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Towards Violence Free Peaceful Futures: The Struggles for an Inclusive and Equitable World

Monday, 16 July 2018: 15:30-17:20
Location: 203A (MTCC NORTH BUILDING)
WG05 Famine and Society (host committee)

Language: Spanish, French and English

 

The session proposes to discuss the emerging sociological issues in struggles for inclusive and equitable futures for a violence free peaceful world. In the light of the broad theme, session calls papers aimed at exploring crucial sociological perspectives by capturing the full import of the acronym “FAMINE” in the following terms:

  • Food insecurity as a consequence of severely diminished purchasing power of sizeable segments of society (famine being the ultimate manifestation of food insecurity) and growing climate-related disturbances; 
  • Alienation on account of discrimination based on caste, color or creed; 
  • Marginalization on account of severely diminishing real incomes; 
  • Inequality based on dysfunctional social systems and the travails of the informal sector; 
  • Negative impact of natural calamities and man-made disasters on vulnerable groups including economic shocks caused by market volatility; 
  • Exclusion from mainstream society based on social and/or economic ostracization resulting in social conflict, unrest and violence.


In addition session invites papers on issues relating to social injustice, marginalization in context of access to food, health services, education, water etc., democratization/decentralisation, the informal sector, natural calamities, the struggle for safer, inclusive and smart cities, regions and communities or any other crucial issue/s leading to “FAMINE” as defined above or long conflicts in the countries or regions leading to famine-like conditions.  Emerging incidents of discontents among various sections of society, social movements of farmers and landless agricultural labours and houseless poor slum dwellers will also be discussed in the session.

Session Organizers:
Ranvinder Singh SANDHU, Guru Nanak Dev University, India and Sunil BANSAL, CRRID, Chandigarh, India, India
Chair:
Abha CHAUHAN, University of Jammu, India
Discussant:
Namita GUPTA, Panjab University, Chandigarh, India
Oral Presentations
Health Care Delivery System in Punjab: An Analysis
Swarnjit KAUR, Panjab University, India; Deepikaa GUPTA, Panjab University, India
Dilemma in Indian Democracy
Ramesh KUMAR, S.D. College, Ambala Cantt, India
LOCAL Area Plans As a Tool for Inclusive City Planning
Sanjukkta BHADURI, SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE, India
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