Friends, pl. see below and attached a letter to relevant institutions to withdraw from holding the 2023 World Congress of Anthropology at the Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India), termed by many local and national level adivasi activists as a 'factory school'. For further endorsements, pl. go to:https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfrxne92dO5z_NHCiC0jvfs-aJntqTam1pi... Copied here are Sharanya Nayak and Rajaraman Sundaresan, activists who originated the petition, in case anyone wants further details/clarifications. For this, pl. don't write back to full lists. thanks Ashish -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Fwd: Re: Request you to be the lead petitioners to IUAES, World Congress of Anthropology Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2020 20:20:37 +0530 From: Ashish Kothari <[email protected]> To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] CC: Meenal Tatpati <[email protected]>, Ashish Kothari <[email protected]>, Shruti Ajit <[email protected]> To: *1.**Prof Junji Koizumi, President of IUAES – **[email protected]* <mailto:[email protected]>** *2.**Prof Soumendra Mohan Patnaik, Vice-Chancellor Utkal University & Ex-President, Indian Anthropological Association - *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>/ [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>** *3.**Prof Deepak Kumar Behera, Vice-Chancellor, Sambalpur University - *[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> Dear Prof. Koizumi, Prof. Patnaik, and Prof. Behera, this is with regard to IUAES's World Congress of Anthropology 2023, proposed to be hosted by Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences (KISS) in Odisha, India. I would like to draw your kind attention to the attached petition urging you to dissociate from KISS, given its regressive record and orientation towards adivasi education, which disrespects the enormous wisdom and knowledge of these communities, and imposes homogenous, mainstream ideas. The petition gives further details of the seriously flawed and dangerous approach that KISS takes towards education. Additionally, it points to the ironic fact that this institution is funded by mining companies including those whose activities have threatened to displace adivasi populations from their traditional homes, apart from causing immense ecological devastation. As you will notice, the petition has been endorsed by some of India's most well-known and respected adivasi (and non-adivasi) scholars, activists, and organisations, several civil society and movement groups, as also a number of scholars and activists from outside India who have worked closely with adivasi communities in India. We hope to receive your considered response to this petition, thank you, sincerely, Ashish (Ashish Kothari) (on behalf of the signatories to the petition) -- LATEST! Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary (thepluriverse.org) andwww.globaltapestryofalternatives.org Ashish Kothari Kalpavriksh Apt 5 Shree Datta Krupa 908 Deccan Gymkhana Pune 411004, India Tel: 91-20-25654239; 91-20-25675450 http://kalpavriksh.org www.vikalpsangam.org www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org www.iccaconsortium.org www.acknowlej.org http://ashishkothari51.blogspot.in/ Twitter: @chikikothari