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Foresters and New Orientations to Survival |
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Susan Visvanathan |
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This article locates the greening debates, so central to peoples’ survival, around the question of
community participation at two levels. The first is voluntary associations such as Annamalai
Reforestation Society, and Kadu Siva Plantation, which use secular and sacred as comfortable
locations for activist work. What is interesting is that activism is a globalized phenomenon, and
the idea of cosmos and oikos actually interweave with regard to community participation. This
article also looks at the ways in which there may be vested interests which conflict over tourism,
pilgrimage and ecology, resulting finally in a court case, that goes up to the Supreme Court,
where the debates are not conclusively stated, but may be analysed in a time-bound way by
sociologists, as parameters for thinking about specific social issues. |
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