Talking Environment

Jahanbegloo, Ramin; Shiva, Vandana

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“…Responding to intense pressures both within and outside these institutions, many are throwing off the shackles of neutrality to become sites of social and ecological transformation (e.g. Janes & Sandell, 2019;Phillips, 2011). Museums are opening up pedagogical spaces of counter-narrative, designing formal and non-formal education activities and informal learning spaces to enable people to reflect, to challenge, to speak out, to uncover and to reimagine our relationship with the planet and each other.…”

Section: Museums Ideological and Epistemological Complicitiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They provide us, as unborn children, with our very first environment -water [...] with this special place in the order of things come responsibilities [...] In some ceremonies, women speak for water. (p. 3) Vandana Shiva's (Jahanbegloo & Shiva, 2013) ecofeminist theory similarly argues that there is a "relationship between women's liberation and a struggle for the liberation of life on earth" (p. 49). Thus, museums' efforts to confront the Anthropocene and its related ideologies and injustices also make visible their own legacies of erasure and upholding of the Eurocentric status quo.…”

Section: Undoing Colonial Legaciesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Museums also contribute to lifelong learning by providing space for "dangerous conversations", be that in the form of re-languaging exhibitions in ways that call attention to the role of the oil industry or by providing spaces where people can come together to question colonialism and its impact on people, the environment, and our entire knowledge system. To borrow from Jahanbegloo and Shiva (2013), they allow us to both read and see "connections where capitalist patriarchy and its warrior science are engaged in disconnecting and dissecting" the living whole that makes up our world (p. 3).…”

Section: Final Thoughts On Museums As Sites Of Lifelong Learningmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Museums, Socio-Ecological Thinking, and Activist Pedagogies of Imagination

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This article explores the complex, “contact zone” nature of museums within the context of the current environmental crisis threatening our planet. Historically and even today, museums have engaged in a practice of “monocultural” thinking which is mired in a pretext to neutrality that has advanced the patriarchal capitalist neoliberal status quo and maintained a vision of a human/non-human binary of power, dominance, and control. However, there is also growing evidence that museums are shifting their approaches. Focusing on examples from Canada, we discuss how museums are using exhibitions and pedagogical and community outreach strategies to render visible deeply problematic and global “technofossil” practices, encourage activism through aesthetic engagement, encourage dialogue between community and industry as well as engage in imaginative decolonising initiatives that remap our understandings of who we are and where we need to go. We argue that in taking up environmental issues in politically intentional ways, museums create “oppositional views” that act as pedagogical sites of resistance.

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Section: Museums Ideological and Epistemological Complicitiesmentioning

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Section: Undoing Colonial Legaciesmentioning

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“…All ecological societies of forest-dwellers and peasants, whose life is organized on the principle of sustainability and the reproduction of life in all its richness, also embody the feminine principle." (Jahanbegloo, 2013) Shiva also states that the patriarchal development and domineering economic measures strip women of their traditional land-use rights and disrupt the living partnership between women and Nature. Along with causing such havoc, globalization"s market fundamentalism is responsible for the oppression and victimization of women, dalits, tribals, and minorities.…”

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Reflections on the Current Ecological Crisis and Reactions Through Art

Pandey¹

2020

EPRA

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The varied constituents of Indian society differ enormously among themselves in their access to the resources of the earth. Today, we dwell in the ‘age of ecological arrogance’. Women and Nature have both undergone exploitation. This paper deliberates on the present ecological scenario giving insights from important writers. It further discusses how ecological disturbance instigated into an art practice. Giving examples, it reflects on the practices of some important contemporary ecological artists of India. KEYWORDS: Ecology, Environment, Ecological Art, Eco-Artists

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“…Biotech opponents attribute the majority of these suicides to the monopolization of the cotton seed sector. Suspected links surfaced 3 years before the seed’s commercialization by Monsanto (Shiva, 2011b ; 2013a ; Shiva et al 1999 ; Stone, 2010a ; 2011b ; 2013c ; 2013d ; 2014b ; Jahnbegloo, 2013 ). They characterize this distressing phenomenon as ‘genocide’, averring that such suicides were unheard of prior to the commodification.…”

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Farmer-suicide in India: debating the role of biotechnology

Thomas

Tavernier

2017

Life Sci Soc Policy

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Indian Biotech opponents have attributed the increase of suicides to the monopolization of GM seeds, centering on patent control, application of terminator technology, marketing strategy, and increased production costs. The contentions of the biotech opponents, however, have been criticized for a lack of transparency in their modus operandi i.e. the use of methodology in their argumentation. The fact is, however, that with the intention of getting the attention of those capable of determining the future of GM cotton in India, opponents resorted to generating controversies. Therefore, this article will review and evaluate the multifaceted contentions of both opponents and defenders. Although the association between seed monopolization and farmer-suicide is debatable, we will show that there is a link between the economic factors associated with Bt. cultivation and farmer suicide. The underlying thesis of biotech opponents becomes all the more significant when analysed vis-à-vis the contention of the globalization critics that there has been a political and economic marginalization of the Indian farmers. Their accusation assumes significance in the context of a fragile democracy like India where market forces are accorded precedence over farmers’ needs until election time.

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Talking Environment

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Museums, Socio-Ecological Thinking, and Activist Pedagogies of Imagination

Museums, Socio-Ecological Thinking, and Activist Pedagogies of Imagination

Reflections on the Current Ecological Crisis and Reactions Through Art

Farmer-suicide in India: debating the role of biotechnology

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