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Sign the Petition requesting The Honble Minister of State for Environment
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environmental clearances for mining activities in Goa
http://goanvoice.org.uk/miningpetition.php
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Symposium at Goa University on
Impressions of Goa: Mainstream, Margins and Media
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Goa Union of Journalists and Centre for the Study of Social
Exclusion and Inclusive Policy, Goa University are jointly organizing
a Symposium on Impressions of Goa: Mainstream, Margins and
Media on Wednesday, 31 March, 2010.
The distinguished speakers of the symposium include Shambhu Bhau
Bandekar, writer and former deputy speaker, Goa Assembly;
Dadu Mandrekar, writer, dalit activist and editor, Prajasttak;
Prakash Kamat, special correspondent, the Hindu and president,
GUJ; and Frederick Noronha, Independent journalist, writer and
co-founder, Bytes for All.
The session will be chaired by Prof. AV Afonso, coordinator,
CSSEIP and dean, faculty of social sciences, GU. The event
will take place at the University Conference Hall, Administrative
Building, Goa University from 3 to 5 p.m.
One of the objectives of the symposium is to provide an interface
between media, academics and civil society on questions related to
social exclusion, democracy and media. This is also an attempt to
analyse media discourse and its relation to social processes in Goa.
Media with its many versions has become the main site for the
production of images, impressions and information of our time. In a
democracy, media also becomes an active site of contestation and
negotiations between different social, political and economic
interests, between the mainstream of the society and the voices from
the margins.
Media, as an institution of mediation, mirrors social and political
reality and at the same time can filter, screen and manage images
and reality.
The symposium will address the questions such as these: How
mainstream and margins can be characterized in the context of Goa?
What are the dominant images and stereotypes related to Goa ?
What are the main cultural frames of imaging Goa including tourism,
development, history, otherness and nostalgia ? How do media
receive, endorse, amend and challenge mainstream images and
impressions? What are the alternative channels of articulation of
marginal voices and what is their relationship with mainstream
in Goa?
Ishwar Singh, Prakash Kamat,
Lecturer-cum-Assistant Director, President,
CSSEIP, Goa University, Goa. Goa Union of Journalists, Goa.
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Press Release from Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion
and Inclusive Policy (CSSEIP) [email protected]
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