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Gurgaon Glossaries: Prasad Shetty, Rupali Gupte and Prasad Khandolkar

Posted on February 19, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on KAFILA – COLLECTIVE EXPLORATIONS SINCE 2006:
This guest post by PRASAD SHETTY, RUPALI GUPTE and PRASAD KHANDOLKAR is research work in progress for Sarai Reader 09 @ Devi Arts Foundation, Gurgaon When a new city settles, new systems are…

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Tech That Predicts Farm Disasters(Pilot stage)

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on India Farms Blog:
Farming in India is a brutal business. mKrishi makes it a little easier, by giving farmers predictive data about how to save their farms–and their lives. The farmers are given mobile phones with built-in…

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Kangaroo evolution and climate change in Australia

Posted on February 18, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on Dear Kitty. Some blog:
This video is called Mutant Planet- The Evolution of Marsupials. Talking about Australia and climate change … From Murdoch University in Australia today: Kangaroo evolution maps climate change 2 hours ago The evolution…

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What is resilience?

Posted on February 15, 2014 by Rashid Faridi

Originally posted on Open Geography:
Interesting alternatives if not contradictions in understanding “resilience” in recent publications. Stephanie Wakefield & Bruce Braun understand resilience as a Foucauldian dispositif (apparatus): we understand resilience as a mode of governing the ‘ecological’ city. In Resilient…