AID News for Jan 5 2004
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AID News for Mon Jan 5 2004
AID News for Mon Jan 5, 2004
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AID News for Mon Jan 5, 2004
Good morning everybody
Today's Headlines
1) Call for Submissions
2) In Gujarat
3) Some Interesting Links : Population
Today's News
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WISH YOU A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR
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1) Call for Submissions
We are looking for a diverse, international cross-section of women
writers for a global anthology on the politics of water. Confluence:
A Global Anthology of Women's Voices on the Politics of Water will
combine poetry, short fiction, testimonial accounts, and essays on
how water crosses various political boundaries be they national,
racial, ethnic, class, or gender. This anthology is a response to
the growing concern over the role of water in our increasingly
fragile environment, a concern that is sure to become more anxiety
prone in the 21st Century as debates over modernization and
development become more acrid. It will incorporate a range of issues
such as droughts and floods, waste management, dams and irrigation,
water pollution, water as a national or racial barrier, and water as
a feminine space over which the masculine process of
industrialization claims agency. The work will address water as
myth, metaphor, and material reality.
Guidelines for creative writing: Poetry submissions should not
exceed 5 pages. Flash fiction should be between100-500 words and
short fiction and memoirs between 2000-3000 words.
Submit to: Paola Corso, 133 8th Avenue #4E, Brooklyn, NY 11215
paola...@hotmail.com
Guidelines for essays: Essays should not exceed 5,000 words.
Submit to: Dr. Nandita Ghosh, 40-35 67h Street, #55, Woodside, NY 11377
nan_...@excite.com
DEADLINE: March 10, 2004
Co-editors:
Paola Corso is a 2003 New York Foundation for the Arts poetry
fellow. Her poetry and fiction are set in her native Pittsburgh
river town and explore the environmental impact of industrialization
from a working-class perspective. She and Dr. Anna Kay France
co-edited the book, International Women Playwrights. She currently
teaches a prose workshop at Fordham University.
Nandita Ghosh is an assistant professor at Farleigh Dickinson
University where she teaches courses on literature, culture, and the
environment. She was involved in mobilizing active support in the US
against the construction of the Maheshwar dam on the River Narmada
and has networked with members of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (a
grassroots movement in India protesting the environmental damage and
human displacement caused by damming the River Narmada), as well as
various human rights and environmental groups based in the US.
-- Contributed by manoj saranathan <amicus...@hotmail.com>
2) In Gujarat
a) Gujarat: Leaked White Paper on Dam Alternatives
A recently leaked government of Gujarat (GoG) WhitePaper shows that
its own advisors have been advocating many of the alternative water
management strategies that have been put suggested by the dam's
critics. If all these alternatives exist to both substantially
increase the supply and reduce the demand for water in Gujarat, why
was such a large, expensive and destructive project as the SSP
necessary? Why not stop now, given the conclusions of the White
Paper, and consider whether Gujarat's water needs can be met using
cheaper, less destructive and more immediate alternatives without
further increasing the height of the dam?
http://www.epw.org.in/showArticles.php?root=2003&leaf=12&filename=6634&filetype=html</a></p>
<p>b) Healing the orphans of Gujarat's riots</p>
<p>This special school, tucked away on the edge of the Arabian sea, is
where more than 100 Gujarati children are undergoing a unique
process of rehabilitation... Just 20 months ago, many of these
Muslim children saw their parents, grandparents and other relatives
burned or hacked to death in the western state. At least 1,000 died,
hundreds of families were made homeless and many children orphaned
in India's worst communal violence since independence.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3335559.stm
-- Contributed by Uma Asher <uxa...@psu.edu>
3) Some interesting links : Population
Population growth has been considered an issue in a number of
contemporary literature. There is another way to look at the
population growth. Some of the questions which could be raised are
- Is population growth, the cause of all the current social and
economical problems ?
- How much population is too much population ?
- How about the unsustainable lifestyles of the few in this world ?
(Some links on this issue will follow in the next AID news )
- One of the solution to the population ``problem'' is well known and
that is women's education and empowerment.
There are a few links, which support the questions raised
above. AIDers involved in study groups can use these wherever
possible :
- Article by Amartya Sen on Population :
http://finance.commerce.ubc.ca/~bhatta/ArticlesByAmartyaSen/amartya_sen_on_population.html
- http://zena.secureforum.com/Znet/ZMag/articles/albert3.htm
- An email thread about limiting population growth thru force or co-operative methods: http://csf.colorado.edu/forums/ppn/98/0096.html
-- Krishna Pagadala <krish...@yahoo.com>
Thats all for today
Sid
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