Category Archives: development studies
shifting the lens…
When you ACTUALLY truly shift the lens of benefit to look at issues of sustainable livelihoods, accessible democratic practices and sharing of resources with future generations…… THEN what would we think of a progress? I keep thinking of the senior citizen who asked about why we were not improving our (US) railways – and why we always [...]
Oxford Internet Institute – Civil Society Practitioners Programme
Oxford Internet Institute – Civil Society Practitioners Programme
Invitation to apply
The Oxford Internet Institute (University of Oxford) invites applications from the global South to fill two places in its Civil Society Practitioners Programme.
This visitor programme is intended for Civil Society Practitioners of distinction or outstanding promise who wish to visit the Institute for a [...]
“staging authenticities” by itineraries that never take us “home”?
what can I say?
whose voices am I consuming as I say
why can I not say
when you can
but yet you want their authentic voices
what I tell you cannot be trusted
that’s what you say
as if you had heard the authentic
yourself
then why do you need me to reveal it to you
if you know what it should [...]
Protected: Looking at connections – livestock, small ruminant, large ruminant, women, dalits…
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
evidence – and evidence of what and for who?
so what is the nature of evidence in the academe – who is required to provide what evidence and why…
how may you be made ready to hear the voice(s) you ask me/us to reveal to you?
why do you want us to reveal that “authentic” voice to you?
who decided that if I put something in quotes it becomes his authentic voice?
how may you be made ready to hear the voices you think you will hear [...]
Protected: journeying back to Rajavolu…
There is no excerpt because this is a protected post.
For Phyllis and Candice – so we can continue
Grandmother of the heights
why dont we ask this when you walk into a levi stores or a lifestyle mall?
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