News from CED, December 2005
NEWS FROM CED: DECEMBER 2005
Here's wishing you a Merry
Christmas, a joyous & prosperous New Year! This is the year's last
newsletter ....
ONE MORE LAUNCH FROM CED
This time we are pleased to announce the launch of a
twenty-four page backgrounder, which will focus on a specific issue each month.
We are launching with issue - Coastal Regulation Zone(CRZ). These backgrounders
are available in Tamil and English. For a copy please email nalini@doccentre.net
FILMS
NAMMA KADALKARAI, NAMMA URIMAI (Our Coast, Our Right)
Tamil, 54 mins, PAL VCD Colour
A film explaining the Coastal Regulation Zone, and the economics and politics of
its implementation from the point of view of the Local Communities. This
film is aimed to educate local communities. It is a part of the series of AV
materials on issues related to Tsunami. The film is accompanied by the above
mentioned backgrounder in Tamil that provides more references to other
information on CRZ. The main aim is to promote the right to information, and
people’s right to know, determine and participate in their own development
particularly their re-development/rehabilitation.
LANDSCAPE FOR RAINWATER
Duration 26 mins - Produced by Anouchka Kine and A&D
A huge and beautiful archaeological site in Hampi, Karnataka, shows aspects of
Indian cities in late 15th early 16th centuries, it shows ruins of tanks,
water channels and aqueduct shows how Indian people succeeded in using a passive
and complex system so that rainwater was sufficient for all their water needs.
For copies of the film please e-mail us at: cedban@doccentre.net
or cedbom@doccentre.net
RDC WEBSITE
Do visit our website on issues related to Tsunami and the
rehabilitation and reconstruction process. It also looks at livelihood issues in
and around the affected areas in South India. This website is part of a project
that we are working on, Reconstruction for Development, in conjunction with A
& D, Praxis and ISED. So log on to www.rdc.net.in
DIGITISATION OF ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
We just wanted to update you about the 'behind the scenes'
work that we have been doing. One year through the digitisation process of
the archives of Newspaper Clippings, Journals and Newsletters, we have come
close to digitising 46000 articles on issues ranging from Sustainable
Built Environment, Development & Social Change, Education, Localization
& Local Markets, New Economics, NGOs and Voluntary Action, Urban Issues,
Adivasis and Forest Rights, Media & Social Change, Gender - Theories,
Violence against Women, Women & Work, Labour policies & Migration,
Secularism and more ...
CEDs COMPILATIONS
Just to remind you of all our other monthly outputs and
the great discounts that you can get when you subscribe to more than one. We
have Legal Rights, Critical Concerns, Habitat and Disasters. All are
important as well as informative and produced in a way that is easy for you to
keep and refer to. For subscription and more details check
here
FROM GOVINDPUR TO ANANTPUR
From 6 to 9 December, CED participated in the Govindpur IV
conference, which was held at the RDT Ecology Centre in Anantpur. It was very
interesting for all of us to be a part of this conference as it was done using
'Open Space Technology(OST)'. It proved to be a very interesting and stimulating
time for all and it was nice to meet old friends and make new ones.
IN THE LIBRARY
New additions to the library this month are:
Films
Hands On 1-Water Ways
Fate Worse Than Floods
Water-Every Drop Counts
Thar:Secrets Of The Desert
Harvest Of Rain
Water Wars I, II & III
Books
Unravelling Bhakra-Assessing the Temple of Resurgent India by Shripad
Dharmadhikary. Price:Individual Rs. 150/- & Institution Rs. 300/- (write to us
for copies)
Manifesto for Making Another World Possible! by Bovy, Yannick
Alternative Economic Survey, India 2004-2005 - Disequalising Growth by Chaudhary,
Akhilesh and Deshpande, Anjali
Their Own - A Socio-Legal Investigation of Inter-Country Adoption in India by
Dhanda, Amita and Ramaswamy.
Dalits in Dravidian Land - Frontline Reports on Anti-Dalit Violence in Tamil
Nadu (1995-2004) by Viswanathan, S.
In Search of an Identity - An Ethnographic Study of the Siddis in Karnataka by
Prasad, Kiran Kamal
Reports
The National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 by Ministry of Law and Justice
Breastfeeding - A Reproductive Health and Rights Issue by Menon, Lakshmi and
Amin, Sarah
First Peoples Education Congress on Science Communication by Peoples Council of
Education
Assuring Livelihoods and Empowering Poor - A Case for National Rural Employment
Guarantee Act, National Centre for Advocacy Studies.
Streamlining the Agricultural Supply Chain Sivakumar, S.
The Size and Growth of Agribusinss Sector in India by Ramaswamy, Bharat and
Singh, J B
Unshackling Rural Markets Gopalkrishnan, R
Young People and Gendered Media Messages by The International clearing House.
Over 25 films, 40 books and 10 reports have been added to
the library. Check the full list of here
Critical Concerns
