<div dir="ltr"><div>Dear Rosalyn, <br></div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your talk. In response to your question about similar ideas being explored in India, I would like to share the work of a friend and amazing naturalist, Godwin Vasanth Bosco, who worked for nine years in the Shola regions of the Nilgiris in South India and in 2019 came out with a book called "Voice of a Sentient Highland". There is a startling correspondence between what you were talking about and what he talks about - Vasanth has come to it through his own relationship with the mountains (and shola) he knows best.</div><div></div><div><br></div><div>Technical reasons also prevented me from asking the couple of questions I wanted, so I take this opportunity to do so - <br></div><div>I was most intrigued by the idea that - and I hope I got it right - climate change will not prove to be as disastrous for the small, organic farmer as for industrial agro-business. Have I got it right, and if yes, could you say more about that? <br></div><div>Also, I am sceptical of reading too much into ritual as a means of signifying (or inculcating) respect/love. Here in India symbol and actuality are kept remorselessly apart. Mainstream Hinduism still - indeed, increasingly - pays attention to the rituals that worship snakes, trees, forests, lakes, spring, harvest, etc.etc., even as, as a society, we systematically lop away at forests, dynamite sacred mountains and rivers, etc.etc. Thoughts? <br></div><div><br></div><div>Incidentally, I studied mainstream Euro-American culture for my dissertation in Anthropology many years ago in order to study the eye/I through which so much of the rest of the world is perceived - The divorce between nature/culture, self/society, thought/emotion, body/mind seems to lie at the very heart of this way of perception. Unfortunately however, these dichotomies are now well represented in thinking - scholarly and otherwise - all over the world (Protestantism appears to be just one of the many religions that sit well with our current economic system!). <br></div><div><br></div><div>Looking forward to continued discussion - <br></div><div><br></div><div>best, <br></div><div>sonali <br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, 3 Feb 2021 at 00:54, Bold, Rosalyn <<a href="mailto:r.bold@ucl.ac.uk">r.bold@ucl.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>Thanks very much everyone, I enjoyed today.</div>
<div>I may have given the wrong email address! You can contact me here at <a href="mailto:r.bold@ucl.ac.uk" target="_blank">r.bold@ucl.ac.uk</a>. I am eager to develop collaborations with colleagues studying the relevance of these ideas in india- feel free to get in touch!</div>
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<div>For those who missed today's talk by anthropologist Dr. Rosalyn Bold in the series from Teachers Against the Climate Crisis (TACC), or those who want to revisit what was a really interesting session, here is the link to the youtube video. </div>
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<div style="direction:ltr;font-family:inherit"><span style="font-family:inherit;font-weight:bold">Indigenous and non-western understandings of climate change: Latin American challenges to colonial and extractivist discourses</span></div>
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