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From: Yamini Srikanth <yaminisrikanth193@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 at 14:00
Subject: Request to Circulate: What is Environmental Justice in India?
To: <meet.yeti@xxxxxxxxx>
The term Environmental justice may likely conjure images of concerned
people or nations trying to reconcile with nature, to undo the damage, or
at least bring awareness towards limiting our current actions that
contribute to the wreckage. While that could be a potential topic of
discussion, the workshop offers several other lanes of thought on this
matter that are highly relevant in today's world. Most of us have been
educated on how nature works systemically - whether it be animals and their
interactions or nitrogen cycles or the water cycles. As fascinating and
essential as these are to our systems of education, we often tend to look
past the practical elements associated with these.
What are the various elements that led to the current degrading ecological
and climatic conditions? If one of the elements was the overuse of fossil
fuels, what led us to use them? Where did they first emerge from? There is
no one defining moment in history that when changed, could possibly have
led to a better condition today. The historical, political and structural
factors of our existence must also be taken into account as we go about
delving deeper in our chain of thought regarding the environmental issues
we are currently facing.
How would an environmental crisis affect the world exactly? We sure do have
an outline in our minds, but how does it really impact the different parts
of the world? What are the different kinds of impacts we would face based
on our location or our social and financial standing, both as an individual
and as a country? Particularly, in the context of India, caste is one
aspect that also tends to define our individual identities (undesirably so)
alongside others, thereby once again diversifying the impacts.
In this workshop, we will explore the above mentioned topics, while also
bringing in new and relevant ones as we bring our heads together to think
deeply about environmental justice in our country. The use of theatre and
art will help free us from our inhibitions, bringing us closer together as
a group to share and express our lived experiences. This will help us
realise how these experiences have shaped our outlooks and additionally,
what we perceive as ideal solutions.
In the process, we will use the pedagogy of the oppressed, by Paulo Freire
and the theatre of the oppressed by Augusto Boal. We will dive deep, think
critically with the use of case studies and challenge all assumptions in
order to come up with creative solutions. The workshop will enable you to
challenge your own beliefs in a constructive manner and break down
situations into simpler understandings of who has power and what may have
led you down a certain point.
The workshop will take place at the *Shoonya Mari Arts organisation,
Doddamavalli *on the *13th and 14th of August* from 10:00 am - 1:00pm,
2:30pm - 4:30 pm on both days. Catered lunch will be arranged for the lunch
break between 1:00 pm and 2:30 pm.
This is a paid workshop - Rs. 500 per person. (For those who require a fee
waiver, do mail us at the mail IDs mentioned at the end.)
Payment details will be sent in a few days upon signing up.
Register Now!
(https://forms.gle/srDsAnfZTaCgNNX4A)
First 15 registrations will be accepted.
Participatory certificates will be awarded to participants who attend all
sessions.
For queries, contact:
Yamini Srikanth (He/they) - yamini.srikanth18ug@xxxxxxxxxx
Or Ananya Katikeneni (She/her) - ananya.katikeneni21ug@xxxxxxxxxx