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August 28, 2018

Mayilamma: The Life of a Tribal Eco-warrior

McIntyre Amy

By Jothibai Pariyadath. Translators: Swarnalatha Rangarajan and Sreejith Varma. Orient Blackswan. July 2018.

Winner of the 2015 ASLE Translation Grant.

Mayilamma (1940–2007) was an illiterate adivasi woman whose iconic leadership of her community against the unrestrained extraction and pollution of water by Coca-Cola put the nondescript village of Plachimada on the Kerala-Tamil Nadu border on the global map of environmental activism.

Mayilamma: Oru Jeevitham maps the rise of eco-activism in Kerala alongside the realities of consumption, globalisation, widening socio-economic inequalities and the rising ecological burdens borne ...

ASLE Members Participate in Forum on Chinese Leisure Philosophy and Soma-esthetics

McIntyre Amy

The 4thForum on Chinese Leisure Philosophy and Soma-esthetics Opened in Jiangxi Province

The 4th Forum on Leisure Philosophy and Soma-esthetics was held In Bailudong (White Deer Cave) Academy in Jiujiang, Jiangxi Province on July 23-25, 2018. This conference was co-sponsored by Asian-Pacific Leisure Education Research Center of Zhejiang University, Soma-esthetics Research Institute of Shenzhen University, School of Literature and Media of Jiujiang College and Central-China Leisure Culture Research Center of Hubei Polytechnic College. Over 40 Participants attended the conference, among whom are prominent Chinese ...