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From: Arunima G <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sep 26, 2007 10:08 AM
Subject: Re: {greenyouth} Re: Visit of Sugathakumari teacher at Athirappilly
and Vazhachal
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]On 9/25/07, Ranjit Ranjit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4IdHsY_yYc > > SEE how these environmentalists are eager to construct "tradition" without > even making an attemt to address the issues of this very tradition that > imprison "people"... they want to get rid of it,break away from the barriers > of casteist villages.. but our 'secular' environmenatlsts will not let them > ... confine to kavu, these romantic jaivagramams imagine ethnic slavery > Just out of interest - in response to the above, plus the savarna "green" ploy argument raised in an earlier mail- for many years - particularly the '80s, early '90s there was an interesting conjunction between the kerala environmentalists and the RSS because of a commonality over certain ideas about constituting environmental "traditions", kerala tanima etc- e.g. kavus, "peaceful co-existence" of undisturbed nature (read trees, snakes, tribals) and so on. Some of these kinds of ideas are available within the rhetoric of "people's struggles" too. Question is where do they depart from each other and what is the politics of one's own positioning vis -a-visthese? > > -- G. Arunima Associate Professor Women's Studies Programme School of Social Sciences Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi 110067 Tel: 01126704178 (dir) 01126704166(off) Email:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
