[Bilimsel Haber] Culture Matters: Understanding Development From Perspectives of Marginal Communities

[Sule Tarakcioglu]

*Culture Matters: Understanding Development From Perspectives of
Marginal Communities*

	

	

	
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Date: 13th-15th October, 2006.

Venue: Sanskriti Kendra, New Delhi

The conference seeks to capitalize upon a growing interest in issues
such as how does culture matter to marginal communities and how culture
enables the process of self-empowerment among marginal communities.
Self-empowerment is considered crucial for understanding and developing
liberative public action policies of change and progress. If development
is understood as enabling and facilitating the capacities of marginal
communities then policies of governance need to be based on ethical
values and principles fostering plurality, diversity, equity, democratic
participation, sustainable development and dignity. However, in
mainstream development thinking marginal communities have appeared only
as oppressed and poor. In this context the all-important question is why
do marginal communities always appear only as oppressed and poor in
mainstream development practices? Is it the lack of innovative
indicators only, or the lack of a perspective? But from whose
perspective to understand whom?

The conference is being organized by Deshkal Society, India with the
support of Indira Gandhi National Centre For Arts (IGNCA), Sanskriti
Pratisthan, Bhasa Research Centre, Asian Development Research Institute
(ADRI).

Research papers of publishable quality focusing on the above themes are
invited form young and established scholars which will be chosen for
presentation and intensive discussion in the conference. Authors are
invited to submit abstracts (in English) of no more than 500 words as
well as academic curriculum vitae.

	Arvind Mishra
Coorindator
329 SFS Flats, Mukherjee Nagar
Delhi-110009
India

Ph:91-11-27654895
Tele Fax: 91-11-27655336
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Visit the website at http://www.deshkalindia.com/conference/