Tessera
Folgen

Lyla Mehta

@lylamehta.bsky.social

Professor of environment & development; Water, sanitation, climate, covid; human rights; displacement; feminist; anti-fascist; Editor @Natureandspace; UK, India, Austria, Norway. Twitter migrant; also on @Lylamehta@mas.to & LinkedIn. Views my own;

222 Posts842 Follower465 Folgt
EADI@eadi.bsky.social · 2w ago

"The roots of sustainable development are (...) deeply shaped by the legacies of colonisation and coloniality", writes @lylamehta.bsky.social on our blog, suggesting pathways towards decolonising the discipline and calling out remaining challenges. www.developmentresearch.eu?p=2402

The Challenges of Decolonising Sustainability and the Environment in Development Studies

By Lyla Mehta The colonial roots of sustainability  Since the Brundtland Commission advanced the concept of sustainable development in 1987, a lively strand in Development Studies (DS) has eng…

developmentresearch.eu

Lyla Mehta@lylamehta.bsky.social · 2w ago

"Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about." Arundhati Roy on why India is protesting thewire.in/rights/cockr... #India #CJP #Protest

Cockroach Democracy: Unarmed and Dangerous

Can all the people be fooled all the time? Can a country with a population of a billion-and-a-half be dragged around like a corpse forever? It cannot. The Cockroaches are out and about.

thewire.in

✨ A Goddess has NO KING ✨@the-goddess-speaks.bsky.social · 2y ago

Friends, the word “radical” comes from the Latin word meaning “root.” To be politically radical does not mean fringe. To be radical is to focus one’s attention on the *roots* of the systems that govern us, such as Capitalism. Fundamental, systemic change requires radical thinking and action. ✨🌲✨

Bild
We Own It@weownit.org.uk · 3w ago

🚨BREAKING Stockport MP Navendu Mishra signs MP letter opposing Thames Water sewage deal. Ofwat, that makes it 112 MPs standing up against this deal. Do the right thing, drop it. Ask your MP to sign now: vist.ly/5awzb

An image featuring Navendu Mishra MP who has signed an open letter opposing Thames Water's new rules, with a bold red background and colourful accents. The text reads "Navendu Mishra MP has signed our open letter to say NO to Thames Water."
@natureandspace.bsky.social · 4w ago

"Enlivening riverhood through counter-mapping. The ‘evoking the hydrocommons in India and Colombia’" by @edwardhuijbens.bsky.social, Daniele Tubino de Souza, Sarita Bhagat, Juliana Forigua Sandoval, Bibiana Angelica Duarte-Abadia, Jennifer Corinne Veilleux, Rutgerd Boelens, and Leila Harris:

RAV@rav-ev.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Die Genfer Flüchtlingskonvention wird in diesem Jahr 75 Jahre alt. Doch die Rechte geflüchteter Menschen stehen stark unter Druck, wie rechtswidrige Grenzkontrollen oder die Reform des Europäischen Asylstems #GEAS und die damit drastisch ausgeweiteten Möglichkeiten der Freiheitsentziehung zeigen.

Human Rights Watch@hrw.org · 2mo ago

Brazilian judicial authorities in two important recent rulings have affirmed the rights of small landholders and Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon and called on federal authorities to remove illegal occupants. These rulings tell perpetrators that justice is catching up with them.

Brazil: Courts Protect Land Rights in the Amazon

Brazilian judicial authorities in two important recent rulings, affirmed the rights of small landholders and Indigenous peoples in the Brazilian Amazon and called on federal authorities to remove ille...

hrw.org