Tuesday, 22 January 2008
Dear Friends,
Greetings !
Thanks a lot for your
cooperation in the
process of CACIM Forum Fellowship. This was the first round of
Fellowships
which we instituted in this field. It was a pleasure to have such a
wide range
of proposals in response to the announcement. It was very tough for us
to
short-list three Fellows out of an interesting pool of proposals and we
hope
the selections we have made have done justice to this diversity.
Inspite of
some very good quality of applications we have not been able to
accommodate
them in this round due to the limited resources we had; however, we do
hope to
make space for more themes and people in the next round of the
Fellowships. We
will be announcing the second round of Fellowships sometime again in
July-August 2008.
This years Fellowships are
being awarded to
these three people :
MAMATA
DASH
based in New Delhi is a Steering Committee Member of National Forum of
Forest People
and Forest Workers (NFFPFW) working for protection of resources and
livelihoods
of forest dwellers in India and active member of Kashipur Solidarity Group engaged
in human
rights issues and contributing to the movements on the ground in
various ways.
Her proposed study is placed in the present Indian context where the
State is
facilitating the capitalist agenda in new packages and the voices of
resistance
are mounting high on many quarters. The broad objective is to enquire
the NATURE
AND EXTENT OF ENGAGEMENT IN THE PROCESS OF WSF BY VARIOUS CATEGORIES OF
SOCIAL
GROUPS ACROSS THE COUNTRY. The study would also attempt to
understand the
overall dynamics of the WSF and the responses it has got so far in the
socio-political framework. It will also critically analyze the concept
of open
space the WSF claims to have provided and the impact on
socio-political
movements and processes in the region. This research will focus largely
on
documenting how various groups have viewed the process of the WSF,
their
experiences in participating and not participating in it, how it has
helped in
furthering their causes and their expectations from such a vast Forum.
SUSANA BARRIA, an intern with Focus on the Global South, has interned
and
participated actively with WSF processes in Porto Alegre, Barcelona, Geneva, Karachi, and India.
Her study would highlight the MAJOR CONTROVERSIES SURROUNDING THE
WSF 2004
PROCESS IN INDIA AS WELL AS THE MUMBAI EVENT AND AFTER. Her study
would aim
to engage with the criticisms of the process which could be
constructive for
the continuation of the WSF process in India.
MAYUR CHETIA,
pursuing M Phil in modern Indian history from Delhi University
would like to study WSF AND THE INDIAN
LEFT : RESPONSES AND EFFECTS. Despite
variations of attitudes of the various sections of Left in India,
one thing is certain all of them have accepted WSF as a great force,
and it
is not altogether possible to ignore it. How far and in what terms the
new
politics of the WSF made an impact on the Indian left,
(at individual level, at party level and the
Indian left politics as a whole) would constitute a part of the
research
question. The research would also try to understand and document the
diverse
ways through which the Indian Left tried to come to terms with the WSF.
The
study would document the criticisms and suggestions made by the Left on
WSF and
would try to explore how far, (if any), it made an impact on the
politics of
the WSF itself. In other words, how far the specific configuration of
the
Indian left shaped the WSF in India.
We congratulate
the winners of this year CACIMs Forum Fellowship and thank everybody
for their
cooperation in this process. Keep looking for more details on www.cacim.net / www.openspaceforum.net.
Thanks again !
Madhuresh
CACIM, New Delhi
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