led Global Economy
Chapter V : The Crises in the world Economy and the Emergence of Globalisation
Chapter VI: The Globalised World
Changing the Stream
Changing the Stream: Backgrounder on the Women's Movement in India
by Shubha Chacko
A Backgrounder on the Women's Movement in India
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.
Table of Contents
I Contextualising The Struggle
II Our Movement, Ourselves
III Tracing the Path of the Struggle
IV Violence Against Women, Women Against Violence
V The Wrong Arm of the Law?
VI The Body Politic: Women's Health
VII Other Engagements
VIII The Politics of Identity
IX Women and the State
X Women, Development and the state
XI Women and Environment
XII The Future: Looking forward
Lets Make it Happens
LETS Make it happen
a CED Backgrounder on Alternative Economics
Lets make it happen, is a plea for creating collective economic institutions including community currency, development of local markets and bio-mass based industry. It is a backgrounder on Alternative economics for activists and social workers, which says, TAMA: There Are Many Alternatives, to mainstream Globalisation and to an economics which continuously marginalises the poor
Table of Contents:
Section I : Towards a New Economics: The struggle against TINA is firstly conceptual and thus begins with challenging some of the basic assumptions of classical economics.
Section II: Market Fundamentalism
The nature and functioning of the modern market lies at the heart of the crisis precipitated by the prevailing form of globalisation.
Section III: New Money
Paper money in the bank is quated with wealth rather than tangibles like natural resources that actually sustain life.
Section IV: Going Local
Cosmopolitian Localism, which is not a cloaked parachialism, involves new approaches to evaluating real wealth creating sustainability and promoting true peace and international security.