Growth, Environmentalism and Intersecting Inequalities in India
Ort:
Humboldtstraße 34, Seminarraum
Zeit:
27.02.2014 10:00 – 18:00
About the workshop
The twofold economic and ecological crisis of current capitalist growth regimes is global in its scale, threatening not only the survival of the planet, but also affecting non-western people in particular ways. As soon as the legacies of colonialism are taken into consideration, the question, however, arises whether the de-growth model of societal stabilisation is a viable alternative for all or only for the global north. How can the paradigm of de-growth avoid the pitfall of denying others the privileges ‘we’, the Westerners, have enjoyed for such a long time, and thus of re-inscribing asymmetric global power relations? The workshop addresses this problem via focussing on India. What are the peculiarities and contradictions of the Indian growth regime? What are its ecological opportunity costs as well as its implications for intersecting inequalities? To what extent and in which ways can subaltern resistances in India be framed in terms of an emancipatory politics of de-growth? In discussing these questions, the aim of the workshop is to set the de-growth approach into dialogue with non-western perspectives and experiences.
About the speakers
Nivedita Menon is professor for political theory at Jawaharlal Nehru University (Delhi) and author of Recovering Subversion: Feminist Politics Beyond the Law (2004) and Seeing Like a Feminist (2012).
Aditya Nigam is permanent fellow at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies (Delhi) and author of The Insurrection of Little Selves: Crisis of Secular-Nationalism in India (2006), After Utopia: Modernity, Socialism and the Postcolony (2010) and Desire Named Development (2011). Together they have written Power and Contestation: India Since 1989 (2007).
Registration
As the number of participants is limited and in order to receive the preparation material in due time, please register early.
Contact: Ilka Scheibe, [email protected]