In this extended episode, Local Bites interviews scholar/activist, Ashish Kothari about his book, Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India, co-authored by Aseem Shrivastava. During the first half of the interview, Kothari provides a sobering account of the social and environmental impacts of globalized development in India, arguing persuasively that the costs outweigh the benefits, and calling into questions a number of taken-for-granted assumptions about "economic growth", "progress", and the so-called inevitability of urbanization. In the second half (28:24), Kothari highlights a diverse range of localist alternatives taking place in communities throughout India, forerunners to what he calls ‘radical ecological democracy’, that can "take us all to higher levels of well-being, while sustaining the earth and creating greater equity."
Local Alternatives to Globalized Development: A View from India
By Brian Emerson, originally published by Local Bites
February 24, 2014
Tags: globalization, India, local economies
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