[Reader-list] Gentle Reminder- चाय with चाचा: An Outsider’s View of Green Movements in India- 25th December, 2014 (Today); Time: 1830 @Paradigm Shift

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On 25 December 2014 at 10:25, Kabir Khan <kabirkhan1989 at gmail.com> wrote:

> *चाय with चाचा: An Outsider’s View of Green Movements in India
> <https://www.facebook.com/events/412377778927888/?ref=22&source=1>*
>
> The Indian green movement: an ‘environmentalism of the poor’ or a
> self-indulgent exercise in middle class privilege? Do green technologies
> really empower the poor or is this an urban activist’s fantasy? Do Indian
> farmers give a damn about sustainable rural livelihoods or do they aspire,
> rather, for the same middle class comforts that green activists themselves
> enjoy?
>
> To engage with these provocative questions, you're invited to "चाय with
> चाचा: An Outsider’s View of Green Movements in India" at Paradigm Shift
> where Trent Brown* will be drawing particularly on his doctoral research on
> organic farming movements in India, he will play with the idea of the
> ‘outsider,’ considering the efficacy of urban ‘outsiders’ in facilitating
> sustainable rural development.
>
> His central argument is that, irrespective of the technical merits of
> ecologically integrated agriculture, urban activists and NGO workers are
> significantly constrained in their ability to successfully promote the
> sustainable development, due to the the social and institutional
> environment they inhabit.
>
> Dr Trent Brown* teaches in sociology and Asian studies at the University of
> Wollongong, Australia. His doctoral thesis focused on sustainable
> agriculture organisations in India. He has since worked on a research
> project on the impacts of globalisation in India’s regional towns and has a
> wider interest in agrarian change and rural-urban relations. In the past,
> he has been an activist in a number of environmental and social justice
> campaigns in his hometown of Wollongong, Australia.
>
> *Date: 25th December, 2014*
> *Time: 18:30*
> *Venue: Paradigm Shift, 3rd- 4th Floor, 8, 80 Feet Road, Above, GKB
> Opticals, Kormangala 4th Block, Bangalore- 36*
>
> Do join us, vegan cookies and lemon tea shall be waiting for you.
>
> For more details you can either call +919663427315, email:
> paradigmshiftbangalore at gmail.com or visit our website: http://
> www.paradigmshift.org.in
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> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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