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Fukushima Futures: Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape by Satsuki Takahashi
University of Washington Press 2023. 194 pp ISBN 978-0-295-75134-4
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Reviewed by James W. Seabrooke III
Environmental Futurism and an Ethnography of Fishermen in the Joban Seascape
Views of a sustainable future can become quickly obfuscated and disjointed for coastal communities when they are affected by life- and society-disrupting (…)
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Table of Contents - Mainstream, Vol 63 No 25-26, June 21 & June 28, 2025 (Double Issue)
21 June 2025* The "Ram"ification of Identity Assertion | Disha
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21 June 2025For those of us who grew up in former colonised countries, we learnt of respect for sovereignty of independent nations, respect for international law & international fora like the United Nations, witnessed emergence of the non-aligned movement, have memories of the anti-apartheid movement, of the movement against USA’s war on Vietnam, have been witnessing the clock turn backwards, a continuous crumbling down of principles and goals of equality for citizens and between nation states. (…)
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Landlessness in Rural India | Soma Marla
21 June 2025, by Soma S. MarlaEven 78 years after independence, land ownership in villages is highly skewed. Rich farmers continue to own vast tracts of land while the small farmers possess only a negligible portion. Share of agriculture being mere 16 percent of GDP, eventually 65 percent of rural population are sustaining livelihoods in near poverty. Unless crores of landless get land and democratically participate in production process, it may not be possible to rise agricultural production, productivity and (…)
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Why Israel’s wars and the Middle-East situation so deeply worrying? | Bharat Dogra
21 June 2025, by Bharat DograThe Israel-Iran war following the Israeli attack on Iran on June 13, 2025 as well as the continuing Israeli genocidal actions in Gaza have become the biggest source of concern for all those who value peace and human life, even though other very troubling conflicts involving Ukraine and Russia, the conflicts in Sudan and elsewhere are also continuing.
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Digital Panopticon: How Metadata Monitoring is Reshaping India
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Terror, Retaliation, and the Erosion of Dissent: Criminalisation of Enquiry after the Pahalgam Attack | Nagender Madavaram
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