Wise Sayings from an ‘ecosystem community’: Reflections from a search for challenging neoliberal worldviews on nature

Kurien, John (2020) Wise Sayings from an ‘ecosystem community’: Reflections from a search for challenging neoliberal worldviews on nature. In: Reframing the Environment Resources, Risk and Resistance in Neoliberal India. Taylor & Francis, London, pp. 204-213.

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Abstract

The greatest sense of estrangement we face today as humans is our increasing lack of connectedness with Nature as a whole. Though the resources and processes in Nature provide for our benefi t and well- being, we are being increasingly alienated from them. Despite this, we contend that we can control and dominate these processes and resources, and if need be, can replace them with products of human ingenuity and technology. This mentality is in large part the result of our minds being commandeered by the dominant neoliberal ideology of our times.

Item Type:	Book Section
Authors:	Kurien, John
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Community development
Subjects:	Social sciences
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Development
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/2434
Publisher URL:	https://doi.org/10.4324/9780367553166

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