Alternative Worldviews - Sharing life: The ecopolitics of reciprocity
Evolving around the main essay “Sharing life. The Ecopolitics of Reciprocity” all contributions to this assemblage reflect a common understanding that ecology and biodiversity needs to be reclaimed – and constantly generated – as a process of lived and living realities in a system of reciprocal relationships. Accordingly, this assemblage itself creates in its parts and as a whole an image of this interwoven system and linkages, drawing an alternative ecological and political landscape. It should be seen as a constant process and as an invitation to a dialogue about a common ecological future. This assemblage of stories, poetry, song, artwork and academic writings, speaks about alternative worldviews and traditional knowledge systems of the people of Northeast India and beyond.
This contribution is part of Alternative Worldviews.
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Table of contents
Introduction
Daniel Langthasa
Ecopolis
Bhagat Oinam
Revisiting animism: An insider’s story of the western discourse
Linda Chhakchhuak
Saving jhum, the crucible of life in Northeast mountains
Sonal Jain
The entropic forest-2020
Jayanta Kumar Sarma
Intrinsic wisdom for enduring nature
Andreas Weber
Sharing Life
The Ecopolitics of Reciprocity
On Writing Animism: Undoing Western Logic from Within
Mutuality and the Ecological Good
What is Animism?
Unbraining: Towards a Self-Decolonisation of the West
The Rules of Aliveness
Kinship: An Ethics of Increase
Ecopolitics: Renouncing Immortality
Rules for Behaving Well in the
Society of Being
Literature
Acknowledgments
Meghna Singh
Naming and citation as recognition
Aküm Longchari
The power of many stories
Kaustubh Deka
Framing the indigene in a frontier in flux: Responses from Northeast India
Uttam Bathari
River, rituals and communities
Ash Narain Roy
Revisiting indigenous epistemologies of North East India
Shrishtee Bajpai
A living hill: Reflections on animistic worldviews, stories, resistance and hope
Biographies