Educação em ciências no “portal covid-19”: problematizando a relação humano-natureza por meio da história e da filosofia da ciência

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 8-16
Author(s):  
Cristiano Moura
Keyword(s):  
Arundhati Roy

A crise sanitária e humanitária causada pela covid-19 levou a uma ruptura profunda nas formas com as quais estávamos acostumados a viver nas últimas décadas. Provavelmente o maior movimento de confinamento a que assistimos em escala mundial nos últimos tempos trouxe também um repensar das estruturas que sustentam esse mundo. O “portal covid-19”, conforme afirmado por Arundhati Roy, é uma forma de cunhar este momento trágico e, ao mesmo tempo, uma possibilidade de fazer com que, a partir dele, percebamos a necessidade de pressionar por novos rumos para a sociedade. Partindo da observação de que crises sanitárias como esta estão ligadas a uma relação humano-natureza extremamente desequilibrada, aponto que essa relação é historicamente desequilibrada, e não apenas na atualidade. Assim, proponho que a utilização da história e filosofia da ciência no ensino de ciências, se voltada para discutir essa temática, pode ser um caminho para problematizar a relação humano-natureza, de forma que possamos construir um futuro em que essa relação alcance um patamar de maior equilíbrio.

The Poetics and Politics of Migration: A Study of Selected Works of Hindi Dalit and Tribal Women Poets

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 151-159
Author(s):  
Anjali Singh
Keyword(s):  
Women Poets ◽  
Literary Representations ◽  
Indian Government ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
Left Behind ◽  
Tribal Women ◽  
Metropolitan Cities ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dalit Women ◽  
Marginalized Women

According to the social activist and renowned author Arundhati Roy, almost 30 million people have been displaced since 1990 due to dam and development projects undertaken by the Indian government. The new economic reform policies have triggered a massive movement of landless workers towards nearby towns and suburbs resulting in the mushrooming of slums on the outskirts of metropolitan cities with an intimidating promptness. The present dismal scenario proves the fact that the global India is heading towards a clean cleavage. There is an ongoing parallel life on the outskirts of the thriving city as in the middle of it. The thrust of this article is to deliberate on the growing discontent among the marginalized women as represented by themselves and understand the nuances of living on the periphery. They have reiterated their demands for Jal (water), Jungle (Forest) and Zameen (Land) with renewed vigour and lash out at the anti-people policies with double ferocity. The new crop of Dalit and tribal women writers have put their foot down and refused to accept the dark holes as home. They have expressed themselves through the genre of poetry and commented on the inhuman living conditions they are subjected to. Hence, under the light of given circumstances, this article endeavours to engage with the selected works of post-1990s Hindi Dalit women poets and study the rise of political consciousness in their literary representations. The selected works have autobiographical element or ‘testimonies’ as described by Arun Prabha Mukherjee adding depth to the poems. The trauma of leaving one’s village comes alive in the following lines from the poem Humne Chode Diye Hai Gaon (We Have Left Our Villages) by Poonam Tushamed (2017b), ‘We Have left our villages/and left behind that well, pond, temple and chaupal’.

scholarly journals PERGOLAKAN IDEOLOGI DALAM NOVEL TERJEMAHAN YANG MAHA KECIL KARYA ARUNDHATI ROY: KAJIAN HEGEMONI GRAMSCI

Kandai ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 257
Author(s):  
M. Oktavia Vidiyanti
Keyword(s):  
Antonio Gramsci ◽  
Arundhati Roy

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengungkap dan mendeskripsikan formasi ideologi dalam novel terjemahan Yang Maha Kecil karya Arundhati Roy,serta melihat hubungannya dengan ideologi pengarang dengan menggunakan kajian teori hegemoni yang digagas Antonio Gramsci. Tinjauan teori hegemoni Gramsci dalam penelitian ini melihat praktik hegemoni ideologi dalam Yang Maha Kecil melalui negosiasi ideologi yang dilakukan pengarang sebagai aparatur hegemoni. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode kualitatif melalui pendekatan deskriptif dan pemahaman arti secara mendalam. Penelitian ini menghasilkan temuan berupa teridentifikasinya sejumlah ideologi, yaitu ideologi (1) ultraortodoks (2) komunis, (3) anglofilia, (4) rasialisme, dan (5) patriarki. Adapun ideologi yang dinegosiasi ditunjukkan oleh ideologi komunisme dan ultraortodoks. Simpulan dari penelitian ini adalah adanya pertentangan dalam cara pandang pengarang tentang ideologi komunis dan ultraortodoks yang dinegosiasikan. Dalam hal ini, pengarang melihat bahwa ideologi komunis maupun ideologi ultraortodoks (agama) yang mengajarkan kesetaraan manusia secara sosial maupun di mata Tuhan, ternyata sama sekali tidak mengubah sistem pembedaan manusia.

