January 2012

Environmental ethics in the Hindu Vedas and Puranas in India

  The Indian religious traditions are intertwined with equally disparate cultural, social, linguistic, philosophical and ethical systems that have developed over a vast history, compounded with movement of peoples, foreign interventions, and internal transformations in structures and identities experienced over time. How does one then begin to talk about environmental values and concerns in the Indian religious...

Author(s):   R. Renugadevi      

January 2012

Retracing the concept of the subaltern from Gramsci to Spivak: Historical developments and new applications

  The aim of this paper is to retrace the historical developments and new implications of one of the most disputed concepts in post-colonial theory. The study of the concept of the subaltern deals first with preliminary definitions of this concept as it was initially used by the Italian Marxist political activist, Antonio Gramsci, in his widely known book “Prison Notebooks”. Later, this...

Author(s):   El Habib Louai