Perspectives Asia #9: Two Sides of the Medals Published: 1 October 2020 This issue of Perspectives Asia examines the intersections of sports and politics. We look at how, through sports, identities are shaped, myths and heroes are born, and unconventional truths are buried.
Sharing life: The ecopolitics of reciprocity Published: 10 September 2020 This essay proposes animism as a strategy to readjust humanities’ relationship to earth – the shared life of human and nonhuman beings. The essay suggests to explore emerging ideas in anthropology and biosemiotics which highlight the animistic understanding that the material world displays subjectivity, feeling, and personhood. The insistence of western culture to rely only on a material science and to declare aliveness an illusion is a colonisation of the living cosmos, which severs humans from their aliveness and destroys the lifes of other beings – humans and non-humans alike. This essay asks animistic cultures for guidance in a process of western self-decolonisation. The shift towards new animistic perspectives – and practices – must come about as dialogue in which western thinking is willing to undergo radical – and painful – changes. Then animism can lead us into a truly new worldview of the Anthropocene, where human and non-human agency contribute to a fecund earth.
Powering ahead Published: 31 August 2020 The scoping report examines and reviews existing policies, regulatory structures and instruments to promote, develop, monitor and regulate renewable energy at the central and state levels.
Engendering the government’s flagship programmes: Looking at the pradhan mantri gram sadak yojana (PMGSY) and the total sanitation campaign (TSC) Published: 9 October 2012
Women farmer’s entitlement bill 2011: understanding the changing needs of agriculture economy Published: 9 August 2012
Is micro-finance at the crossroads in india? What does it mean for women’s livelihood concerns? Published: 9 April 2012