scholarly journals Intermingling of History and Politics in The God of Small Things

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 138
Author(s):  
Md. Abdul Momen Sarker ◽  
Md. Mominur Rahman
Keyword(s):  
The Political ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Indian Culture ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
Political Condition ◽  
The World ◽  
History Of ◽  
Democratic Election ◽  
Small Things ◽  
First Time

Suzanna Arundhati Roy is a post-modern sub-continental writer famous for her first novel The God of Small Things. This novel tells us the story of Ammu who is the mother of Rahel and Estha. Through the story of Ammu, the novel depicts the socio-political condition of Kerala from the late 1960s and early 1990s. The novel is about Indian culture and Hinduism is the main religion of India. One of the protagonists of this novel, Velutha, is from a low-caste community representing the dalit caste. Apart from those, between the late 1960s and early 1990s, a lot of movements took place in the history of Kerala. The Naxalites Movement is imperative amid them. Kerala is the place where communism was established for the first time in the history of the world through democratic election. Some vital issues of feminism have been brought into focus through the portrayal of the character, Ammu. In a word, this paper tends to show how Arundhati Roy has successfully manifested the multifarious as well as simultaneous influences of politics in the context of history and how those affected the lives of the marginalized. Overall, it would minutely show how historical incidents and political ups and downs go hand in hand during the political upheavals of a state.

Telling the Traumas of History

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joanne Lipson Freed
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Distortions ◽  
Leslie Marmon Silko ◽  
Careful Analysis ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Non Linear ◽  
Third Person ◽  
Small Things ◽  
The Third Person

Focusing on the novels Ceremony, by Leslie Marmon Silko, and The God of Small Things, by Arundhati Roy, Chapter 2 uses trauma theory to explore how histories of imperial domination refuse to be confined to the past. These two novels invite readers to identify to varying degrees with their traumatized protagonists, holding out the possibility of a resistant and revisionary “history from below.” Ultimately, however, a careful analysis of these two works reveals how literary trauma theorists, in their eagerness to give voice to the voiceless, are too readily taken in by the imaginative construct of the third-person narrator. While individual characters in these novels may suffer the cognitive distortions of trauma, the fragmentary, non-linear account that their readers receive is, in both cases, mediated by the presence of a narrator whose choices are conscious, volitional, and strategic.

scholarly journals A sociology of Covid-19

2020 ◽  
Vol 56 (4) ◽  
pp. 675-683 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steve Matthewman ◽  
Kate Huppatz
Keyword(s):  
Welfare Reform ◽  
Collective Good ◽  
Basic Income ◽  
Social Experiment ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Arundhati Roy ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
The World ◽  
Socially Isolated

The Covid-19 pandemic presents the profoundest public health and economic crisis of our times. The seemingly impossible has happened: borders have closed, nations have locked down, and individuals have socially isolated for the collective good. We find ourselves involved in an unprecedented social experiment. This living laboratory is ripe for sociological analysis. In this introductory article, we provide a broad sociology of Covid-19, paying attention to the production of pandemics and the creation of vulnerabilities. We acknowledge the dystopian elements of the pandemic: it will provide opportunities for ‘disaster capitalists’ to profit, it will enhance certain forms of surveillance, and it will impact some constituencies far more negatively than others (here we pay particular attention to the pandemic’s gendered consequences). Yet there are also resources for hope. We are witnessing altruistic acts the world over, as mutual aid groups form to render assistance where needed. Notions of welfare reform, progressive taxation, nationalisation and universal basic income now seem more politically palatable. Some even predict the imminent demise of neoliberalism. While this may be too hopeful, reactions to the pandemic thus far do at least demonstrate that other ways of living are within our grasp. As Arundhati Roy has said: the virus is a portal, a gateway between one world and the next.

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