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According to Ian Scoones (2016: n.p.) for example: transformation to sustainability and development is mostly about politics . . . . It means hav- ing searching debates about visions and directions, confronting incumbent power head on, and creating a transformative politics, rooted in alliances between players — across states, businesses, civil society and more. Transformations to sustainability will not emerge from goals and targets, but fundamental political change, combined with new thinking and wide mobilisation.
After Development: Surplus Population and the Politics of Entitlement
Tania Murray Li
The fact is that there is no meaningful distinction to be made between “biological” and “behavioral.”
This View of Life
David Sloan Wilson
A 'nation' that needs a 'national' language or a 'link' language to connect its various 'national' regions 67 years after it was born is more an empire than a nation. Any radical rethinking on this association needs to start from acknowledging that fundamental reality, only then will democracy start making any sense to the vast majority of the disempowered, non-sanskritic masses.
The Nauseating Language Politics of the Indian State
Written Kuffir
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