From all the jargon to the real simple deal
I can’t believe that I got sucked into all the theories of adaptive governance and basically resilience thinking which I was nearly so sick of in the past few weeks. I can’t deny that I loved delving into it- everything began to make more sense- the problems and the solutions, in theory it all sounded so perfect that I wanted to think more and more and SOME MORE, just like a scientist.
I forgot where I had really started. Then Henrik, who could potentially be my supervisor for the thesis said to me, think of the communities and giving them their voice as a side project. The more powerful will always try to impose their worldviews about what they think should be “development” and “growth”. It doesn’t necessarily imply sustainability. Thank God for that piece of advise. I got reminded of why I actually joined my master’s programme. It used to give me me sleepless nights before I got here, to think of how easily exploitable were natural resource rich areas and communities in India, in the name of development, given the current government’s goals for a “Developed India”. By studying about social ecological systems and ways of governing them, I hoped to have a slightly more independent ground and understanding to start with.